Dancing Classrooms cultivates essential life skills in children through the joyful art and practice of social dance. Through standards-based, in-school residencies and out of school programs, we use the vocabulary of social and partner dance to support the next generation of global citizens and leaders.
Our renowned program develops the best of what academics call Social Emotional Learning or SEL, life skills like motivation, collaboration, and listening that help us develop into empathetic and compassionate human beings in a coarsening world.
Year after year, school principals, teachers and families have witnessed the elevated self-esteem, connection and engagement of each Dancing Classrooms student that propels enhanced performance in- and out-of-school in the semesters that follow.
Through research, evaluation, observation, reflection, and feedback, we’ve heard time and again that our programs improve student performance and strengthen the community in the classroom and beyond.
- Cultivates Key Behavioral Skills: In 10 weeks, the Dancing Classrooms residency supports effective learning and student ownership of their learning, with 95% of students seeing increased engagement and motivation. 89% increase in self-discipline and focus.
- 10 Weeks to Strong Neural Connectivity: The arts make your brain grow. Participating in the arts for as little as 10 weeks has been shown to increase the resiliency and neural connectivity of the brain, making for increased self-awareness and better memory processing.
- Develops Social and Collaborated Skills and Relationships: The program enhances social confidence through partnering with and supporting classmates and adults. 93% strengthened collaborative and team skills. 71% demonstrated greater social confidence.
- Contributes to a More Active Lifestyle: Dancing Classroom’s program allows children to have another avenue to be physically active in addition to physical education classes. This contributes to helping children meet the necessary 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity daily and may encourage healthy lifelong activity habits.
