Here's what workshop participants are saying:
“Great class! The instructor made us feel comfortable. We had fun and learned a lot.”
“Please make this workshop available to our colleagues!”
“Lots of information that I will be using in my classroom.”
What I liked best: “The energy and information from Rachael Carnes.”
“Thanks for the wonderful ideas and information.”
“I liked learning by moving, interspersed with pointing out relationships with brain development.”
" Learning about movement was new and eye opening. Great information! This was a wonderful session."
"One of the most outstanding programs I have ever attended in my professional life was, with out a doubt, a program called "Creative Movement as a Learning Tool" led by Rachael Carnes."
" During the course of 3 1/2 hours we learned different ways to apply creative dancing in basically any type school subjects, such as math, language arts, science, foreign languages a social sciences. We also learned about the richness of folk music around the world and the endless possibilities to combine movements and sounds together. Our class group was quite large, I would say around 75 teachers from different Duval county private and public schools."
"Creative dancing is a "concept- based dance style" that uses kinestetic routines and dance elements to engage students in a different way of learning experience."
"Rachael called us "dancers", even though most of the attendants had never taken a dance class in their life."
"We created geometric shapes with stretchy bands, we glided, wiggled our arms and legs, and bounced. We learned about free flow and bound flow. We represented "Natural Disasters" forces by using elements such as space, time, force and body."
"One of the experience I enjoyed the most at this programs was when were given an abstract painting to observed and to identify the concepts of size: big, medium and small. A dance creation will follow this. The logistics of it were more impressive, since the total activity completion time did not last more than 3 minutes. As a closing activity, our facilitator presented us with a basket full of plants and flowers she had previously picked up outside of the building. We all sat around the floor forming large circle and everyone picked a flower or plant and placed it in the middle of the circle as we summarized our perception of the whole experience in one word. As each of us completed this task, we realized that we had created a beautiful masterpiece full of color and textures."
"We were all mesmerized! What a sense of tranquility!"
"I am already working on some creative movement based on major idea concepts in my curriculum: This is an area that many private and public schools had never explored or considered before, because of the lack of professional staff that could lead a program like this."
" Despite the fact that there is some basic training involved, you do not have to be a trained dancer in order to bring this concept into your classroom. The one element you must have is your IMAGINATION. Thank you Rachael."
- Morah Nomy, K-5 teacher, Florida