Knowledge/Understanding
- Students will develop professional teacher-learner knowledge of dance-as-art as an educational practice, scholarly field, policy landscape, and community of practice.
- Students will develop professional teacher knowledge about the pedagogy of teaching dance and how individual differences among children in terms of their abilities and their social, economic, and cultural backgrounds influence learning.
Communication/Community Building
- Students will recognize and appreciate the multiple communities that make up schools and how they are mutually informed.
- Students will develop skills to cultivate being in embodied relationships with diverse people toward achieving community goals.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Students will learn to disrupt educational structures that perpetuate the marginalization of non-dominant communities and identities.
- Students will develop professional teacher knowledge of how individual differences among children in terms of their abilities and their social, economic, and cultural backgrounds influence learning.
- Students will examine dance learning contexts for the potential to nurture identity formation, engender empathy, embrace diverse perspectives, engage interdisciplinary inquiry, and shape social transformation.
- Students will be empowered as advocates of dance-as-art state mandates who strive to ensure educational equity for all PK-12 children.
Research/Professional Practice
- Students will apply social justice-informed pedagogies that nurture identity formation, engender empathy, embrace diverse perspectives, engage interdisciplinary inquiry, and shape social transformation.
- Students will develop their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in curriculum development, assessment, research, data-informed decision-making, and leadership.
- Students will reflect on and refine their practice as well as participate in professional development for pre-service and in-service dance and classroom educators.
Assessment
- Students will design standards-informed multi-modal assessments that demonstrate embodied learning and are intended for diverse learners.
- Students will enhance their ability to facilitate equity-informed assessment processes that stimulate student ownership of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in dance.
Professional Development/Self-Reflection
- Students will engage in critical conversations in the field of dance education and understand the implications of these conversations for their school community and teaching practice.
- Students will understand their intersectional identities and positionality, recognize the implicit biases that may result from that positionality, and mitigate how implicit bias can adversely impact their planning, instruction, and assessment.
- Students will take on service and leadership responsibilities that help shape practice in the field of dance education.
Graduate Programs in Dance 
