Dance for Peace

In honor of National Peace Month, Maury invited Dance 4 Peace to teach students how to be peacemakers through dance and the use of their bodies. The presenters explained to students that your body sends all kinds of messages and that they help us express how we feel.

"The [Dance 4 Peace] curriculum is a movement-based peace education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement." 

www.dance4peace.org

Students were given a conflict solving strategy and then came up with a scenario that could be solved using that strategy. Then, students took the stage in their groups to act out their scenario. A great concept that our students seemed to really grab hold of. 

(Students learn to say their name in a new way. They were asked to come up with a movement for each syllable in their name.)