Lights Up! for Educators

RPAA’s Lights Up! for Educators is a FREE professional development series for performing arts teachers in the greater Richmond area. During each session, participants have an opportunity to engage in lessons and hands-on activities that directly relate to the many performance-based experiences they encounter in the classroom. 

It was so helpful and beneficial to have that time with other educators and tech professionals to better help my kids. The theoretical/lecture parts were done well, engaging, and I loved knowing the “why” behind microphone design and better understanding the lighting electrics. 

-Henrico County Public Schools Educator

Greater Richmond Wolf Trap | Virtual Professional Learning

Explore Greater Richmond Wolf Trap’s virtual professional learning opportunities, designed to equip educators with creative, research-based strategies that foster engagement, learning, and development in young children.

Thursday | June 25, 2026

9:00-10:00 AM: Literacy through the Arts with David Watkins

Using the fundamental concepts of music making, rhythmic patterned song structure learning, notation, and creative word play we marry the concepts of literacy, letter structure, word forming and sentence creation, to invite an atmosphere of incredibly musical students who learn the basics of reading comprehension between the beats!

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Artful Calming Strategies with Erin Mowles

Location

Dominion Energy Center for the Performing Arts. 

Questions? 

Email Jennifer Maddux, Director of Education & Community Engagement, at jmaddux@rpaalliance.com.