Brave Schools
Multi-Day Interactive Theatre Programs
Creative Action’s Brave Schools is comprised of several powerful programs designed for Pre-K through 5th-grade students. Each program engages young people in solving real-world problems through roleplay, puppetry, song, and movement.
2,176
1st-5th Grade students participated
in a Brave Schools program.
31
Different locations welcomed a Brave Schools cast to their campus.
Data from the 2025-26 school year.
Singing Our World with Mr. Freddy
Pre-K • 1 Session • 45 minutes
Designed for our Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 classes, this lively singalong program helps students explore feelings and build community through music, story, and movement. The program is both highly interactive and lots of fun.
Songs and stories are in English, but music and dancing transcend language.
THEMES AND SKILLS: Self-expression through rhythm & movement.
How to regulate BIG emotions. Greater awareness of their bodies.
Welcome Armadillo, Somos Comunidad
Kindergarten • 5 Sessions • 1 hour • English-Spanish bilingual
In this bilingual program (English/Spanish) students journey into an animal sanctuary to meet Jacki the jackrabbit, Henri the hen, and Armando the armadillo. Through songs, movement, and interaction with puppet characters, students help Jacki, Henri and Armando learn how to self-regulate and calm down from big emotions, how to recover from accidents and mistakes, and how to apologize and make things right when they cause harm.
OUTCOMES: This program focuses on the social-emotional skills of identifying and naming feelings, self-regulating from big emotions, and practicing various ways to calm down. Students learn a four-part apology framework and practice the apology with their new animal friends, exploring how to repair harm when accidents and mistakes happen.
THEMES AND SKILLS: Emotions, self-regulation, calming down, apologies, understanding accidents and mistakes, relationships and how we affect each other and care for each other in our classroom community.
The Heroes / Los Héroes
1st Grade • 5 Sessions • 1 hour • English-Spanish Bilingual
In this interactive, bilingual performance, Teaching Artists use role-play, puppetry, song, movement, and games to teach a 4-step conflict resolution process. Students join Sam the Salamander as he sets off on a journey from Barton Springs to Costa Rica to Mt. Kilimanjaro to discover the four steps to peace.
OUTCOMES: Students gain social and emotional skills by learning a 4-step conflict resolution process; to identify, manage, and respectfully respond to their own and others’ emotions. Students rehearse the four steps to peace as they help various characters solve conflicts in their world.
TEKS ADDRESSED: Science (habitats), Social Studies (geography and ecology)
THEMES AND SKILLS: Emotions, self-regulation, calming down, apologies, understanding accidents and mistakes, relationships and how we affect each other and care for each other in our classroom community.
The Courage to Stand
4th & 5th Grade • 5 Sessions • 1 hour
By exploring historical acts of courage, including moments from the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement, students learn to examine the choices, risks, and consequences of intervening to help the target in a bullying situation. This interactive performance teaches young people to creatively investigate the idea of courage as they actively rehearse different ways to act as a “courageous bystander.”
OUTCOMES: Students learn how to safely intervene in a bullying situation and act as a “courageous bystander” while developing social emotional skills, including assessing and navigating risk, listening, communication, critical thinking, empathy, and leadership. Builds relationships and understanding of responsibility for others in a community. Students learn the vocabulary associated with bullying: bully, target, bystander, and courageous bystander.
TEKS ADDRESSED: Language Arts, Social Studies
THEMES AND SKILLS: Anti-Bullying, Conflict Resolution, Empathy, Responsible Decision-Making
Brave Schools
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