National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)

Are you ready for professional development that ENERGIZES? Our 2024 Conference is designed to help you not only revitalize your teaching practice, but also re-energize as you make connections with passionate dance teachers from across the nation. Learn more at ndeo.org/conference #NDEO2024 #DanceEducationForALL

“Dance educators, as the face of dance education, are responsible for teaching and promoting dance equitably regardless of whose body executes the movement.” Read "Thick Like Me: Uprooting Racism and Sizeism from the Dance Classroom” in the most recent issue of Dance Education in Practice. **NDEO Members have FREE access to all current and past issues of Dance Education in Practice (DEiP) through your NDEO account at ndeo.org/DEiP #DanceEducationForALL

CONNECT. LEARN. DANCE. Join dance educators from across the nation as we come together at the National Dance Education Conference to REVITALIZE our teaching practices, our advocacy efforts, and our own personal energy. Come fill your tank, renew your love of teaching and the art of dance, and move your body with a community of dance teachers who share your passion. Register now: ndeo.org/conference

Are you saying the same movement cue/correction over and over and still getting no response from your students? The Functional Awareness® Cueing Toolkit can breathe new life into how we see and how we communicate to help students learn and retain motor skills. Our "Functional Awareness Movement Cueing Toolkit" Pre-Conference Intensive session from Nancy Romita and Allegra Romita addresses the dance educator’s dilemma of giving the same correction repeatedly to a student with lack of consistent embodied retention. The ways in which students access their sensory motor system can impact how they learn. Individual body construct and varied learning styles are also factors in a student’s ability to learn a dance skill. This session is an opportunity for you to learn and practice a series of specific verbal, auditory, visual, tactile, and proprioceptive cueing practices to broaden the pathways for success for each learner. Register for this pre-conference intensive and the 2024 NDEO Conference at ndeo.org/conference

COLLEGE DANCE STUDENTS: This opportunity is for you! Want to attend NDEO National Conference for FREE? ⁠ ⁠ Apply to be a student conference volunteer! Volunteers receive complimentary conference attendance and are free to attend sessions when they are not working.⁠ ⁠ As a student volunteer, you will be scheduled to work a total of 10-12 hours over the conference. Volunteering is one of the best ways to get the most out of your conference experience as you'll have the chance to interact with many presenters, attendees, and the NDEO conference staff! ⁠ ⁠ The deadline to apply is MONDAY, JULY 15 ⁠ Apply now: ndeo.org/studentvols

Centering JOY for teachers and their students will be the focal point of this pre-conference intensive, utilizing dance as our vehicle to move forward! Create community, process realities of how social identity constructs are oppressive, explore liberation practices, and dance together - in "Liberation Dance: Finding Joy", dance educators will unite with the intent to be more inclusive teachers, support other teachers with this mission, and be supported in the process. During this pre-conference intensive from Nyama McCarthy-Brown, we will move beyond definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and accept these terms as components of our present social reality. We will engage in embodied conversations about dominant identity makers and leave with innovative teaching tools. Movement and discussion will be utilized to process examinations of power and positionally. You will work in small groups to create customized frameworks for your own teaching settings. Register now for the 2024 NDEO Conference and Pre-Conference Intensive Day at ndeo.org/conference #NDEO2024

Major cuts to arts education programs are on the chopping block! In July, the House Appropriations Subcommittee approved its Labor-HHS-Education funding bill for fiscal year 2025, which includes major cuts to education programs. The bill would provide the U.S. Department of Education with $68.1 billion in discretionary funding, which is roughly an $11 billion (13%) decrease below FY 2024 funding and falls $33 billion short of the President���s budget request. If enacted, this bill would make drastic cuts to programs aimed at strengthening and diversifying the teacher workforce and programs that support some of our most vulnerable student populations. To avoid the potential impact of such drastic cuts, we need you, arts education advocates, to rally together and show your support for these vital programs. Fortunately, we are still in the early stages of the appropriations process, so advocates are still able to have a substantial impact! Learn more and contact your senators and representatives at https://lnkd.in/gvG7Q7a8

TOMORROW is the registration deadline for the Somatic Movement in Dance Education Conference! Register now: ndeo.org/somatic2024

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Did you know that high arts-involved students report less boredom in school than students who are less arts-involved? This is just one of the MANY reasons the National Dance Education Organization is working towards a world of #DanceEducationForALL! Read more about the benefits of dance education at .https://lnkd.in/gaBzjYcD