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Education Programs

Audio Production Youth Workshop

Student from TOPS in the Jack Straw studios, May 2006.
Photo by Dean Wong.

Jack Straw productions has a commitment to art and technology education for all ages. We have implemented a wide range of classroom, in-studio, and learning programs for children and adults. Through our radio drama, music, and creative audio production programs, students work with professional artists to learn about the arts and to develop ways to express themselves creatively.

Find out more about our different school programs.

Jack Straw has developed partnerships with a variety of community organizations, artists, and schools to create and implement innovative and exciting intergenerational, curriculum-based, hands-on educational opportunities for kids.

Our Art & Technology Programs take place at schools, in our studios, and in community centers. Students produce final projects in the form of radio shows, sound collages, professional music and/or spoken voice recordings, historical audio documentation, oral history recordings and more!

The Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements are completely integrated into all of our programs.

We welcome your questions and/or proposals for new and different educational programs. Please email education@jackstraw.org for more information.


In the News

West Seattle Herald highlights
Jack Straw education programs, artist

The West Seattle Herald published a feature on our recent school project with students from West Seattle Elementary. Teacher, theater artist and Jack Straw Writers Program alumnus Laurel Ann White led the students through voice and performance activities in the studios. You can read the feature online here.


Audio Production Workshops

We offer a variety of audio production, studio recording, and audio art classes. Examples of past courses include Introduction and Intermediate Pro Tools, Producing Radio Features, Sound Design and Soundscaping, Intro to Studio Recording, and Microphone Demonsration. Click here for class descriptions.

Current Projects

Jack Straw Productions, Writers in the Schools (WITS), and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio present

The War Poems Project

Seattle Poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Merna Ann Hecht worked with FosterHigh School students in Tukwila, WA, who have experienced war to write poems about war's repercussions. We present these poems for April, National Poetry Month, and to mark the fifth year of the Iraq War.

The War Poems Project programs will be broadcast during the KBCS "Daily Planet" show on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4:30pm from Monday, April 7 to Wednesday, April 30; and during the KBCS "One World Report," 6-7 pm, on Thursday, April 17 and 24.

Since 1994, Writers in the Schools (WITS) has brought professional writers to public schools to inspire students' understanding of the human experience through reading, writing, and performance. WITS writers-in-residence work with teachers to create a curriculum that gives students an entire class each week to create, present, and receive peer feedback on their writing.

KBCS 91.3 FM is a listener supported, non-commercial, community radio station, operated as a public service of Bellevue Community College. "The Daily Planet" features music that spans continents, genres, and musical styles. "One World Report" is a weekly, community-centered, hour-long news and public affairs show produced by KBCS volunteers. The program airs Thursdays at 6 pm.

Radio Shorties: 2006 Seattle Center Academy
Listen to Sounds of the 2006 Seattle Center Academy

Blind Youth Audio Project and other accesible projects

Hamilton International Middle School




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