My Students

To provide music for class I have been using my own personal set of speakers and my iPhone. Recently, one of my 2 speakers blew out so volume is at a less than appropriate minimum. Also, with the large variety of music I like to use, my own cell phone has little space for anything that's not music!

My students are of all shapes, sizes, colors, and personalities but have on thing in common: they want to dance.

We hold class in the auditorium and they change in the bathrooms. They don't ask for anything but to keep dancing every second of the period. They complain sometimes, but I secretly think they all like it. It's impossible to find the right words to describe all that my students are.

My Project

Being able to blare music as loudly and obnoxiously as we please is a great benefit of getting to participate in dance class. Let's be honest, how fun would dance class be without music? Sadly, now my students and I are quickly headed down the dark path to silence! Music literally pumps my students up. Let's imagine being a high school student, slumping into a cold, obnoxious bright room at 7:15 in the morning, or walking into a warm room after lunch with a belly full of food and a brain all but fried, and being forced to contort your body in ways that look and feel plain unnatural. Feel the motivation? Neither do I.. Blaring upbeat and exciting music is just one method I utilize to wake up my sleepy heads each day. Class already feels a lot less lively with music that is now faint in comparison to what we are used to having.

Sacrifices are a given in the field of education.

Rarely ever can anything be completely perfect in every way, but in a majority of situations teachers create magic and make it work. My students can manage without proper leotards, dancing on an old stage under hot lights, changing in bathrooms, and sharing small spaces with many classmates, but a silent dance class? That's one thing I won't let happen to my students. Just as you need words in English and numbers in Math, you need music in dance!