Spring has sprung! It is officially the busy season for so many students and parents. Spring showcases, state testing, final projects, and exams all crammed into the same time period that we had during some lazier chill weeks in January. So how do we get it all done? We plan, organize, and enjoy the ride. This 6 weeks, between my 6 (different) classes we will/have been studying anatomy of bones and muscles, injuries, injury prevention, and choreography. If you were to drop in to my classes at anytime in the last few weeks, you may have found students finishing a tap unit; watching an Anatomy presentation; completing choreography exercises; interacting with a Dance Specialist Physical Therapist guest speaker; preparing a Broadway Hairspray dance for the Council of the Arts that will be meeting at Cedar Ridge this coming week; doing a ballet lyrical unit; starting student choreography projects; preparing preschool dance lessons to teach at Gattis Elementary this coming week; preparing
This blog will be following the journey of the students in a NextGen Digital Dance Classroom at Cedar Ridge High School in Round Rock ISD, taught by Karen Searles.