Early Childhood & Family Dance
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View MoreAdd to Cart This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageLove, Move, Play™: Dance in Early Childhood – Fall 2024
$575.00Explore the essential nature of dance and movement for young children in this newly extended six-week course. Investigate early childhood development and neurocellular patterns in an embodied way, and explore how the elements of dance can be used to support young children’s need to move. Learn to extend spontaneous dance experiences, facilitate parent-child interactions using dance, integrate dance into emergent curriculum, activate circle time and create stand-alone dance lessons with student choice and voice at the center. Develop your skills of observation. Learn how to provide access to dance for all students. Step into this whole-self art form to increase joy in your classroom. This course is for all who work with young children. No prerequisite. Designed as a virtual course and taught via Zoom.
Free for MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.Please read our Terms & Conditions.
12 October-16 November, 2024
Saturdays
9:30am-12pm Pacific
via Zoom
$5756 Saturdays:
12 October
19 October
26 October
2 November
9 November
16 November
one of these sessions will be in-person at Luna 931 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, date tbd -
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View MoreAdd to Cart This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEarly Childhood Dance & Literacy – September 21, 2024
$195.00Children learn using multiple languages. Discover how dance intersects with language learning and literacy skills and stands as a language on its own. Learn how dance expands children’s relationship with literature, symbols, songs, rhythm and rhymes, and engages them as holistic learners. This interactive workshop introduces full-body dance activities that support vocabulary, phrasing, and narrative development. For all who work with young children ages 0-8.Saturday, September 21, 2024
9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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View MoreAdd to Cart This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEarly Childhood Family Dance – December 7, 2024
$195.00Social justice workers, early education teachers, dance artists, therapists, and parents learn to engage families in relationship-enhancing dance experiences. Parent-child dance classes provide families with a safe, comfortable environment to play and dance together and have proven to help strengthen the family bond and help parents gain confidence in their ability to interact physically with their children. In this introductory workshop, participants will investigate how attachment and play theories interact with neurological patterning, and learn to create meaningful and fun dance curricula for diverse, intergenerational families.Saturday, December 7, 2024
1:30-4:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for OUSD and MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.
Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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View MoreAdd to Cart This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEarly Childhood Dance & Math – February 22, 2025
$195.00How does a child’s kinesphere and relationship to self and others relate to Geometry and Measurement? What do Number Sense and Pre-Algebra look like through the embodied movement of the young child? This interactive workshop explores play-based dance activities that support sorting, classifying, adding together/taking away, patterning and spatial awareness through the lens of culturally relevant teaching practice. For all who teach young children ages 0-8.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for OUSD and MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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Early Childhood Dance & Science: The Great Outdoors – March 8, 2025
$195.00Children are part of the natural world, and can experience freedom and connection through outdoor creative and risk-taking play. Discover how dance can support children’s curiosity about nature, including life and earth sciences. Explore movement activities inspired by all they engage with and observe outdoors – sticks and rocks, mud and puddles, feathers and blossoms, and more – that will strengthen your students’ agency and artistry. Support their natural impulse for full-bodied, full-speed movement that is sparked by being outside, and play with the potential for grounding and self-regulation that connection to nature offers.
This workshop aligns with the Preschool and TK Learning Foundations and Creative Curriculum. Nature and classroom educators, camp counselors, teaching artists and all who work with young children are encouraged to join. No prerequisite.–Saturday, March 8, 2025
9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for OUSD and MCOE early childhood teachers.
Enrollees can come for free to our Earth Day Curriculum Riff, April 16 via Zoom. RSVP by checking the box below.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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Early Childhood Dance & Social Emotional – December 7, 2024
$195.00How does dance intersect with children’s sense of self, and their connection with others? Discover dance activities that support young children’s exploration of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, interactions and relationships. Taught through a culturally responsive lens, this interactive workshop centers around cultivating belonging, inclusion and community through creative dance play.Saturday, December 7, 2024
9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for OUSD and MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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Early Childhood Dance & Transitional Kindergarten – February 8, 2025
$195.00California’s standards for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) emphasize meeting students where they are, fostering relationships, supporting family involvement, and utilizing developmentally appropriate teaching practices. Dance is a perfect vehicle for meeting TK objectives as it intersects with literacy, numeracy, and social interactions. Learning how to move one’s body within a group of other movers is at the core of self-regulation. Dance, like play, provides opportunities for rich emotional and social experiences and expression.
Dance & TK offers an in-depth look at Four Year Olds: Who are they? How do they move? What is happening in their cognitive, social, psychological, and emotional development? How can we provide safe, joyous activities for TK students to discover themselves and express their knowledge and feelings? What kind of risks help students extend through the full range of the Zone of Proximal Development for 4-year-olds and how do we, as teachers hold space for them to take those
risks? What does an environment of inclusion, possibility, and creativity look like and how can we, as teachers, recognize and extend learning opportunities for everyone?Join us in exploring these questions through the Elements of Dance, body-brain connectivity, observation, and play!
Saturday, February 8, 2025
1:30-4:30pm Pacific
via Zoom
$195Free for OUSD and MCOE early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org for more information or for registration questions.
Please read our Terms & Conditions.
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Practitioner Exchanges – monthly
From: $15.00Practitioner Exchanges create time and space for peer educators to explore issues of practice. Get inspired! Try out new ideas or perspectives! Ask for help with your challenges, and collectively generate new ideas and solution. Each Exchange centers on a different topic. This year, Practitioner Exchanges are held online via Zoom, and will investigate different questions in regards to teaching dance from a distance. Practitioner Exchanges are facilitated by Summer Institute alumni. Come to ONE, come to ALL. No prerequisite.
Practitioner Exchanges are included in the cost of workshops as follow-up discussions. When taken in conjunction with a half-day workshop, PD hours total 4.5-7. Explore descriptions here.
Topics (more to be posted as new inquiry emerges):
Leadership in Dance & Community
January 30, 2025, 4:30-6pm Pacific
via ZoomPerformance/Informance
October 24, 2024, 5-6:30pm Pacific
via ZoomFamily Dance
November 14, 2024, 4:30-6pm Pacific
via ZoomInclusion in Dance
December 19, 2024, 4:30-6pm Pacific
via Zoom$15-40 sliding scale each.
OR pay $30 (the Professional Learning fee) and come to as many as you like for a year.
Paid the $30? Email PL@lunadancecreativity.org to let us know which ones you’ll attend.No one turned away for lack of funds – reach out to PL@lunadancecreativity.org.
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Family Dance Institute
$450.00An in-depth exploration of relationship-building through the art of dance. Course content includes attachment theory, early development theory (0-5 year olds), brain research and neurological patterns, play theories, and working with parents. Teaching artists, early education teachers, therapists, dance educators, parents, and social justice workers learn to create engaging dance curriculum that fosters trust and connection. No prerequisite. More information here.
