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Full Speed Ahead

As stated last week, this post will be a little brief. All classes have begun their adventure into a February Spring Show season and were excited to hear their music and start learning their dance!! Ballet classes joined in for Round 2 of the PIE Grant measurements. They had some of the similar celebrations and disappointments of Jazz. Some of their measurements had made a dramatic gain since the beginning of the year. And some, had made no change or a small decline. This has both given them encouragement for their hard work where they thought that maybe no gain had been made and gave them direction on those areas that needed additional work. Last week we had 3 visitor from Texas Cultural Trust and Resources for Learning come and observe our Dance & Media classes as they started Module 3. This week we finished the lesson by sharing some fun videos made from Magisto. They had used social media to learn the Merengue, then as a group created their own Merengue dance. Then they u

Happy New Year!

I hope this post finds you well rested and digging in for a great second semester! Last week I had no post as I was in Houston at the Texas Dance Educators' Association annual Convention. I was blessed to be asked to present multiple workshops including Technology in the Dance Classroom and A Day in the Life of a NextGen Classroom. It was so great to have a chance to share all of the amazing work my students have been doing! As I have now returned to the classroom, I realize the posts will be minimal the next few weeks. Similar to fall semester, we have a show in the next 5 weeks and, as it should be, our lessons and priority will shift to having students ready and confident to perform on stage.  This week Jazz 4 used the iPad's to take their next set of measurements for the PIE Grant Fit and Flexible Minds and Bodies project. Students were happy to see improved numbers already!  Dance and Media students explored Mindmup to start a mind map of all of the