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You're Building More Than Dancers.
Building Brains Through Dance™ is a practical professional-development course for early childhood dance educators who want to create more engaging, developmentally supportive classes. Teachers will learn how to use movement, music, routines, and play to help children practice attention, memory, self-regulation, flexible thinking, creativity, and connection, while preserving the joy and magic of dance.
Developed by Tiffany Henderson (BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona, Master's in Positive Psychology from UPenn, and research partner with Stanford University's MEL Lab), this course translates the science of how young brains grow through movement, rhythm, play, and relationships into responsive, engaging classes.
Complete knowledge checks and reflection exercises to earn certification in developmentally responsive, inclusive, and joyful preschool dance teaching.
Learn on your schedule. Pause, revisit, and complete at your own pace.
How to recognize working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility in everyday dance class moments, and build them through movement, music, routines, and play
Supportive, strength-based ways to help children notice cues, re-engage after distraction, and participate more successfully
How to turn familiar activities (freeze dance, across-the-floor work, rhythm games, creative movement) into brain-building games with a simple developmental purpose
Developmentally appropriate strategies: clear routines, visual supports, music cues, purposeful movement, and just-right challenges
You're Building More Than Dancers.
Building Brains Through Dance™ is a practical professional-development course for early childhood dance educators who want to create more engaging, developmentally supportive classes. Teachers will learn how to use movement, music, routines, and play to help children practice attention, memory, self-regulation, flexible thinking, creativity, and connection, while preserving the joy and magic of dance.
Developed by Tiffany Henderson (BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona, Master's in Positive Psychology from UPenn, and research partner with Stanford University's MEL Lab), this course translates the science of how young brains grow through movement, rhythm, play, and relationships into responsive, engaging classes.
Complete knowledge checks and reflection exercises to earn certification in developmentally responsive, inclusive, and joyful preschool dance teaching.
Learn on your schedule. Pause, revisit, and complete at your own pace.
How to recognize working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility in everyday dance class moments, and build them through movement, music, routines, and play
Supportive, strength-based ways to help children notice cues, re-engage after distraction, and participate more successfully
How to turn familiar activities (freeze dance, across-the-floor work, rhythm games, creative movement) into brain-building games with a simple developmental purpose
Developmentally appropriate strategies: clear routines, visual supports, music cues, purposeful movement, and just-right challenges