Category: Leadership
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Educators aren’t burned out because they care too much. They’re exhausted by systems built on urgency and self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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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A Christmas reflection on Celebrate Dance (2003) and the Living Fountain Dance Company, honoring community, creativity, and gratitude 22 years later. This reflection is part…
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Teaching artists often move fluidly among these approaches within a single session. That flexibility depends on self-regulation. When calm and grounded, the artist can assess…
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What made that shift possible was more than artistic instinct; it was the brain at work. In recent years, dance science and neuroscience have begun…
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In the long game, your work will come back to meet you—sometimes literally. And when it does, let it remind you of two things: The…
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Life in education is inherently dynamic. For teaching artists in particular, those who move from one residency to another, from one school to another, or…
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Today I’m talking about building good classroom habits, and wrapping up the bad ones that hold us back. After co-teaching with hundreds of educators, I’ve…
