DYHO blog

The Kindergarten students at Scouter's Mountain were struggling with the concept of subtraction.  After my dance residency, their teacher told me they all scored As on their subtraction tests.  

The second grade teachers at Free Orchards Elementary wanted to focus on observations of nature and seeds, but their kids also needed more help with adjectives and adverbs.

The staff at Lenox Elementary  decided to focus on Language Arts for their whole-school residency.   We started with this framework, then tweaked content for each grade.

The Solar System has been a popular choice for 5th grade teachers.  For this class, I was asked to focus on model-building, so our student showcase culminated in  a student-performed, dancing model of our solar system.  

The science staff at Arbor School of Arts and Sciences wanted to prepare their students for an invention challenge.  The teachers asked me to focus on the concepts of collaboration and revision.  The students created dances, gave each other feedback, and performed them.  They created some really cool dances.  (It was awesome!)

At the middle school level, physics can get really fun.  Newton's Laws come to life in small group dance games.  When they are stacked together, these games become student-created choreography.  It might take a while to warm them up, but the reward is great when I see the students begin to shed their inhibitions.