Early Childhood and Family Dance
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Early Childhood Dance & Social Emotional Learning – September 16, 2023
$190.00How does dance intersect with children’s sense of self, and their connection with others? Discover dance activities that support young children’s exploration of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, interactions and relationships. Taught through a culturally responsive lens, this interactive workshop centers around cultivating belonging, inclusion and community through creative dance play.Saturday, September 16, 2023
1-4pm Pacific
via Zoom
$190Free for OUSD, BUSD and MCOE teachers. Limited tuition assistance available for those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org for more information or for registration questions.
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Love, Move, Play: Dance in Early Childhood – Winter 2024
$360.00Explore the essential nature of dance and movement for young children in this newly extended six-week course. Investigate early childhood development and neurocellular patterns in an embodied way, and explore how the elements of dance can be used to support young children’s need to move. Learn to extend spontaneous dance experiences, facilitate parent-child interactions using dance, integrate dance into emergent curriculum, activate circle time and create stand-alone dance lessons with student choice and voice at the center. Develop your skills of observation. Learn how to provide access to dance for all students. Step into this whole-self art form to increase joy in your classroom. This course is for all who work with young children. No prerequisite. Designed as a virtual course and taught via Zoom.
Facilitated by Nancy Ng and Jochelle Pereña, with dance in Special Ed and Inclusion guest teacher Alisa Rasera.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators whose administrators do not cover PD. Please contact Jochelle jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org for more information.
20 January-9 March, 2024
Saturdays
9:30am-12pm Pacific
via Zoom6 Saturdays:
20 January
27 January
3 February
24 February
2 March
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Early Childhood Dance & Math – October 14, 2023
$190.00How does a child’s kinesphere and relationship to self and others relate to Geometry and Measurement? What do Number Sense and Pre-Algebra look like through the embodied movement of the young child? This interactive workshop explores play-based dance activities that support sorting, classifying, adding together/taking away, patterning and spatial awareness through the lens of culturally relevant teaching practice.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
1-4pm Pacific
via ZoomFree for OUSD, BUSD and MCOE teachers. Limited tuition assistance available for those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org for more information or for registration questions.
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Early Childhood Dance & Literacy – December 9, 2023
$190.00Description to come!Saturday, December 9, 2023
1-4pm Pacific
via Zoom
$190Free for OUSD, BUSD and MCOE teachers. Limited tuition assistance available for those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org for more information or for registration questions.
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Practitioner Exchanges – monthly
From: $15.00Practitioner Exchanges create time and space for peer educators to explore issues of practice. Get inspired! Try out new ideas or perspectives! Ask for help with your challenges, and collectively generate new ideas and solution. Each Exchange centers on a different topic. This year, Practitioner Exchanges are held online via Zoom, and will investigate different questions in regards to teaching dance from a distance. Practitioner Exchanges are facilitated by Summer Institute alumni. Come to ONE, come to ALL. No prerequisite.
Practitioner Exchanges are included in the cost of workshops as follow-up discussions. When taken in conjunction with a half-day workshop, PD hours total 4.5-7. Explore descriptions here.
Topics (more to be posted as new inquiry emerges)
Restarting & Reimagining
September 284:30-6pm
Luna Dance Institute$15-40 sliding scale each.
OR pay $28 (the Professional Learning fee) and come to as many as you like for a year.
Paid the $28? Email jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org to let Jochelle know which ones you’ll attend.No one turned away for lack of funds – reach out to jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org.
