Join us this summer for transformational learning! Celebrate 30 years of the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers. SDIT is designed for educators, dance teachers, arts specialists, and therapists who wish to deepen their understanding of the vital link between movement, emotions, and learning. Gain confidence in combining the mastery of movement with the artistry of expression. Explore cutting edge dance pedagogy and best practices in the ever-evolving laboratory of SDIT. Strengthen your teaching practice while recharging your batteries through embodied learning. Whether Brain-Compatible Dance Education and BrainDance are new to you or you are experienced and practiced in using Anne Green Gilbert's holistic teaching methodology, we welcome you to SDIT. This course immerses participants in Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Explore the dance concepts of Space, Time, Force and Body, Anne Green Gilbert's unique five-part lesson plan, and the somatic depth and richness of the BrainDance. This course offers an environment of collegial support for returning and experienced participants as well as those new to BCDE. Anne Green Gilbert's teaching methodology joyfully celebrates and nurtures creativity, self-expression, collaboration, and community. Providing access and making dance inclusive for all is at the heart of BCDE. This course allows participants to experience sample lessons based on Anne Green Gilbert's successful five-part conceptual lesson plan and the brain-compatible principles that underpin it. Discover how incorporating these principles into your teaching, workplace, or home can positively affect learning, focus, collaborative skills, and creativity. Since repetition is the key to learning, graduates of SDIT are always welcome to return to and repeat the course. SDIT faculty, Anne Green Gilbert and Dionne Kamara, share new lesson plans each summer. Returning students often find a deeper understanding and expanded ways to put their knowledge into practice.