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Cultural dances for kids from many cultures

January 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Cultural diversity? My classes provide a good visual definition: Students who were born or whose parents were born in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia.  More who moved from Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, California. Some born here in Washington State. Students who speak English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cham, Tagalog, Amharic, Somalian, Cambodian, […]

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Daily challenges to classroom management

October 29th, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Ten minutes into my first class on Monday morning this week (5th grade), Rasheedah let out a bloodcurdling scream. I stopped class to see whether we needed 911. We didn’t. No one had touched her, but apparently, during an exploration of strength and stomping, she thought Cammie was chasing her and reacted as if a […]

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Space — an invitation to dance

October 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

A wide expanse. A clear, clean wooden floor. Sunlight from four high windows. The space invites movement.  Kids rush in, sliding and cartwheeling. When it’s time to dance, they explode in all directions, running, dodging, leaping, careening almost out of control but mostly not. A few pick their way carefully through the channels of space […]

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First week of school: managing dancers

September 7th, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Whew!  and this was only a three-day week. We started Wednesday, and by Friday, we’d covered enough logistics (fire drills, emergency drills, shoe drills, bandaid, bathroom, and tissue drills) to dance!  What a relief. 5th graders — “The Hustle” went over big, providing a quick application for concepts — self and general space and direction […]

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