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  • What Matters Most to our Children

    December 29 by Erin Kurt What do you think matters most to your children? You driving them to lessons and practices, or is it the smile and hug you greet them with after school? If you guessed the latter, you are correct. Sixteen years of teaching and giving the same assignment every Mother’s Day has led…

  • Summer Dance Camp

    This will be the first year that I’ll be teaching a Summer Dance Camp  Please pass the word! Directional Dances: In dance, like music, there are movement scales for learning and perfecting technique.  In music we are familiar with Do, Rae, Me, Fa, So, La, Te, Do.  In dance the movement scale is up, down,…

  • Medicate with Movement

    Next week will complete the 3rd year of MOVING TO MATH.  (Teaching elementary math through dance.)  I’m eager to share the results of our fitness testing.  This is the first year I added fitness testing to the task list.  I believe if we trainers, PE teachers, and dancers do not get kids hooked on physical…

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