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SEL Movement Game: May I Have This Dance?

28 Jan 2019

In addition to offering programs that help students build Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skills through dance, Dancing with Class has developed a series of movement games that any educator can use to reinforce SEL skills in a fun and active way. “May I Have This Dance?” is a [...]

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SEL Movement Game: Mirrors

28 Jan 2019

SEL Movement Game: What is Your Emoji?

28 Jan 2019

In addition to offering programs that help students build SEL skills through dance, Dancing with Class has developed a series of movement games that any educator can use to reinforce SEL skills in a fun and active way. “What is Your Emoji?” is a self-awareness game that help [...]

Fourth Graders Reflect on Dance in School

21 May 2018

This year, a group of 4th-6th graders at Chicago’s Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy took the Dancing with Class core program journey, spending 10 weeks learning different styles of partner dance and then traveling to a Dance-Off event for a friendly competition with other schools. The program [...]

Jewel Makes Her Choreographic Debut

15 May 2018

Jewel Baker is a high school sophomore who we first met when she was a fifth grader at Poe Classical School. She represented Poe at one of our city-wide Dance-Off events and was nominated to join our scholarship program, the DwC All-Stars. Since then, she has been one of our most reliable and [...]

Students Take the Spotlight at Edwards Elementary

14 Mar 2018

Richard Edwards Elementary is a Dual Language Fine and Performing Arts IB School that Dancing with Class has had the pleasure of partnering with for many years. It’s a right of passage for all 5th graders at Edwards to spend 10 weeks learning ballroom dance. In addition to sending a team of [...]