Teaching Artist
Round House Theatre
- Intersections/Free For All
In 2007, Scott joined the Round House Theatre's Education Department. He co-taught Intersections, an introductory program developed for third grade students at Bethesda Elementary and Meadow Hall School, Rockville.
He served as the adult instructor for the Free For All Friday program of open theatre classes for the Silver Spring, Maryland community.
- Young Writer's Academy
Currently, Scott is helping develop the curriculum and lead the Young Writer's Academy, a cooperative venture between RHT, Sligo Middle School and the non-profit group, Passion for Learning.
DC Creative Writer's Workshop
For the past three years, Scott as been director-in-residence for the DC Creative Writers Workshop, a program for junior high school students in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC. Working with Nancy Schwab, founder of the program, he helps the students mount a production of a classical work of theatre, one that they have rewritten in their own words. These production have included Lysistrata, Pericles, Alcestis and Aristophanes' The Clouds.
Northern Regional One-Act Play Festival
In 2008, Scott served as one of four judges of the Virginia High School League Northern Regional One Act Play Festival, held at Lake Braddock Secondary School, in Burke, Virginia.
Teaching Artist Experience
During the past two decades, Scott has gone into District of Columbia public schools as a teaching artist-in-residence. He engaged collaboratively with a number of separate arts organizations, including Head Start, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Choral Arts Society of Washington (Artsaccess) DC, and the Wolf Trap Foundation. In addition, he helped teachers plan instruction and assessment with the goal of facilitating the creative capacity in others. His work in the classroom was featured in the Meyers Foundation Newsletter and the Choral Arts Society ArtsAccess newsletter.
Teaching Artist Training
Scott was a participant at the 2003 and 2004 Summer Forum for Artists and the 2004 DCPS Arts Integration Summer Institute, sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, the Kennedy Center and DC Voice. He participated in music and theatre training developed by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Round House Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, and the Wolf Trap Foundation. In addition to this special training, he holds a Master's degree in Education and an elementary school teaching certificate from the Association Montessori Internazionale.
Published Article:
“The Use of Music and Creative Movement as a Tool in Language Development in Elementary Children” 1/1999 issue of Resources in Education