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By Julie Hammond White, Dance Education Director, University of Southern Mississippi ~~ I am confident that my colleagues in academia would readily agree that our most significant and common goal in the education of our students, regardless of content area but particularly in the field of dance, is to fully prepare them to find success in their chosen profession...

By Cara Lavallee, Dance Director at the Episcopal Academy in Pennsylvania ~~ 鈥淭ech鈥� is such a buzzword these days that the title of this blog post might have made you involuntarily roll your eyes. I can assure you that the specific technology tool I will be sharing can be easily integrated into your dance classroom, and your students will have a blast...

By Debra Giunta, Director of Design Dance in Chicago, IL ~~ Five years into running my business, Design Dance, I was still teaching 15 dance classes per week at studios in the suburbs to supplement my income. I was lucky because even though I was busy, teaching dance still fell under 鈥渄oing what I loved鈥�. The first class of Fall 2013...

By Jenny Sehman, PhD, Director of Dance Education for National Dance Institute (NDI) at the Lighthouse Guild International, NYC ~~ I suffered tremendous insecurity right before teaching my first dance class for students with wide-ranging physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges. The students quickly unburdened me of my self-doubt, however, as their instruction demanded focus, attention, and individualized responses to learning styles, leaving little room for wallowing in worry. They led me ...

By Sonya Monts, Owner and Director of the Dancer's Extension, Saluda, NC ~~ This year has been very difficult for me, and I am grateful for the kind thoughts and support of so many NDEO members who have become my friends and colleagues in dance education. Dance, not only physically moving but also teaching happy children, has been crucial for me to work through the grief over the death of my husband, Thomas, to cancer, and also both of my maternal grandparents...

By Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO Executive Director ~~ 鈥∟DEO joins the arts education community in mourning the loss of James Catterall, who passed away on August 23, 2017 in Los Angeles. We celebrate his life and work, which was pivotal in advancing arts education research, and acknowledge with gratitude his contributions to our 2013 publication Evidence: A Report on the Impact of Dance...

By Hilary Harper-Wilcoxen, MFA ~~ Not that long ago, after teaching for almost ten years, I began to experience a minor existential crisis.鈥ㄢ�↖ felt like an expert in my subject area, Dance in Higher Ed, but didn鈥檛 feel like I was a very good teacher. I realized I hadn鈥檛 been taught to teach, not during my professional career in NYC or even, really, during grad school for my MFA. I wondered if, maybe, I didn鈥檛 really know what I was doing. As I looked around my college and talked to variou...

By Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO Executive Director ~~ NDEO was saddened to learn of the passing of Chuck Davis, widely considered the father of African Dance in America. Davis passed on Sunday, May 14, 2017, at his home in Durham, North Carolina, at the age 80. Davis was a Bessie-award winning dancer, choreographer, and educator...