Standards-aligned theatre. Every class.
Our residencies use Performers Ready!, a 30-week theatre curriculum from Better Humans Education, aligned to California VAPA standards. It's built on a belief we share: art creates better humans.
What it is
A complete, sequential performing-arts curriculum for TK–6 — inclusive, standards-aligned, and designed so every student is seen and every lesson connects to real life.
Key components
Social-emotional learning
Every lesson builds a safe, trusting room.
Culturally responsive
Content reflects students and cultures around the world.
Standards-aligned
Meets California VAPA standards and the Arts Framework.
Proven at scale
26
California districts teaching Performers Ready!
Curriculum footprint · per Better Humans Education
TK–6
Standards-aligned residency
Differentiated by grade band
Performers Ready! is used across California school districts and reaches thousands of TK–6 students weekly through arts-education partners like CLARA. Chaplins is the working theatre company that brings it into the classroom, taught by a professional artist.
Source: Better Humans Education / CLARA program data — not Chaplins' own metrics.
Why theatre, for every future
Theatre is interdisciplinary training for life. The student who learns to command a room, read a moment, and hold a point of view carries that into any field — the doctor explaining a diagnosis, the architect pitching a design, the leader holding a room. Theatre builds the tools modern industry rewards: communication, collaboration, creative problem-solving, presence.
See the grade-by-grade arc