Category: Case Studies
Developing Leaders to build Cultures of Dance
Outcomes & Process: With support from the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Trust, Luna has been working with former Summer Institute participants to build cultures of dance in Southern California. The goals of this process were 1) to leverage the relationships forged through Luna’s SIs to create professional learning communities of dance education in Southern California. [...]
Read moreBuilding Cultures of Dance in Marin City
Outcomes & Process: Beginning January 2011, Luna has partnered with ASI alumnae Erica Rose Jeffrey and the Marin City-Sausalito Parent Center to develop a family dance program for the community. Impact: This program will allow Marin County to build capacity for dance teaching for ALL children. Torri Campbell, a dancer and therapist, is learning to teach parent-child classes and will take over the program in 2012. Other professionals have already expressed interest in the training, expanding the dance resources available in the region.
Teacher Profile: Erica Rose Jeffrey
Teacher Profile: Erica Rose Jeffrey
Dance teaching artist, San Francisco Bay Area
New Highland Academy
New Highland Academy is the first public elementary school in the state of California to have articulated, year-long, standards-based dance curriculum for EVERY child. Learn more about this Oakland Unified School District dance miracle!
Special Needs Inquiry: Tilden Elementary
Luna’s special needs inquiry team asked “what does creativity look like for children with autism and other special needs?” Five years at Tilden Elementary, a designated inclusion school in Oakland, California, revealed a great deal about bringing standards-based dance to children with and without special needs.
The Making of an MPACT teacher
Dance teaching artist, Rosemary Robertson, completed our MPACT internship at the end of 2009. A third year of supervised teaching has brought parent-child dance classes to dozens of families living in south Alameda County.
Improving Teaching Practice through Action Research
The first phase of Luna’s action-research project on parent-child engagement through dance had a dramatic impact on our dance teaching practice.
