Love, Move, Play™: Dance in Early Childhood – Fall 2025
$575.00
Explore 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 through the lens of culturally responsive teaching. 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 and OUSD early childhood teachers.
Limited tuition assistance available for independent dance teaching artists or educators those whose employers do not provide PD funding. Email **@*****************ty.org for more information or for registration questions.
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18 October-22 November, 2025
Saturdays
12:30-3pm Pacific
via Zoom
$575
6 Saturdays:
18 October
25 October
1 November
8 November
15 November
22 November
Plus optional In-person session Saturday, November 15, 3:45-5pm PT




