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“You’re replaceable.” These two words echoed in freelance dance teacher Jennifer Gordon’s mind following surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from her intestines. Even while recovering in a New Jersey hospital, she was working on class plans and choreography, returned to rehearsals the day after surgery, and then to teaching three days later, driven by […]
A few years ago, dance teacher Elaine Mannix of Commonwealth Dance Academy in Walpole, Massachusetts, learned a 10-year-old student had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The dancer had just added hip hop and lyrical to her class schedule and would sometimes dance three hours a day, building toward participating in more competitions as she […]
It’s important to keep a student with a chronic health condition safe and happy in class. One step you can take is to understand that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all plan for dealing with chronic illness. Part of the reason it’s important for you and your staff to read up on the illness and to communicate […]
