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Dance To Learn

The Geraldine R Dodge Foundation partners with Young Audiences, Dance New Jersey, professional dance companies/ensembles/teaching artists, and teachers to promote the Dance to Learn experience.

Dance to Learn

With Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) at the forefront, Dance to Learn prioritizes equitable access to dance experiences for historically excluded and systematically marginalized dance styles, and student populations.

Dance to Learn is:

  • a four-year interdisciplinary and inclusive dance curriculum with the goal to advance dance education in New Jersey schools.
  • a model of dance education that meets or exceeds the NJ Department of Education Student Learning Standards for Dance, and the National Core Arts Standards in Dance.

The Dance to Learn curriculum is both arts-based and truly arts-integrated because it:

  • encourages students to explore, internalize, and transform classroom learning and the elements of dance while developing their individual creative voices.
  • offers opportunities for students to reflect, critique, and connect personal experiences to their learning of dance and in their classrooms.
  • is a framework to guide sequential curriculum design for multiple dance styles and genres.
  • provides an inroad to kinesthetic learning and connects to language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, physical education and music curriculums.
  • offers formative and summative assessment and documentation tools to help measure the effectiveness of student learning and facilitator impact.

Become a part of the Dance to Learn community!
Together we can advance the frontiers of dance education.

Dance Companies/Ensembles/Dance Teaching Artists

Teachers

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Geraldine-R-Dodge-FoundationDance to Learn, in partnership with Dance New Jersey, is made possible through the generous support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

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