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Sep 2024
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234: Four Fun Classroom Games to Add to ...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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Students learn better when movement is included in a lesson. In this episode, theater educator Jocelyn Greene teaches us four fun improv games that can work in most classrooms to get students actively engaged and make the learning really stick.

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Thanks to EVERFI and The Wired Classroom for sponsoring this episode.

To watch videos of all four games, visit cultofpedagogy.com/theater-games.

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