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**Highland Park Sr. High, St. Paul**Michele Costello, Claudia Perez Inzunza (2011-12), Andrea Dickinson. Charlotte Landreau (Team Leader) ||  || **Year Two** **April 20, 2012, Team Meeting:**
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 * 1) Click "Edit" to work on the wiki
 * 2) As a team: Complete the online Year Two Report below noting Successes & Challenges. Complete sentences are helpful!
 * 3) Revise Team Rosters names if needed.

Do you have money remaining in your grant that could be put to good use in covering subs? (such as wrap-up team meetings or visits to another ACE site or to observe programs in another school)
 * Team Leaders: Check your budgets to date **.

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 * By May 25, 2012 (Grant Report Deadline) **:
 * 1) Each teacher should fill in their own Curriculum Snapshot
 * 2) Optional: If your team has changed members, upload a new photo
 * 3) Consider adding video links or photos of student work to the Gallery. ||

Year Two Report

 * What kinds of successes have happened in dance education at your school? **
 * We have four sections of dance a year!! We do two full shows a year, with both student choreography and teacher/guest artist choreography. We have students asking to take the courses next year. 8 students went on to challenge themselves by doing the IB Dacne exam. **

==We would like to work more deeply with the other performing arts teachers, and develop a schedule for 9/10th graders who right now cannot take any of the performing arts classes. We would also like a true budget!==
 * What were the challenges? **

Year Two Curriculum Snapshot:
**Subject** || **Dance tools or lessons** What have you used this year? || **Standards** Arts integration with another area? Which areas? Dance standards addressed? || **Goals for dance next year** (2012-13) ||
 * (Each teacher should fill out their own section.) **
 * **Teacher's Name** || **Grade Level,**

Year Two Gallery
// Here's where you can upload picture, short videos, documents and scans of student work. Click the "File" icon in the toolbar and it will prompt you to upload items for the Gallery. //

Year One Curriculum Snapshot:

 * (Each teacher should fill out their own section.) **

**Subject** || **Dance tools or lessons** What have you used tin Year One? || **Standards** Arts integration with another area? Which areas? Dance standards addressed? || **Ideas for Expansion** (2011-12) || Diane Aldis || 5-6th Social Studies || Plank + Trust (Underground Railroad)
 * **Teacher's Name** || **Grade Level,**
 * EX:

Name Game, Cupid Shuffle,Action Wave

Descriptive Review with dance videos || S ocial Studies & Dance Strand I Foundations

Mainly for building community

Dance Strand 4: Respond, Analyze || Derek led these lessons this year; next year I want to teach them myself.

I want to use dance on a more regular basis so it's a weekly or biweekly activity in my classroom.

Need to learn more about assessing dance in order to show that students are meeting some of the dance benchmarks. || Dance || Contemporary dance, Bachata, Salsa/Merengue, Movement Autobiography piece choreographed by the students, Reflective written journals, research presentations, ||  || Get $$$ at the school level. || Dance || Contemporary dance, Bachata, Salsa/Merengue, Movement Autobiography piece choreographed by the students, Reflective written journals, research presentations. ||  || Work on getting guest artists in, in an institutionally supported manner. ||
 * Michele Costello || 10-12
 * Charlotte Landreau || 10-12
 * Claudia Perez Inzunza ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Andrea Dickinson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

Year One Team Report

 * What kinds of successes have happened in dance education at your school? **

Overall, this year has been both a success and surprise, with a total of 134 kids taking class, and healthy numbers projected for next year.

Two student shows presented- one at end of each semester.

Field trips helped immeasurably to spark student interest and confidence.

The increased interest by students in trying something new, like joining the dance class, has been extremely beneficial to the overall elective opportunities at HPSH.

ELL students have more integration into the program, with feeling of being invited into the program.

Deliberate attention has resulted in the establishment of clear norms and traditions surrounding the beginning of class and the practices during the dance class: dressed for class, arriving on time, taking care of business first, warm up, then - different protocols for guest artist days, as opposed to choreography and presentation days.

Clarification of expectations and rigor, as in other academic classes.

Team members have cooperated, with Andrea Dickinson teaching clogging to the dance classes, and Claudia Perezinzunza planning dance activities with Kenna Sarge and her ELL students.

Michele Costello and Charlotte Landreau have collaborated in the planning and teaching of their classes, against all odds.

Finding a way for Claudia and her students to participate in the dance program has been tough. Finding a way for Claudia's kids to participate with authenticity is key to her participation.
 * What were the challenges? **

Convincing kids who are not academically confident to write and reflect at an in depth level.

Convincing other staff, including the administration, that dance is a broad concept with many applications, not just an isolated extra.

Although ACE provides some support, there is no money from the school for the dance classes. We have applied for 2 other small grants, and ask students to contribute $ if they are able.

**Year One Gallery** Here's where you can upload picture, short videos, documents and scans of student work. Click the "File" icon in the toolbar and it will prompt you to upload items for the Gallery.

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