Positive Thought Provoking Messages For Your Students

Assessment in Dance Education

Having just returned from the celebrated, inaugural Dance Teacher Web Conference in Lake Las Vegas and a successful teacher-talk session on Dance in the K-12 Setting, I’d like to contribute some more information regarding many of the attendees’ questions on …

DEEP SIX... These six rules will help you write letters tha…

This is a great time of year to send out a letter to your clients who have not yet re-registered for fall lessons. I highly recommend this as a way of reconnecting with them before the season progresses too far. …

How To Find, Interview And Hire Teachers

The Dance Teachers Summer Reading List

Pre-School Ballet Class Content

To Get More Business, Focus On The Customers

A lot of advertising focuses on the company that is trying to get your business and what makes them the best choice. You read about how a company does this or that. How they care about their customers and how …

10 Ways To Improve Your Time Management Skills

Through the years we have had the opportunity to talk to and work with many studio owners from all over the world. One of the biggest issues is time management. We have found that having a daily plan and following …

What Makes A Great Teacher?

Marketing On The Cheap!

Integrating Choreography-Composition Into Your Curriculum

Every dance teacher has moments of epiphany. For me, it’s when I look at students and recognize their potential to attain a professional dance career, long before they can realize it themselves. As teachers, we have the advantage of insight …

Summer Study: Front Desk Training

Summer is perfect for front desk training. It is a good time to set goals and themes for the upcoming season and to get everyone who works at the front desk feeling excited and enthusiastic about their jobs. At the …

Cash Flow Forecasting

.Cash flow is the life blood of all businesses. The key is to determine how much is coming in versus how much is going out to pay you’re your expenses. If you have been in business for a few years, …

Making Dance History Come To Life

One of the greatest gifts that we, as teachers, can give our students is to show them how to have an open and curious mind forever. Too often students only skim the surface in their classes and never really fully …

Dance Educating vs. Dance Training

There has always been much emphasis placed on creative movement within K-12 dance education. However, the concept of integrating formal, more sophisticated improvisation and choreography-composition classes within the private sector has often been overlooked. As someone who just finished her …

9 Tips To Keep You Moving Forward

This just in: Owning and running a dance studio is hard work!