Dance On! Folk Dancing to Enhance your Classroom and School Climate

Through a full day of folk dancing, we will explore ways that dance can be used to teach general music standards, to enhance social and emotional learning, and to strengthen community in our classrooms and our buildings. Sessions will include a variety of American folk dances and a toolkit of ways to quickly and easily get students dancing -- and joyfully so. Circles, longways sets, squares, and play parties will be included, along with real and time-tested solutions to common dance pitfalls. Be prepared to dance, to laugh, to gain new repertoire, and to tweak your view of how dancing can fit into your lessons. Rather than learn-some-dances, we will learn-by-dancing.