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

Susan McGreevy-Nichols

Susan McGreevy-Nichols has recently been hired by the Galef Institute as an Artist Educator Coach. For the past 28 years, Susan has served as founder/ developer of a nationally renowned middle school dance program that has a strong emphasis on dance as a core subject. The program emphasizes the learning of the creating, performing and responding processes and how they link to the other disciplines. She is the developer of a cutting edge reading comprehension strategy that uses text as inspiration for original choreography created by children. This literacy-based methodology combines the creative process with reading instruction.

Susan has been selected to serve on a number of national committees and task forces such as the writing committee for the INTASC Beginning Teacher Standards in Arts. She has also worked as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service, the Educational Development Center (SPECTRE program) and for numerous state arts and education agencies, educational institutions and non-profit organizations across the US.

Susan provides professional development opportunities that range from assisting teachers in designing and documenting student work that meets standards, to helping artists to understand educational reform efforts and how to make what they do in schools more relevant to reform issues. She is the co-author of four books: Building Dances (1995), Building More Dances (2001), Dance About Anything (Human Kinetics, 2004 - in press), and Experiencing and Appreciating Dance (Human Kinetics, 2004 - in press). Her other writing experience includes being a columnist for Dance Teacher Magazine and has been an invited contributor to the Arts Education Policy Review.