Through the Lens of Improvisation: Dance Educators Find Voice and Agency through Transformative Conversations
Jochelle Pereña – Journal of Dance Education
What’s in a Conversation?
Jochelle Perena – In Dance
Dance Play is Serious Business – Young Minds Require Freedom
Nancy Ng – InDance
Supporting One Educator at a Time, Over Time
Jochelle Perena and Patricia Reedy – InDance
In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018
Patricia Reedy – InDance
Exploring Power and Agency in Early Childhood Dance
Aiano Nakagawa – InDance
Unleashing Dance’s Potential
Nancy Ng – InDance
Employing Teaching Artists: How Luna Dance Institute Strives to Professionalize the Field
by Cherie Hill – Teaching Artist Guild Quarterly
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: Inclusive Dance in Oakland
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.