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How to Navigate Tough Classes, From the Rowdy to the Removed

The diverse mix of students’ personalities, backgrounds, and needs is part of what makes teaching dance so wonderful. It creates complex class dynamics, and even entire communities. But in some cases, with certain distributions of personalities or experiences, those class dynamics can become challenging. When the majority of a particular group is disengaged, rowdy, chatty, […]