This engaging, movement-based lesson transforms geometry into a collaborative and experiential learning process. By physically forming quadrilaterals, students internalize shape properties through kinesthetic exploration, developing a deeper understanding of angles, sides, and symmetry. Whether working together to build a parallelogram or creatively identifying a mystery shape, students experience math as a dynamic, interactive subject that fosters confidence, teamwork, and critical thinking.

Throughout my career, I’ve met many arts educators who’ve become masters at what I call “domesticating the arts.” The arts evoke power. They hold the power to excite, tame, inspire, and educate. Yet in educational settings, that power is often managed within systems that value structure and compliance. The real artistry lies in learning to move between both worlds: leading with creative spirit while maintaining clarity, consistency, and professional accountability.

Whether you're working in a traditional classroom, studio, or community center, these materials help create a responsive environment where students can explore academic ideas through motion. Think of them as both anchors and launch pads—keeping kids grounded in content while giving them freedom to move, discover, and grow.

One of my favorite illustrations captures how vision fits into a broader framework for success. It’s a chart showing the pathway of Vision, Skills, Incentives, Resources, and Action Plan leading to Organizational Success. When all five are present, progress is steady and morale is strong.

Angles are made when two lines meet at a point, called a vertex. We can find angles all around us—in buildings, art, and even how we move our bodies. In this lesson, we’ll learn to tell the difference between right angles, acute angles, and obtuse angles, using movement and observation to make geometry come alive.

Students will learn how to use a protractor to measure and draw angles and identify types of angles based on their measurements.

It sounds simple, but I’ve seen how often consistency is where professionals stumble. In schools, nonprofits, and creative workplaces, it is easy to retreat into busyness, delay follow-through, or miss chances to connect. The leaders who stand out are not the ones who make a splash once and then disappear. They are the ones who show up again and again with care, attention, and steady action.

This course isn’t just for teachers or dancers. It’s for pedestrians—the everyday movers and thinkers—who are curious enough to jump, twirl, roll, stretch, kick, gallop, and breathe their way into a deeper understanding of the world. Whether you're a classroom teacher, a homeschool parent, or just someone looking to bring a little more joy into your child’s day, these lessons are here to meet you where you are and move with you.

Cultural change is not instant. It is not easy. It takes consistency, clarity, and a willingness to create safe places where people can engage at their own pace. When people feel seen, heard, and valued, they stop resisting. They start building. That is how culture truly changes.

In this lesson, students learn key vocabulary related to the coordinate plane and stage directions. But instead of just memorizing terms, they’ll embody the concepts by moving across a large-scale coordinate grid. Using their whole bodies, students will locate and plot ordered pairs, connect mathematical coordinates with theatrical stage directions, and interpret pathways that challenge them to think spatially.

Teaching Artists are like creative superheroes who bring art, music, dance, and storytelling into different schools. Because they move from school to school, they get to see lots of different school cultures. Each school has its own “personality” with its own rules, routines, and ways of doing things. Some schools are super loud and energetic, while others are calm and quiet.

In this lesson, students will discover how dance can bring mathematics to life. By using their bodies to create triangles, angles, and other geometric forms, dancers learn to see math not just as numbers on a page but as shapes moving through space. The lines we draw with our arms, legs, and pathways help us visualize and understand important geometric principles in an active, memorable way.