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Area: Body Block Builder
Understanding area becomes more meaningful when students can step inside the shapes they’re measuring. In this active lesson, students become “area units” themselves, exploring the…
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Effective Strategies for Arts Integration in Classrooms
At Arts+More, we believe the arts give children a rehearsal space for life. Preparing kids isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about giving them inner tools…
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Locomotor Warm-Up for Integrative Dance Class
This locomotor warm-up builds physical literacy, spatial reasoning, and community cohesion. It makes abstract concepts like pathways, angles, and momentum tangible, all while keeping students…
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Bringing Arts into Learning
Arts Integration in its truest sense: partnering an art form with another subject so students learn both at the same time. That means selecting standards…
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Axial Warm-Up for Integrative Dance Class
Today we’ll explore how axial warm-ups and simple, seated dance movements can transform both classroom atmosphere and student engagement. These are not just “extra” activities;…
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Memory, Meaning, and Momentum: Choreography as Applied Learning
Tibetan Freedom Dance was created through a student-centered choreographic process that emphasized inquiry over preset steps. Dancers began with structured improvisation, responding to music, narration,…
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Meet Kimberly, a creative nonprofit leader who blends arts, education, and strategy to strengthen communities and expand access to storytelling and literacy.
Kimberly began as a young dancer in rural Ohio, where early training sparked a path that led her to study and perform internationally, direct a modern dance company, and develop the movement-based teaching methods that shape her work today.








“I didn’t know much about dance. Now I understand what movement is. I get the foundations, and I know I can use dance and movement to express my emotions and thoughts. I understand the art form now. A lot of people have said Mrs. Jarvis showed us we could do things we never thought we could. People even tell me they feel more comfortable in their bodies now too.”
— Carter Rohr, High School Senior
★★★★★
“ We recently had the opportunity to work with Kimberly Crislip Jarvis as we applied for our company’s nonprofit status. Kimberly was patient, easy to work with, and always willing to take extra time to address our questions and concerns. Her expertise as she guided us through this complex process helped us to complete each step with confidence. We would highly recommend Kimberly as a resource. “
-Kathy Frazier and Deborah Walker, Touching the Future Today
★★★★★
“Kimberly is such a professional. She is so organized, and everything she does is planned. I know Kimberly most for her amazing dance work, but she is a great example of someone who worked in the arts, is successful, and is ready to do great work in any field. Creativity. Organization. Great people skills. She’s got ’em.”
Robb Hankins
★★★★★
“The Teaching Artist in Residence program was a wonderful addition to the Cloverleaf music department. I believe the students benefited tremendously from the experience. It was phenomenal to see the students moving in sync, smiling, and fully engaged as they performed together. This spring concert was truly one of the best yet.
Mrs. April Dalton, 1st Grade Teacher
