MONDAY NIGHT TEA-TIME

The 2020 school year is unprecedented in a lot of ways, so it’s more important than ever for teachers to maintain strong connections to one-another.

To this end CTEC is hosting a weekly Tea-Time on Monday nights: an informal, judgment-free space for support and encouragement. Drop in whenever you'd like to ask for help, to share ideas, to celebrate your victories, and (every now and then) to indulge in a little light complaining.

Every Monday evening at 7pm (Eastern Time) join us on Zoom. Fall tea-times will run from August 31st to December 7th. Stay tuned for the winter-term schedule.

Join with this link:  https://zoom.us/j/97979925953?pwd=YWNsSCs4dGlxbnp0UnlhYUJQeHZadz09

And the password: CTEC

So brew yourself a tea, stir up a hot chocolate, or maybe even mix together a hot toddy, and connect with your colleagues across the country. 

Since we’re meeting from across country, here are the time in all our national time zones:

• Pacific Time: 4pm

• Mountain Time: 5pm

• Central Time: 6pm

• Eastern Time: 7pm

• Atlantic Time: 8pm

• Newfoundland Time: 8:30pm

Past CTEC Events

2020 COV-ed Summer Series (June & July 2020)

Over the summer of 2020 we faced down a host of new challenges, CTEC presented a series of four tightly focussed events to share strategies and develop plans around in the following areas:

• Teaching Acting Online

• Teaching Movement Online

• Theatre School Seasons in the Age of COVID

• Guiding Art Students to Better Productivity

Virtual Symposium on Online Theatre Education (May 2020)

Just as it was becoming clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to drastically effect our school years, CTEC brought together over 140 educators from 40 programs across Canada, the USA, UK, and India. Together we began working out how to take care of our students, and ourselves, in a year of lockdowns, distance learning, zoom fatigue, and mental wear. While the project before us was daunting, we left knowing that we could get through it, together.

Men’s Nights (2019)

Acknowledging the damage that has been inflicted to theatre students (of all genders) at the hands of men, these intimate gatherings offered male theatre instructors to opportunity to gather and have difficult, and much-needed conversations about toxic masculinity, old behaviour patterns that need to be changed, and how to model a new way forward for our students and our fellow educators.

Inaugural Canadian Theatre Educators’ Conference (2018)

Drawn together by a desire to ask our most burning questions, and to share our most exciting new strategies, 35 educators came together for two days of lectures, workshops, and roundtables. Culminating with a keynote presentation by Tanisha Taitt, The Apple Cart; This Constant Race, or A Classroom in Colour.

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