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Tech Contact: Patty Petrey Dees
Email: distancelearning@puppet.org
Phone Number: 404.881.5117

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Center for Puppetry Arts

1404 Spring St.
Atlanta GA 30309
United States
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Contact: Patty Petrey Dees
Email: distancelearning@puppet.org
Phone: 404.881.5117

Description:
The Center for Puppetry Arts uses the latest technology to offer nationwide Distance Learning programs for PreK-12. Hands-on puppet building workshops are conducted via videoconferencing and are tailored to specific classroom topics and curriculum. The arts are infused with science, social studies, language arts and other disciplines to create a dynamic, interactive virtual classroom for a virtual field trip experience. Programs complement national curriculum standards in language arts, social studies, science, math and other areas. The Center provides a comprehensive study guide and materials list for most programs.

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Educator Comments:
Center for Puppetry Arts is a wonderful children's program.

Puppetry center is very interactive, informational and interesting for students!

CPA provides a wonderful variety of programs that support our curriculum and their presenters do an excellent job of engaging children in the activity. They always adjust the program to the specific grade level.

Center for Puppertry Arts are the TOPS!

Center for Pupperty Arts have an excellent Vitural Field Trip program. The staff is very accomidating, flexible with working with teachers on the adaptions to the program, willing to talk prior to the date registered, and adheres to students with physical and mental disabilites.

The center for Puppetry Arts gives outstanding distance learning events. They are engaging and interactive. The students love them! We have tried several different programs at different levels and they have all been wonderful. THe presenters work with you to tell you which ones would be most appropriate also!

The Center for Puppetry Arts is a great provider for the lower grades. We have made puppets with 1st & 2nd graders and they love it!

Good story presentation; clear directions for making puppet; great extension with other versions of Gingerbread stories

The Center for Puppetry ARts is simply AMAZING!

Students always love the puppets they make during the Center for Puppetry Arts programs and the presenter, Deborah, is so energetic and fun!

These gals are great to work with and excellent at communicating before, during and after the IVC!

Well done, well thought out programs.

Center for Puppetry Arts sessions do a wonderful job of combining interactive, hands-on art projects with science or social studies content.

The puppets and shows are just wonderful... this is a very fun actvity to do with kids

They are attentive to student questions and extremely professional.

The Center for Puppetry Arts offers a wide variety of programs that correlate with subjects across the curriculm and grade levels. They offer our students the opportunity to meet actual musicians/artist as well as understand how music and art reflect different cultures. They are happy to adjust their programs for different grade levels and meet the specific needs of our classroom teachers. They are a pleasure to work with and reasonably priced for school budgets.

The Center for Puppetry Arts is also great. We love their presenters! They go out of their way to make sure we are happy with the sessions.

The Center for Puppetry Arts has such unusual lessons for all grade levels. The staff is wonderful to work with and the activities presented throughout the lesson are such fun for our students.

Great programs & excellent presenters

This was a very educational experience for my class! They loved making the spiders - and it really helped in our discussions regarding insects & spiders!

Center for Puppetry engaging for the students, very hands on.

We have always experienced good conferences with the Puppetry Center.

Loved the puppets!

Our students and teachrs were appreciative of the materials that were sent to them before the session began. This allowed all students to participate.

Teachers and students love the programs from the Center for Puppetry Arts. Wonderful presenters who interact well with the students who enjoy making the puppets as they learn.

They were easy to work with and presented a customized program to meet a specific need. This flexibility combined with a high quality program made them a positive choice.

Center for Puppetry Arts is great. The students love their programs.

Excellent program on butterflies!!!

Center for Pupperty Arts-hands-on; materials delivered in advance, teachers know exactly what to do and when. Excellent presenters.

Very thorough in content and helpful when glitches arise in connectivity. Always an enjoyable experience ! Denise Chonski Art Teacher

The Puppet center Offers from pre-k to HS and adapts for the kids they are meeting

Super "Gingerbread boy" shadow puppet program. I love the different versions you showed this year! It went along great with my Gingerbread unit.

Great videoconfs - hands on!

I have had two classes with Center for Puppetry Arts. They are VERY accommidating. They are personable and not intimidated by individuals who have severe disabilities. They are flexible with changing the program so that the lesson meets the needs of my students. They are very easy to work with because they are easy to contact (via phones and emails)

The children learn about puppetry and enjoy using their imaginations and new found knowledge to create a puppet that follows with our curriculum.

Salem the talking cat and the spider puppet programs are fabulous

Very easy to work with and they always have good programs.

Center for Puppetry Arts does a great job combining hands on puppetry making with curriculum regarding the topic of the conference. Center for Puppetry Arts is a parent and teacher favorite. As a distance learning coordinator, they are a favorite of mine because they are easy to work with.

The Center for Puppetry Arts is very hands on and keeps students engaged.

Center for Puppetry Arts-students enjoy doing the activities and programs are very informative.

The Center for Puppetry Arts helped students make the most adorable puppet that went along with a Rainforest program. Students had SO much fun!

Center for Pupperty Arts provides programs that are consistantly high quality and the staff is easy to work with. The programs are both entertaining and educational.

Students at the Center for Puppetry Arts programs have so much fun they hardly know they are learning a lot. Making puppets along with excellent content that meets content standards makes this a favorite with students and teachers.

Exciting

Very interactive! Students loved the hands on activities.

The programs provided by the Center for Puppetry Arts are outstanding! Not only for students, but also for families. We have participated in night time events with our students and their parents. The response has been very positive. The content is focused and substantially supports our content expectations.

The Puppetry Center presented to a remedial class and the kids kept on task.
Great projects and great presenters.

This was used with preschoolers. They were given materials to interact with. It was geared to preschool--keeping them active and a short presentation so they could attend during the VC.

I like the programs

"The Gingerbread Man" was a wonderfully engaging program presented to our first graders. Any one who can keep 1st graders on track is pretty darn good in my book!

THE PUPPETRY ARTS PROGRAM IN Atlanta went out of their way by keeping in contract before the event took place. We received a detail lesson plan before the event occur. They were great!!!!

The center for puppetry arts provided valuable classes for my advanced theatre classes.

The Center for Puppetry Arts in Georgia offered an excellent opportunity for students to experience a shadow puppet show, to create puppets of their very own, and interact with a professional puppeteer. I would recommend this to anyone interested in puppeteering. Shaun Moritz Learning Enrichment Specialist

The center for puppetry offered classes that would enhance my students knowledge of theatre.

Center for Puppetry Arts was delightful. I used them as a demo connection during a Fine Arts Conference we recently had at our Education Service Center. Many teachers attended and observed the demonstration of programming. They were all extremely impressed and are beginning to incorporate more art activities in their science and social studied instruction. CPA folks were delightful to work with and customized the presentation and the scheduling to meet our needs in Huntsville, TX.

I used the Center for Puppetry Arts this year. We used them with a Young 4's program and the children enjoyed it very much.

The Center for Puppetry arts is the best programming around for early elementary. Great programs, materials and instruction.

Puppetry Arts - great programs, very interactive.

The Center for Puppetry Arts masterfully combines content and art that engages students in interesting learning exeriences. Sessions can be a lesson in methodology for any teacher. Joe Cataline, Educational Technology Specialist, Linden Public Schools

The Center for Puppetry Arts has wonderful programs for students. They are very interactive and keep the student's attention. They provided wonderful materials for the students to make a puppet while learning at the same time! - Audra May Network Facilitator South Central KS Distance Learning

Center for Puppetry Arts always does an excellent job engaging younger learners with its program offerings.

Ctr. for Puppetry Arts is one of the best sites for elementary students. Their presenters are excellent and their hands-on activites, especially the one with butterflys and moths reallget the children involved.

The Center for Puppetry Arts was a wonderful experience. With them we were able to build Butterfly Marionettes - it was a very clever design. Each child was proud of their project. While we worked we learned all about butterflies. We enjoyed this experience very much. Lissa Romaine Director, Giggle Children's Theater

Center for Puppetry Arts is by far the best VC we've done. Excellent connection. Very educational and lots of interaction with the students. Jill Copeland Campus Technology Specialist

The Center for Puppetry Arts gives an informative, entertaining and hands-on experience for the children. There are appropriate plans and ideas given to prepare the classroom for the distance learning.

I have conducted many programs at my schools with the Center for Puppetry Arts and have never been disappointed.

The Center for Puppetry provided students with a desire to learn more.

The Center for Puppetry Arts provides an extremely capable presentation staff, with EXCELLENT pre-conference materials. The programs are highly interactive, engaging and so much fun for the children. These programs are well aligned to our Ohio content standards, and my teachers love their programs. Michele Carlisle, TCHESC

Both programs from the Center for Pupperty were awesome. My children enjoyed learning about and making the puppets. The Center sends specific instructions so that I was prepaired and ready to go, no running around looking for supplies. Lisa Babcock, 1st grade teacher.

The Center for Puppetry Arts provides a unique way to share information with hands-on classes for students.

The Center for Puppetry Arts engages the students well.

The Puppetry Arts Center always presents a program that engages the children with information and fun. They always enjoy creating the puppets. Visiting with Knights from the past, was the activity we enjoyed. (2 years ago). The class enjoyed exploring the world of knights by seeing real armor. It is something they would not have seen in everyday life.

The Center for Puppetry Arts had one of the best long distance learning programs I have used in my classroom. The students were actively involved and enjoyed it immensely.

Center for Puppertry Arts program offers young children an opportunity to explore the history and funtion of puppertry. They really enjoy making the Gingerbread Boy puppet

This information was last updated on: 05/24/2010