Professional Development

     Our professional development workshops present our philosophy of arts education- integrating all of the arts with the academics.  We work with educators teaching with all ages and stages of development – UPK through adulthood.  In addition, we focus specifically on educators of students working with Special Needs, Bilingual/ESL, Gifted/TAG, and other specialized populations.

     The kinesthetic and fully participatory workshops combine basic dance skills with creative movement, drama games for self-esteem, quality music (classical, ethnic, jazz), visual art forms, focus techniques, nutritional awareness and tumbling.  The curriculum highlights shapes, levels, colors, spatial concepts and locomotor exercises and explorations.

     As educators, we have special opportunities to encourage, motivate, and explore the connections between the arts and the academics with our students.

     The arts fit easily and successfully into all areas of educational planning and each child should have the right to be exposed to quality arts at the earliest possible age. The arts are not frills and extras, nor are they primarily suited for special children and populations. The arts belong in every life. They provide us with vast pleasure. They give us a stronger self-image. They open new windows on the world. They teach and enrich all at once and we become engaged and enchanted for a lifetime.

Education In Dance and The Related Arts 
Elizabeth Bernard Pettit, Founder 
Dr. Jo Gjertson Frederiksen, Director 

27 Barker Avenue, 426
White Plains, NY 10601
917.593.0964
eidancejo@gmail.com
eidancejo@verizon.net
                         
 New York City Department of Education     VENDOR ID: EDU 043000     CONTRACT #: Q1129BA

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