Summer Institute for Educators
Monday, July 20 – Thursday, July 23, 2026
The Hanks Center for Motion Pictures,
Wright State University
Free to all teachers and administrators (preK-12, any subject)
The Summer Institute for Educators is an immersive arts learning experience. Muse’s Institute brings acclaimed creative minds from across the globe to the Miami Valley to spend several days in July exploring and co-creating with teachers. Teachers learn inventive arts-based strategies for cultivating and assessing higher-order thinking skills and utilize these new techniques in their schools. The institute is free for Muse schools and prospective Muse school teachers and administrators.
What You Can Expect During the Institute
Each July, Muse’s Summer Institute for Educators brings acclaimed creative minds from across the globe to the Miami Valley to spend four days exploring and co-creating with teachers. The institute is a place where teachers can tap into their capacities for creativity and artistry, collaborate with their peers, and discover how experiential learning through various artistic disciplines can serve a wide range of subject areas.
The week is carefully sequenced and scaffolded so that each day’s work builds on what comes before. For that reason, Muse strongly recommends that participants plan to attend all sessions.
Activities will be accessible, relevant and fun for teachers of all grade levels, subject areas and artistic proclivity.
Complimentary continental breakfast and catered lunch are provided every day.
Seat Hours & UD Credit Hours
There are two ways for participating teachers to earn seat or credit hours (and you can do both!):
- Earn 25 seat hours for attending the Summer Institute (four days).
- Earn three University of Dayton credit hours for attending the Summer Institute (four days) and participating in two evening meetings and developing and teaching a lesson in the fall.
Additional Discounts
The Summer Institute is free, but teachers from participating high schools and middle schools can earn an additional Muse discount! If a Muse teacher registers for and attends all four days of the institute, their school receives an additional $50 discount off the 2026-27 in-school performance total. This is in addition to the $100 participating schools may receive for scheduling three or more 2025-26 in-school performances by May 29, 2026. Maximum one $50 discount per school for Summer Institute attendance and one $100 discount per school for early scheduling of in-school performances.
Jazz calls us to engage with our national identity. It gives us expression to the beauty of democracy and of personal freedom and of choosing to embrace humanity of all types of people. It really is what American democracy is supposed to be.
Wynton Marsalis
