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What is the place of theater in the French school system, as a tool contributing to the learning and well-being of students? This article aims to answer this question by drawing on a study conducted in Quebec (Dubois & Tremblay 2015) that aimed to establish the place of theater in teaching practices. Taking up their methodology of analysis applied to the French case, the first contribution of this article lies in the discrepancy observed between ministerial recommendations and the training offered to teachers preparing them for the use of theater in schools. Based on this observation, the second part of the article is devoted to the presentation of the results of work in favor of this mobilization of theater in a school context. The practices of using theater in schools are considered in all their diversity, with work that benefits students, both cognitively and motivationally. With the results already available, the practice of theater in schools is advanced as a promising line of research in the service of better student development.