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Cool mind. Warm heart.
Transcendental Meditation Educator -
Scheduling is the new budget. It’s not so much about money as it is about instructional time. We have to pose scheduling as a design challenge.
Arts Educator -
We have to turn everything into data or it didn’t really happen.
Arts Educator (facetiously. but not entirely) -
You teach what you are.
Arts Educator -
Kids can NOT learn in chaos.
Retired Principal -
We spend so much time focused on the kids who aren’t engaged and so little time focused on the ones who are. Don’t always focus on the resistance.
Dance Educator -
If we are all clamoring for dance teaching to be respected and valued the way we know it should be, it also means we all have to step up! And raise the bar in the field and in our own practice. Some dance teachers are perfectly comfortable with the way things are right now because they can safely stay doing what they are doing, knowing not much is expected of them.
Dance Educator -
Dance, teaching, and children are all undervalued in our society. So anyone who becomes a dance teacher usually has a lot of passion and courage because they’re faced with road block after road block after road block. This is all exacerbated by the fact that there is no dance teaching credential in California. So if you are here, it says a lot.
Dance Educator -
We WANT our students to go way beyond, we want to help nurture a generation that is going to push the field forward.
Dance Educator -
There is value and integrity in dance. What you do is important, it’s not fluff. You have to know that and you have to hold that line.
High School Dance Teacher -
If you give people the opportunity to discover and have their own experiences, they are going to way beyond what you think they can do, and what they think they can do.
Dance Educator -
If you really want to make change, you’re in the world, you work hard till you die.
Dance educator talking about hard work. -
Sometimes, all you need is one ally.
Dance educator on finding a kindred-spirit teacher at her school site. -
If you don’t respect yourself, why should the audience? If you don’t respect the material you’re presenting, why should the audience? It starts with you.
5th grade teacher -
I know we’re not in the business of judgement…but sometimes…..it’s just really difficult.
1st grade teacher discussing the difficulty of watching families make choices for students that don’t seem to be in the student’s best interests.
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