Kern Dance Alliance (KDA) has launch the fall 2017 session of Shine for Girls: Math + Dance = SUCCESS (SHINE), an innovative, curriculum-based after-school program for middle school girls. Utilizing ...

If enthusiasm, excitement and joy are indications that students are learning and engaged, then SHINE for Girls must be succeeding. Friday afternoon at Garces Memorial High School’s dance studio, the ...

Led by math teacher Alexis Dekel and dancer Kimberly Rae Gilbert, the eight-member coed team creates movements to interpret concepts such as right angles, numerals and more abstract quantitative ...

Shake off that old stereotype about girls not being good at math. A new program for local middle school girls hopes to have them jumping, twirling and dancing their way to better grades and a boost in ...

Woodcrest Elementary School first-grade teacher Lynn Verdusco quickly applied what she had learned at a recent workshop to give her students new tools for understanding math concepts. On Wednesday, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern Dance Alliance is expanding their “SHINE: dance + math = success” program. SHINE is a nationally recognized and innovative after-school program for middle school ...

Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...

As the midshipmen stepped and hopped in front of her, Naval Academy math professor Sommer Gentry couldn’t help but dance. On a recent Tuesday in Smoke Hall, the Naval Academy’s Swing Dance Club was ...

Aug. 4—Before a crowd of their peers, dancers were asked to perform their routine they practiced all the week, but with a catch: perform all of it, then 30% of it and finally 70% of it. It was a dance ...