This topic is one of my great passions — so much so that I am creating three different reading lists here, based on what course or courses you might offer at your college or university. The lists can be used for: dance for children, teaching dance to middle school and high school students, and a general course on dance education. (Please note that a few blog posts appear in more than one list.) I also list 8 books to consider for courses as well.

Dance Education Course: Dance for Children

Becoming a Teaching Artist: An Infographic and Graphic Organizer

Speaking as a Teaching Artist: 50 Perspectives

Five Questions for Dance Educator Anne Green Gilbert

A Pulse on the Dance Teaching Artist Field: Training Programs, Methodologies, Philosophies, and Complementary Educational Language

My Dance Week: Ashley Boyack

My Dance Week: Valerie Gutwirth

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A Pulse on Dance in LA Unified School District

Picture Books to Use in Children's Dance Classes

25 Playful Props for Preschool and K-5 Dance Classes

Five Ideas as You Begin to Teach Afterschool Classes

Five Ideas as You Begin to Teach Preschool Age Students

Eight Resources and Ideas for Teaching Parent/Child Dance Classes

Five Year Olds Dancing

Dance Classes with Children 1-5 Years Old

Tips from the Book Dance Education Essentials: 55 Objects and Ideas for New Preschool-12th Grade Teaching Artists

Ten Resources for Teaching Artists as We Prepare for the Year Ahead

Dance Education Course: Middle School/High School

Speaking as a Teaching Artist: 50 Perspectives

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My Dance Week: Kristin Blatzheim on Teaching Full-Time at a High School

My Dance Week: Falon Baltzell on Teaching Full-Time at a High School

My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a 6th-12th Grade Public School (Sarah Billings Wheeler, NYC)

My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a Public Middle School (Amber Johnson, Florida)

My Dance Week: Teaching Full-Time in a Public Middle School (Jennifer Smith, California)

Artist Profile: Linda Carr of Berkeley High School

Artist Profile: Wendy Jones of Lowell High School

Artist Profile: Angela Demmel of Moreau Catholic High School

Teach dance in a high school? 14 reflection questions as you grow and develop your program

Advocacy/PR/Documentation: Ideas for K-12 Dance Teaching Artists

Jan Erkert's Book, Harnessing the Wind

For Middle School Dance Educators: A Graphic Organizer to Support the Choreographic Process for Your Students

Teaching Technique to Teens and Adults

Teaching Resource: Dance Studio Life Magazine

Working with a Youth Ensemble

A Pulse on the Dance Teaching Artist Field: Training Programs, Methodologies, Philosophies, and Complementary Educational Language

A Pulse on Dance in LA Unified School District

A General Dance Education Course

Speaking as a Teaching Artist: 50 Perspectives

Jan Erkert's Book, Harnessing the Wind

Teaching Technique to Teens and Adults

Five Questions for Dance Educator Anne Green Gilbert

Becoming a Teaching Artist: An Infographic and Graphic Organizer

My Dance Week: Kristin Damrow

My Dance Week: Jayme Klinger Host

My Dance Week: Jennifer Smith

Building a Dance Company: On the Topic of Educational Programming

The Beautiful Relationship of Being an Artist and a Teacher

Liz Lerman's Online Toolbox

Prep Time

Tips from the Book Dance Education Essentials: 55 Objects and Ideas for New Preschool-12th Grade Teaching Artists

Joan Woodbury on Teaching

For Studio Instructors: Weekly Ideas and Reflection Questions for Fall Semester Youth Classes

Book Recommendations for Your Courses

Body, Mind, and Spirit in Action: A Teacher's Guide to Creative Dance by Patricia Reedy

Creative Dance for All Ages by Anne Green Gilbert

Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research, and Practice by Nyama McCarthy-Brown

Harnessing the Wind: The Art of Teaching Modern Dance by Jan Erkert

Dance Education Essentials: 55 Objects and Ideas for New Preschool-Twelfth Grade Teaching Artists by Jill Randall and Valerie Gutwirth

The Teaching Artist Sutras by Michael Wiggins

Teaching Artist Handbook by Nick Jaffe, Rebecca Barniskis, and Barbara Hackett Cox

Step by Step by Sheila Kogan

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