Educational Programs

Everett develops educational programs that address community needs, successfully implementing programs in public schools & community settings since 1988.

Programs developed Include:

  • Healthy Habits: Think For Yourself (1989-1993), anti-tobacco campaign

  • The Marriage of Art and Science (1998-2012), which utilizes performance to teach science concepts

  • Breaking Down Science (2001-2012), teaching physics concepts through breakdance

  • Speak It Out (2002-04), an anti-bullying curriculum

  • Written In The Air (2005 - 2012), teaching conflict resolution through performance and interactive games

  • Team building programs for public school staff

  • Youth Freedom Project (2015-16), encouraging young people to create performances around issues affecting their lives

  • The Police/Youth Collaboration (2014-19), bringing justice-involved youth and police together to break down stereotypes and find common ground

  • Arts adaptations of the clinical program Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in Schools CBITS (2016-19), which was implemented in 4 Providence public middle schools to address symptoms of PTSD in students

  • Everett has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services’ Arts Initiative since 2012, providing education and training in theater, dance and multi-media art to justice-involved youth.

Everett artists have worked closely with school social workers and professional clinicians through many of these programs, delivering workshops in partnership and developing curriculum that is clinically supported. Additionally, Everett’s teaching artists are a majority people of color, come from low-income areas across RI, and have experiences similar to those of their students. This helps create highly effective learning experiences where students are made to feel less alone and comfortable enough to engage creatively with peers and adult mentors.

Educational Performance Appearances Have Included:

American Museum of Natural History – New York, NY

Museum of Natural History – Cincinnatti, OH

North Carolina Arts & Science Museum – Durham, NC

American Repertory Theatre – Boston, MA

NASA “12 Man in Space” Symposium – Washington, DC

Rhode Island School of Design Museum – Providence, RI

Providence Performing Arts Center - Providence, RI

Various Elementary, Middle and High Schools across the country

Current Educational Work:

Everett’s educational programs have positively impacted countless young people for over thirty years. Their creative team has continued to listen young people - developing programs ready to support them where they have the most need in that moment. Currently, Everett is creating an arts based social/emotional learning curriculum where students engage creatively and safely with their inner struggles - exploring and expressing difficult emotions, internal thoughts and external behaviors related to trauma, PTSD, anxiety and more. The program had a successful pilot run with a group of young men under the care of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Everett is now working with multiple Providence Public Schools on introducing the program to their student populations.