Young Improv: From Improvising to Successful Socializing

Prepare to be amazed as you watch your differently-wired kiddo make real friends, explore this unique content, grow under the guidance of this expert mentor, and be seen in all their glory!

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Why Take This Course?

This course is also available for parents!

🎭 “Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”-- Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

Acting improvisation is simply another art form that gives students a chance to stretch their creativity and reveal who they are to their mentor, their classmates and to themselves.

Improv gives us an opportunity to:

  • Explore imagination

  • Gain confidence and develop stage presence

  • Take on different points of view and strengthen empathy skills

  • Play together in a safe space and take creative risks

  • Practice turning “mistakes” into opportunities

  • Let go of perfectionism and let things be what they are

  • Practice embracing the unknown in order to learn adaptability.

Practicing improv prepares young actors for the stage but also for day-to-day life.

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  • 🎭 “Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”--Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

    Acting improvisation is simply another art form that gives students a chance to stretch their creativity and reveal who they are to their mentor, their classmates and to themselves.

    Practicing improv prepares young actors for the stage but also for day-to-day life.

    Improv gives us an opportunity to:

    ✅ Explore imagination

    ✅ Gain confidence and develop stage presence

    ✅ Take on different points of view and strengthen empathy skills

    ✅ Play together in a safe space and take creative risks

    ✅ Practice turning “mistakes” into opportunities

    ✅ Let go of perfectionism and let things be what they are

    ✅ Practice embracing the unknown in order to learn adaptability.

    This class offers an opportunity every week to practice developing and strengthening the ability to respond and improvise in the moment through a variety of fun and engaging exercises.

    As students do so, they will learn the basics of creating a character for the stage: Variety in Voice, Body Consciousness, Emotion and Story in a Character.

    Variety in Voice

    We learn about using the voice to create a character, starting with high/low, fast/slow and accent experimentation. All exercises mimic the teacher modeling so students will feel comfortable (basically, I'm so silly that no one can worry about looking silly themselves!)

    Body Awareness

    We learn how to use one's body to convey a character. How does this person walk? What do they do with their hands? How would they stand/sit/move, etc? Students will practice body consciousness in their improv exercises.

    Emotion and Story in a Character

    We'll talk about how we FEEL when we're a particular character and we will add a story to explain who the character is. When we learn how to uncover the emotional motivation of a character, we also learn to better understand our own emotional motivations.

  • Prepare to be amazed as your child takes the stage to gain confidence, develop stage presence, strengthen empathy skills and learn to let go of perfection and embrace adaptability.

  • Internet connection and a can-do-attitude!

 

Ages: 9-15 & Parents 18+

Class size: Maximum- 8 Students

Level: All Levels

Price Per Session: $39

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Meet Your Mentor

Ms. Jackson

I've been teaching theatre for 26 years and I was also a children's performer for ten of those years. I own a theatre program and I put on a show after every 20 hours of instruction (almost 60 shows in six years!).  

I believe EVERYONE needs and wants to be creative and expressive. Sydney Clemens says "Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else" and my goal is to allow students a safe place to explore and shine and comfortably be themselves.

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Our Promise To You

Satisfaction Guarantee:

If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with this course within the first 24 hours, you can either transfer to another course, get a 100% refund credit toward a future class or get a 75% money-back.

That’s it! No hassle!

In 3 years and over 500 families served, only 2 families have ever used this.

*more info in FAQs below

Questions Asked By Fellow Parents

  • 4 KEY things:

    1- A focus on the positive! We don’t focus on what students aren’t doing, we support what they are and we know the rest will come. We develop strengths, interests, and relationships. We build students up so they can build a better world! And do it with the new friends they make in our program!

    2- Like-minded neurodivergent peers. Our asynchronous students need one another and YSA is a safe haven for these kiddos to connect around their asynchronies, quirks, and interests. We’re a place where they can be their authentic selves and make friends while doing so!

    3- Passionate, masterful neurodivergent mentors who have walked the walk and can authentically validate and support your child with personal experience and care AND expertise as we all have advanced masters + degrees

    4-Content your students care about taught in a way they love! We offer the courses they need to be taking, not the ones they’re required to take.

    Come by and see for yourself!

  • Please don’t confuse reactive “distance learning” and virtual enrichment programming. After all, a student who is completely fried from a boring zoom class is often quick to pick up a tablet or phone, right?

    Our courses are not at all the same animal =)

  • We offer a satisfaction guarantee!

    If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your course, you can:

    1- Transfer to another equal value class at no charge (space permitting)

    2- Get a 100% refund to a YSA credit

    3- Get a 25% money-back to your credit card

    Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first day of camp. After 24 hours after the first class begins there will be no refund of tuition.

    The non-refundable 25% deposit is critical as it allows us to determine which courses we can run.

    Note- this is a satisfaction guarantee, therefore your child must attend class to qualify.

    *Note- Yearly courses like AP require a 30-day notice

  • We do! We have 3 kinds:

    1- Word of mouth: 25% off- we know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth. When you help another family enroll in a YSA class and they name you at checkout, you will get 25% off the cost of the course you’re currently enrolled in once they stay past the refund period. Note— this applies to all regular courses, BUT only applies to the first month of membership courses.

    2- Multi-sibling: 10% off- We believe in supporting whole families and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is! When you sign-up 2 or more kiddos you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

    3-Multi-course: 10% off- To fully serve your family, we hope to provide your child with all the courses they dream of taking! To make this more affordable, when you enroll in 3 or more classes, you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

  • Of course!

    As we like to say, if you’re on our site, you’re in the right place.

    Our programming is for students who are not being supported or challenged enough in school.

    If you have an asynchronous kiddo who you know has strengths and struggles, our courses are for your child.

  • 2e students experience such asynchronous development that it proves difficult to have hard age limits.

    We often evaluate students on a case by case basis =)

    Please email us and we’ll discuss: sam@youngscholarsacademy.org

  • All of our programs are 100% virtual. This allows us to bring together the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent students of the world, connect them, and nurture them!

    Your child may very well enter a 6-person class with 5 other students from 5 different states/countries!

    Cool, right?