curriculum integration

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Math In Your Feet

December 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

I may be a dance specialist, but I’m no step dancer! Nonetheless, it’s been great to see my students working on precision footwork, thanks to Malke Rosenfeld’s Math in Your Feet unit, published last year in the Teaching Artist Journal (one of the sources I count as part of my Professional Learning Community). Through a […]

John Bohannon, Black Label Movement & big ideas

December 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Wow. This is fabulous. If your pursuit has to do with dance, education, science, learning, humanity, a new world order, WHATEVER, then you’ll enjoy this post from TED: John Bohannon & Black Label Movement. Thanks for passing it along, Maya Soto!

ALT/space: Teaching Artist stories from the field

August 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

ALT/space — a lovely new site for ideas & inspiration! ALT/space is a project of the Teaching Artist Journal — an arena for Teaching Artists to share stories of their students, moments of learning, questions and obstacles, reflections, and successes. I’m honored to be part of ALT/space, representing dance education in a public school setting […]

A great resource: Bad Wolf Press

June 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · resources

It’s great to find a resource that really helps! Every March I have to start pulling together 6 or 7 dances for an end-of-year performance. Every school has its own schedule and rhythm for performance — based on student demographics, the focus of the school, the parent population, logistics, and money — so I operate […]

Letting go

May 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Today’s horoscope — Today is an 8. Write down your thoughts, even if they don’t make any sense, to make space for the new. You may discover that your skills are worth more than you thought. On the days when I read my horoscope, my engagement with it lasts all of about 10 seconds, as […]

Colonial Dance Resources

March 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · dance arts integration into academic subjects

Looking for resources on Colonial dances? Here are suggestions from NDEO (National Dance Education Organization) members from across the country**: The Colonial Williamsburg website has a rich resource teacher site. from Eileen Sheehan, Illinois “Colonial Singing Games and Dances,” produced by the Williamsburg Foundation, has dances which are notated and easy to follow. from Elly […]

Resources for integrating dance with curriculum

December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · dance arts integration into academic subjects

There are a lot of dancing minds out there at work, developing great ways to integrate dance with curriculum. Here are a few resources, shared via email on NDEO’s K-12 Special Interest Group Forum.* These resources offer some nitty gritty about how-to’s & what-do-you-need?’s… Books: Teaching the 3Rs through Movement Experiences, by Anne Green Gilbert; […]

Dance finds a place in math class

November 26th, 2010 · 6 Comments · dance arts integration into academic subjects

This email from a kindergarten teacher (when she discovered that dance found its way into her math lesson) was a real upper… “Just wanted to let you know that yesterday in math, [my class] made a bar graph of our favorite school activities. The winner was dance! 10 kids chose dance. Come see the bar […]

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Pipe dream: integrating dance & the compass rose!

August 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Whoa! This, via Corey Mahoney, is cool. The kids would love it! Let’s see… …it’d be most appropriate for the 4th & 5th graders… but the boys probably won’t dig the skirt idea too much, so I need a boy-version of swishy clothing, hopefully with one-size-fits-all for both boys & girls. Then I’ll need 32 […]

Transition back from vacation…

April 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

A good vacation is when you have no one but yourself to manage. It’s been a good vacation! As I brought up my lesson plan template for planning this coming week’s classes, I realized why the coming weeks (and months) have been looming large in my mind. Starting Tuesday (tomorrow I’ll be teaching a day […]

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