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Dance activities to support mental health in adolescents in the high school setting
(2022)After 21 years of teaching high school and seeing the increasingly common presence of mental health issues in students, the author arrives at this project to investigate the use of dance to support mental health in ... -
I see you: Dance as behavioral intervention for middle school students
(2022)This research project outlines the creation of five movement/dance activities for use as behavioral intervention strategies in a middle school classroom. The author builds this pedagogical project on concepts and theories ... -
Spatial Design Strategies for Competitive High School and Collegiate Dance Team Routines
(2022)Kristianna Hogan’s research entitled “Spatial Design Strategies for Competitive High School and Collegiate Dance Team Routines” discusses what spatial design strategies dance team coaches might use in an effort to improve ... -
Dance is Second Nature: Movement for Movements—Dance Activism for Transformation, Environmental, and Eco-Dance Æffects
(2022)Site-specific dance may be the intersection of dance education and outdoor education, and screendance may further interconnect them with 21st-century skills. The research has called the author to provide substance showing ... -
Creating a summative grading rubric and feedback form to promote progression in dance at the middle school level
(2022)This paper examines published research in assessments, rubrics and educational frameworks to support the creation of a “summative grading rubric” for middle school dance educators. The hope is that this rubric would then ... -
Creating Peak Experiences: Contemporary Dance Student-Centered Practices for use in a Studio Setting
(2022)This research investigates holistic and student centered teaching practices for use in a contemporary dance studio setting. With examination of published literature in the area of dance curriculum, general education ... -
"But I Don't Dance!": Building a Cross-Curricular Integration Workshop for K-12 Educators
(2022)The author arrives at this project in an effort to ease intimidation expressed by fellow K-12 educators regarding cross-curricular integration of dance in their classroom practices. These feelings of intimidation, paired ... -
Coaching strategies for high school drill team: Developing performance presence and dynamic movement qualities
(2020)PURPOSE: The purpose of this research is two-fold: To create and explore specific coaching strategies for high school drill teams in an effort to 1) enhance their performance of varied dynamic movement qualities, and 2) ... -
Collaborative dance making strategies in a high school dance class: A choreography curriculum unit
(2020)This paper is a description of dancemaking practices for high school dance students promoting collaborative strategies in a choreography unit. This unit is informed by the key concepts from established research in the ... -
Lived experiences of teacher stress and perceived teaching success from four dance educators
(2020)PURPOSE: To understand the ways in which teachers describe moments of stress and their perceived success as a dance educator in the secondary level; to analyze participants’ descriptions of teacher stress and success in ... -
Activities and teacher practices for the high school dance classroom to promote the development of self-directed learners
(2020)STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: In this professional project I create and explore dance teaching practices and classroom activities that seek to support the development of self-directed learners. I implement, reflect upon, and ... -
Supporting the development of student professionalism in the middle school dance classroom
(2020)STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The purpose of this research was to explore my classroom policies, procedures, rules, and strategies I use to reinforce and support expectations of professionalism for middle school dance 2 students. ... -
Teaching strategies developed from a creative movement perspective in support of social emotional skills in early childhood students with autism spectrum disorder
(2020)PURPOSE: The purpose of this research is to create a set of teaching strategies for children with ASD that support the development of social-emotional skills outlined in Conscious Discipline from a creative movement ... -
Jazz dance learning and culturally relevant pedagogy: Developing a curriculum for 6-14 year old students in a studio setting
(2020)STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The goal of this research project was to develop a curriculum for use in a studio-based jazz dance class for 6-14 year olds that promotes somatic awareness. My intention was to expand my teaching ...
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