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It's officially summer! Celebrate by making a short summer dance with us! Dance along wherever you get your podcasts!

Have you danced today?

"Of course everybody can dance - and not only can, should."
- Ohad Naharin

All NEW Vibrant Verbs episode out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Happy Earth Day listeners! Hope you have a chance to get outside today and find a way to do your part to help take care of our amazing planet!

Be on the lookout for a special Earth Day dance episode tomorrow!

Get up and get moving today with a new vibrant verbs episode!

Listen at https://www.listenthinkleap.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

New Book Beats Episode out today exploring the book Matisse Dance for Joy by Susan Golman Rubin through movement! Visit listenthinkleap.com or find the episode wherever you listen to podcasts!

Shout out to all the administrators and educators working to include dance/movement exploration in classrooms!

Did you know that March is Dance in Our Schools Month?

We'll be celebrating by sharing posts about the importance of dance education in prek-12 schools throughout the month - you can join in by sharing our posts or creating your own!

Our first ever Book Beats episode is out and is the perfect way to celebrate Read Across America Week! Check out some of the verbs and adjectives your dancer can explore as they dance out a summary of John's Turn by Mac Barnett (**tip - grown-ups and educators use this list for literacy extension activities)! Listen now at https://www.listenthinkleap.com/ and then visit your local library to read the full book!

We've got an extra special Leap Day bonus episode coming out tomorrow 2/29! Make sure to tune into the podcast tomorrow to listen and LEAP along!

Have you listened to our latest episode released today? It's a new Minute to Move take on a series favorite, vibrant verbs! Stream wherever you get your podcasts!

When does the next episode of Listen.Think.Leap! come out? TOMORROW! Episodes are now released every Tuesday. Subscribers get early access to episodes every Thursday!

Grown-ups - consider this your permission to dance along with your listener! While Listen.Think.Leap! is designed with youth in mind, it can be really refreshing and rewarding to get up and explore your creativity through movement no matter your age!

Share this reminder with someone who needs it!

"It is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity."

Listen.Think.Leap! encourages kids to get up and move along with what they hear! Whether learning a new verb with Vibrant Verbs or developing body awareness and spatial awareness as they move along to a dance focused episode, Listen.Think.Leap! focuses on active engagement - the 'doing' of learning.

Find the latest episode wherever you listen to podcasts!

Dance is a natural way of learning for ALL children!

Learn more about the importance of in the NDEO report, "Evidence: A Report on the Impact of Dance in the K-12 School Setting".

You can find the evidence report and other dance education advocacy tools at ndeo.org/Advocate/Advocacy-Tools

Season 3 Episode 1 Your Favorite Way to Move is out now to all listeners!

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EARLY ACCESS to Season 3, Episode 1 is available NOW to Listen Think Leap Subscribers!

Subscribers get exclusive early access to episodes, monthly bonus episodes, and thank you shout out when they first join! Throughout the year, subscribers will have extra opportunities to be part of the podcast like reading a vibrant verb definition to be part of a future episode!

Become a Listen Think Leap Subscriber today! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1690144/subscribe

Happy Valentine's Day from Listen Think Leap!

Why is dance education important?

Research and anecdotal evidence indicate that dance education contributes to students' physical, emotional, and social well-being by providing a method of physical awareness and fitness, an outlet for creativity and personal expression, and a means to develop social-emotional skills, such as self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Students who study dance develop 21st century skills such as collaboration, communication, and creativity, and dance has been shown to positively affect students' attitudes, perceptions, and values. Dance provides children multiple perspectives. Through dance, children develop enhanced sensory awareness, cognition, and consciousness. It is this heightened state that creates the magic of movement that is dance.

Learn more about the importance of dance education at ndeo.org/About/Dance-Education

Let's give every student the chance to fly!

Put your screens down
Turn your volume up
Get ready to dance
Because...
it's Season 2 of Listen.Think.Leap!

Available wherever you listen to podcasts and at www.listenthinkleap.com!

Every full episode of our podcast features a Vibrant Verbs segment promoting vocabulary comprehension while introducing and encouraging the use of dance elements like levels, timing, space, body awareness, and sequence.

Did you know that arts integration activities create a save atmosphere for risk taking?

This is one of the many reasons NDEO is working for !

Learn more about the importance of dance education in our evidence report at ndeo.org/evidence

It's Monday which means an all new Minutes to Move Break! In this episode we're dancing out those fun onomatopoeia words like 'POW', 'BOING' and 'FIZZ'! Available at www.listenthinkleap.com or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Too hot to play outside? Keep kids active and engaged with an all new full episode where we explore the dance element levels, dance a new verb, play a greater than, less than dance game, and create a tree cycle dance! Available wherever you listen to podcasts!

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Parts 1 & 2 of our Minutes to Move series on exploring emotions through dance are available now wherever you listen to your podcasts!

New full episode! Available wherever you listen to podcasts and at www.listenthinkleap.com!

 

It's Monday and another new Listen.Think.Leap! Minutes to Move Break! This week we continue our exploration of space and spatial awareness by using imagery to transform our dancing space and movement qualities.