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Dance benefits

In an evaluation of Dancing Classrooms in New York City, 95 % of teachers said that as a result of dancing together, there was a demonstrable improvement in students’ abilities to cooperate and collaborate.
Dancing improves reading and math scores. “physical activity has a positive influence on memory, concentration and classroom behavior.”
Arts benefit everyone regardless of their vocational pathways.

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Why dance is just as important as math in school

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The Many Health Benefits of Dancing

With shows like Dancing With the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance in full swing, dancing is becoming one of America's favorite pastimes. There is even National Dance Day, which was started in 2010 to "encourage Americans to embrace dance as a fun and positive way to maintain health and fight obesity."

berkeleywellness.com

Dancing benefits

Studies have found that dancing can improve balance, gait, walking speed, and reaction time, as well as cognitive and fine motor performance.
Dancing may help people with Pa...

Marita Green

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What Is Homeschooling? A Guide for Parents and Students

More parents are now choosing to homeschool instead of sending their children to public or private schools. Learn more about the homeschooling movement and what's involved when parents educate their kids at home.

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Defining homeschooling

Homeschooling is a progressive movement around the world where parents educate their own children at home.

The homeschooling movement began in the 1970s when resea...

Requirements for Homeschooling

For the majority of parents who homeschool, the only prerequisite is the desire and dedication to take on the education of their children.

Author John Holt pointed out that the most important thing parents need to homeschool their children is "to like them, enjoy their company, their physical presence, their energy, foolishness, and passion."

the key to [educational] transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true pass

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Marita Green

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This Is What Happens When We Close Doors On Creativity In The Classroom

Stifling creativity in the classroom can lead to a loss of entrepreneurship in the future. Here are the reasons we must keep creativity alive.

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A natural love of curiosity

Creativity can be defined as having the ability to take new imaginative ideas and turning it into reality.

When the natural love of curiosity is not allowed to blo...

Creativity levels are dropping

Research was conducted to test the creativity in children over a period of twenty years. The results showed the proportion of people who scored at the genius level of creativity:

Amongst 5-year-olds: 98%

Amongst 10-year-olds: 30%

Amongst 15-year-olds: 12%

The same tests were given to 280,000 adults who averaged 31-years-old. Their creativity levels were down to 2%.

Little room for creativity in the classroom

Most of our public schools still run on an industrial model - like a factory, where children are put into boxes according to age and ability.

This process of schooling follows the framework of historical education processes and procedures, such as standardized tests, and learning from a one-size-fits-all curriculum. It is closing the doors on passion, imagination, discovery, and problem-solving, leaving little room for creativity.

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