Dance Art-I-Techts - helps K - 12 school and home schooling educators integrate dance into the core curriculum to supplement other classroom and physical education activities. We show step-by-step how to choreograph (ie, building dances), as well as how to teach students to choreograph

Recent News: Marty is the 2005 winner of the "K - 12 Teacher of the Year" Award from National Dance Education Organization.

Marty Sprague is a professional choreographer and performer with 29 years of experience in public dance education. As the artistic director of Chance to Dance©, she facilitates dance making in large student groups of nondancers. She is also a dance educator at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence and has been a licensed trainer for the National Center for Education and the Economy Course I, Standard Based Curriculum - a professional development course for standards-based teaching and learning. She is the co-author of three books: Building More Dances (2001), Dance About Anything (Human Kinetics, 2004 - in press), and Experiencing and Appreciating Dance (Human Kinetics, 2004 - in press).

Marty has taught professional development courses for dance certification for the state of Rhode Island. In 1992 she was named the Rhode Island Dance Educator of the Year and earned the Oustanding Professional Award from EDA. She received a Presidential Citation from NDA in 1999.

Marty holds an MA in dance education from the Teacher's College at Columbia University. She and her husband, John, live in Slocum, Rhode Island, where she enjoys taking dance classes, spending time with her family and two grandsons, and flying as a passenger in her husband's small aircraft.