Voice & Identity
Acting Out Loud
Acting Out LOUD is a youth development program that uses theater, storytelling, and performance arts to help students explore identity, build confidence, and strengthen social-emotional skills. Through creative expression and collaborative performance, students develop communication, empathy, and leadership while learning to express their thoughts and emotions in healthy ways.
Social Emotional Learning Through Theatre and Creative Expression.
Grades 6-12
The program combines arts education with Social Emotional Learning (SEL) practices to support the whole child, helping young people better understand themselves, connect with others, and navigate real-world challenges.
Student learning
What Students Will Do
Students learn by doing through hands-on activities, creative projects, collaboration, and real-world experiences designed to build skills, confidence, and meaningful connections to the program’s focus.
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Storytelling, improvisation, and performance techniques
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Emotional expression and communication skills
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Collaboration and ensemble-building
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Empathy through character development
Real-world application
Builds transferable skills for leadership, communication, and teamwork across careers in media, performing arts, education, and public-facing professions.
How it runs
Program Specifications
Grades, delivery formats, and the pathways this program feeds: everything needed to check it against a master calendar.
- Grade range
- Grades 6-12
- Category
- Voice & Identity
- Delivery formats
- In-SchoolDuring the instructional day. Pathway programming embedded in electives, advisory, or dedicated blocks.
- AfterschoolAfter dismissal. Sustained weekly sessions that build toward a finished body of work.
- Field TripsScheduled dates. Off-campus visits to studios, venues, campuses, and companies.
- CapstonesEnd of term. Public showcases, exhibitions, screenings, and pitch days.
- Creative pathways
- PerformanceVideo
Student outcomes
What The School Gets Back
Every program is designed backwards from its finish. These are the things that exist at the end of it.
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Increased confidence and public speaking ability
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Stronger interpersonal and communication skills
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Improved emotional expression and self-awareness
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Growth in leadership and collaboration
Related pathways
Where This Program Leads
Programs are how a pathway gets taught. These are the disciplines and career routes this one opens up.
Bring This Program to Your School
Tell us the grades, the block in the schedule, and the number of students you have in mind. We will come back with what Acting Out Loud looks like on your campus.