✨ATTN: Dance Teachers✨
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Registration for our summer semester of online dance education courses is NOW OPEN to everyone!!
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➤ **NEW** OPDI-128: Foundations of Dance Education Research
➤ OPDI-120: Music Theory and Applications for the Dance Teacher
➤ OPDI-125: Dance History in the USA
➤ OPDI-M32: Using Dance Science to Enhance Curriculum
➤ OPDI-M13: Modern Dance Theory and Composition
➤ OPDI-M27: Functional Awareness: Mindfulness Practices in Embodied Anatomy
➤ OPDI-M40: Building A Mission-Based Dance Studio
➤ OPDI-M25: Hip-Hop: History and Heritage
➤ OPDI-M2: Elements of Dance
➤ OPDI-M12: Jazz Dance Theory and Practice
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🚨SPACE IN ALL COURSES IS LIMITED - Register now to secure your spot!🚨
We’ve got you!
So many dancers found their way into teaching without any training in dance pedagogy.
The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) supports dance teachers in becoming the best educators you can be.
Both our institutional and individual memberships give you access to:
➡️ Online courses
➡️ Webinars
➡️ National Conferences
➡️ Virtual and in-person conferences
➡️ Dance education journals featuring the latest research and teaching strategies
➡️ A National jobs board
➡️ A College Dance Directory
➡️ The Dance Education Literature and Descriptive Index (DELRdi)
➡️ National dance education standards
➡️ Mentorship programs
➡️ and more!
Comment “NDEO” below 👇👇👇 for a link to learn more about how NDEO membership can strengthen your teaching!
#DanceEducationForALL #NDEO
DANCE TEACHERS:
Are you ready to get certified to teach dance in K-12 schools, without taking time off teaching?
NDEO and Oakland University have partnered together to give you the opportunity to earn your K-12 teaching certificate 100% online!
Whether you already have a bachelor's degree in dance or you hold a bachelor's degree in any endorsed content in K-12 Education and would like to add a specific focus in dance, this program let's you create a customized plan to earn your K-12 certificate entirely online.
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#DanceEducationForALL
Dance Studio Teachers and Owners: This is for YOU! 🫵
Registration is now open for NDEO's upcoming virtual summit:
✨Private Studio, Public Impact: A Virtual Summit for Dance Studio Teachers ✨
📅 July 27, 2026
Dance studio educators are shaping the next generation of dancers, audiences, educators, and cultural participants. But the independent sector also faces distinct and evolving challenges. Join us July 27 for a day of connection, learning, and expansion as we come together to improve our work and continue moving towards a world of #DanceEducationForALL!
⏰ Early Bird Savings Deadline: June 30
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We love seeing so many dance teachers pursuing lifelong learning!
Our online professional development courses are asynchronous and include interaction with a cohort along with assignments and professor feedback. Course sizes are limited to ensure you have a meaningful experience.
OPDI-M2: Elements of Dance is now SOLD OUT, but there is still room in our remaining summer courses!
Swipe through to view our remaining online courses, and COMMENT BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️ for the link to register!
"Ballet is an art form built on discipline, precision, and beauty. For centuries, it has followed a set of unspoken rules that often go unquestioned in the name of tradition. But every time I take my place at the barre in the quiet before class begins, I see a body shaped by years of trying to fit into the expectations that ballet quietly demands. I wonder whether these physical standards are essential to its identity, or are they exclusions masked as elegance. This tension matters because, as dancers and educators, we have the power to determine which questions are being asked and challenged."
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College Dance Students:
Are you looking for an affordable way to attend the 2026 NDEO Conference?
Volunteer at the conference and receive complimentary registration!
COMMENT BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️ for the link to learn more and apply.
📅Application Deadline: May 31, 2026
There's still one more opportunity to apply to present at the 2026 National Dance Education Conference!
Applications to present a poster during our poster presentation session are NOW OPEN! through June 1, 2026
COMMENT BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️ and we'll send you the link to learn more about presenting a poster at the 2026 NDEO Conference
SAVE THE DATE!
Thank A Dance Teacher Day 2026 is NEXT WEEK!
Help raise awareness of the benefits of dance education by posting a shout-out to a dance teacher who changed your life using the hashtag #ThankADanceTeacherDay on Thursday, May 7.
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Our most popular online mini-course is back!
OPDI-M25: Hip-Hop: History and Heritage is a unique course featuring weekly Q&A Zoom discussions with Professor E. Moncell Durden.
As dance educators, we have a responsibility to give credit and respect to all forms by including context, heritage, and history in our lessons.
Understanding and sharing the rich cultural context and stories behind hip-hop dance can not only enhance your teaching, but also grow respect for the hip-hop genre and those who created it.
This online mini-course will help you understand hip-hop vocabulary, terminology, and fundamentals as well as gain a contextual and historical overview of hip-hop dance and culture; its recurring cultural modes of discourse and practices woven into black vernacular / social dance, and its intersecting economic, political, and social dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
Register now at ndeo.org/opdi-m25
