Tag: valerie gutwirth

Summer is a great time to sketch out big ideas for the upcoming school year with unit plans, themes, and cross-curricular projects.  I taught full-time at a middle school in San Francisco for six years, and before that, spent seven years as a specialist at numerous Bay Area K–12 schools. I poured hours and hours […]

For a young student in the process of developing bodily awareness, a hands-on adjustment by a teacher can mean the difference between safe and incorrect alignment. But in many K–12 schools today, a hands-on approach is frowned upon or sometimes even forbidden. With dance being a kinesthetic art, this limitation presents a predicament for K–12 […]