Resources for Students and Families
- Brain Compatible Dance Education
A method and a resource list for parents and educators including BrainDance –
A brain-body warm-up for home, school, anywhere & everyone. Creative Dance Center.
- Go Noodle
A fun, easy to use website that “engages and inspires millions of kids every month to channel their boundless energy–getting them up, moving and becoming more mindful.”
- Arts Are Education
Arts Are Education is a national campaign in support of arts education for all students.
- Square Dance on Vimeo – Jan Edward Vogels Watch this delightful video with dancing shapes, patterns, space and color!
- Mini-Mindful Moments With Eve Costarelli, videos for families and schools to share their relaxing and mindful techniques with children and themselves.
- Bolero Juilliard | April 2020 Listen and watch Juilliard’s Bolero, arranged by Juilliard. For all Grade Levels.
Resources for participating CPS Classroom Teachers:
- Information & Registration for classroom teachers interested in Dance in the Schools
- NDEO Evidence Report: A Report on the Impact of Dance in the K-12 Setting
- March Things To Know – CT
- Mini-Mindful Moments With Eve Costarelli, videos for families and schools to share their relaxing and mindful techniques with children and themselves.
- Evaluation Form for Classroom Teachers [password protected]
General resources for Teachers
Resources for teachers interested in how dance-based learning can improve their classroom environment and benefit their students:
- National Dance Education Organization
- NDEO Evidence Report: A Report on the Impact of Dance in the K-12 Setting
- NDEO Professional Teaching Standards for Teaching Dance Arts
- NDEO Standards for Dance in Early Childhood
- NDEO Philosophy Underlying the Standards for Dance in Early Childhood
- New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance
“The Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance: PreK-12 provides teachers a path to follow for developing a curriculum with dance, and benchmarks for what children should understand, and be able to do in dance at critical junctures in their intellectual, physical, and emotional development.”
Resources for the Dance Teaching Artist TEAM
- DTA Survey Form
- CORI Form with Instructions
- DTA Connection
- NDEO Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts
- Discipline Guidelines for Dance, guidelines specific to dance educators as they re-enter the physical or virtual classroom
- Welcome to the City of Cambridge
- Parking in Cambridge
- Tips for Teaching Dance Remotely
- Easily available props and materials for at-home dance/creative movement
- Evaluation Form for DanceTeaching Artist [password protected]
- Mini-Mindful Moments With Eve Costarelli, videos for families and schools to share their relaxing and mindful techniques with children and themselves.
