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Where Social-Emotional Curriculum Takes Center Stage

At the Center for Puppetry Arts, we know that when students feel seen, heard, and understood, they flourish.

Through our partnership with New Insights Intervention, we are bringing Georgia schools a research-informed program that strengthens social-emotional skills through the art of puppetry. By combining evidence-based strategies with immersive, story-driven experiences, we help students build resilience, empathy, and self-regulation in ways that are engaging, memorable, and meaningful.

Why This Program Now?

Today’s classrooms are filled with curious students, many of whom are navigating stress, big emotions, and complex social dynamics. Teachers are being asked to do more than ever.

INSIGHTS Intervention supports schools by:
  • Encouraging emotional awareness and healthy expression
  • Strengthening peer relationships and classroom community
  • Supporting focus and positive behavior
  • Creating a shared language around emotional growth

Through puppetry, students explore real-life challenges at a safe emotional distance. When a puppet works through frustration or models empathy, students can reflect and practice those same skills themselves.

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How It Supports Teachers

This is not “one more thing.”
It is a resource that:
  • Practical, immediately usable strategies
  • Reinforcement of existing SEL goals
  • Engaging methods that capture student attention
  • Support in creating calmer, more connected learning environments
When students are emotionally regulated and engaged, instructional time expands — and classrooms thrive.

What Makes the Center’s Approach Unique?

For decades, the Center for Puppetry Arts has been a national leader in arts-integrated education.

We understand the unique power of puppetry to open hearts, lower defenses, and spark meaningful dialogue.

By pairing this expertise with the structured framework of New Insights Intervention, we offer Georgia schools something truly distinctive: research-backed social-emotional learning delivered through the transformative magic of puppetry.

Standards Snapshot

INSIGHTS Intervention supports Georgia classrooms by aligning with:

Georgia Standards of Excellence (ELA)

Strengthens speaking & listening skills, perspective-taking, character analysis, and collaborative discussion.

Georgia Health Education Standards

Builds emotional awareness, coping strategies, and responsible decision-making.

Georgia School Counseling Standards

Reinforces self-management, relationship skills, and social development competencies.

Georgia Fine Arts Standards (Theatre Arts)

Engages students in character development, role-play, and creative expression through puppetry.

Georgia DOE Social-Emotional Learning Competencies

Supports self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and responsible decision-making.

Curriculum Offerings

Educator Program

  • Six flexible, self-paced learning modules supported by live, facilitator-led virtual sessions designed to fit teachers’ schedules
  • An arts-integrated puppetry approach that strengthens classroom management, builds social-emotional skills, and fosters a positive learning environment
  • Aligned with Georgia Standards of Excellence and SEL competencies, helping teachers provide targeted emotional support and respond to students’ needs and perspectives
  • Comprehensive 50+ page resource guide with lesson plans, handouts, and implementation guidelines to support high-quality instruction

Parent Program

  • Six self-paced learning modules with live, guided virtual sessions designed to fit family schedules
  • An arts-integrated puppetry approach that models social-emotional skills and engages children in interactive learning
  • Aligned with Georgia SEL principles, giving parents individualized strategies to foster empathy, self-regulation, and positive behavior in children
  • Comprehensive 50+ page family resource guide with step-by-step instructions and activities to strengthen parent-child relationships, support shy children, and enhance critical thinking, classroom engagement, and academic skills

Student Program At-a-Glance

  • 10 interactive sessions designed to build social-emotional skills through puppetry
  • Hands-on materials for each student: 28 puppets (7 sets), 28 student workbooks, 28 lollipop puppet pages, 112 popsicle sticks, and 112 pencils
  • Arts-integrated learning using storytelling and performance to make SEL skills memorable
  • Supports classroom engagement and reinforces concepts from the educator-led modules

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