Young Improv: From Improvising to Successful Socializing Summer Camp
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!
Our Promise To You
100% Satisfaction Guarantee:
Due to the unique nature of our fast paced Summer camps, if you’re not 100% IN LOVE with this camp within the first 24 hours, you can either transfer to another camp or get a 100% refund to your family’s YSA account as credit toward a future class.
That’s it! No hassle!
Why Take This Camp?
🎭 “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.
Watch your child strengthen their empathy skills and learn to let go of perfection and embrace adaptability.
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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.
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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.
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Internet connection and a can-do-attitude!
Ages: 9-15
Class size: Maximum- 8 Students
Level: All Levels
Camp Price: $35 per session
How To Enroll
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What Our Parents Say…
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“I don't have the words to express how thankful I am for Ms. Jackson's classes & Ms. Jackson herself. If you have a child that loves to play pretend, you need to enroll them in Ms. Jackson's classes! She is absolutely amazing at what she does & she welcomes with open arms and no judgements. We truly adore her!”
-James
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“I have never seen teachers with more passion, energy, and support than I have at Young Scholars Academy. I don't know how they do it. They are truly the best! These are the best teachers we've ever had!”
-Crystal
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“Ms. Jackson has a knack for letting every kid show exactly what is special about them and making it beautiful. She really helps them grow not, only in acting, but in creativity in general. I could not be happier with Ms. Jackson.“
-Kelly
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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Questions Asked By Fellow Parents
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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!
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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 =)
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We offer a satisfaction guarantee!
If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your camp, you can:
1- Transfer to another equal-value class at no charge (space permitting)
2- Get a 100% refund to a YSA credit
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.
Note- this is a satisfaction guarantee, therefore your child must attend class to qualify.
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We do! We have 3 kinds:
1- Word of mouth: GET UNLIMITED $35 COURSE/CAMP CREDITS!
We know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth.
❇️ At checkout you will get a CUSTOM LINK that you can share with families
❇️ YOU GET A $35 CREDIT TOWARD MORE/FUTURE YSA CAMPS/COURSES every time a NEW family enrolls with your link!
❇️ Families who use your custom link WILL GET 10% off their 1st course at YSA!
❇️ THERE IS NO LIMIT on how many times you can use this with new families!
2- Homeroom Social Club 100% off- When the same student enrolls in 2 courses AND Homeroom Social Club you will automatically discount 100% of the tuition for Homeroom Social Club.
3- Multi-Camp: When you enroll in 3 or more summer camps in the same week, you will receive 10% off of all summer camps!
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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.
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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
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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?