NextGen Digital Dance Classroom

Going to make a small post before my final one of the semester, which will be a wrap of some end-of-the-year projects. Since I just wrote recently, I thought I would take this time to reflect on what I am thankful for in this journey of dance education. I am blessed to be in a district that fully supports, gives, and grows with Fine Arts I am lucky to get to teach each day at a school that has such a wide-variety of dance courses that provides such a well-rounded dance education opportunity to our students I get to sit next to 3 of the most supportive dance ladies, that share my passion of dedication to our students, and have helped make our program thrive I have some preeeetttyyy supportive amazing IT staff on my campus that are always there for my requests at anytime My administration is so supportive of new ideas we have for bringing top-quality dance programming to Cedar Ridge I have access to so many things that others in my same title/position elsewhere do not, and I do n

We have reached mid-semester and I am just so very thankful for how the year is progressing! A few years ago, I was blessed to be accepted into the NextGen pilot program and was given a bunch of technology and what I felt like was a huge spotlight. Life both at home preparing for and at school felt like I was constantly reinventing myself and my lessons. As the years have passed, I have become more settled, confident, and mindful of the technology in my classroom and I share this so that you know it may not always start out easy or natural, but if you give it a chance, you can reap the many rewards too! Our 1st units all ended with 2 different types of assessments. Students in technique-based classes all performed a culminating combination that had both teacher and student choreography. We film the combinations as performed in small groups for the class. The following day, students watch the videos in class and use a Google Form to complete a self-evaluation. Next we take the video