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When movement spells success: an L.A. elementary school uses dance to sharpen minds.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: When movement spells success: an L.A. elementary school uses dance to sharpen minds.(Los Angeles, Gabriella Charter School )

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At a tiny charter school in one of Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods, students learn the alphabet by shaping letters with their bodies. They study other cultures through folk dance. They're taught multiplication with tap.

Movement is the medium here at Gabriella Charter School (GCS), California's only dance-themed elementary school. School leaders, convinced that dance is a powerful academic tool, have integrated movement into the curriculum to help students latch on to difficult concepts. And they've made studio work a daily activity because, they say, it makes kids better learners. Their goal is not to turn out great dancers so much as great students.

"We try to appeal to multiple intelligences," says Susan Gurman, who has been the principal of the school since it opened in 2005. By...

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