Salsa Dancing in Gym Shoes: Developing Cultural Competence to Foster Latino Student SuccessCultural competence is a critical skill teachers must posses if they are going to connect with racially diverse students. Misunderstanding or ignorance of the Latino value system, history, and culture create barriers between teachers and students that significantly deteriorate their potential for learning. Consider how you would typically greet a friend or a relative. Perhaps you would shake hands or even hug. In the Latino culture, it's common to greet loved ones with an embrace and a kiss on the cheek. Anything less may be taken as an affront. If something as simple as "hello" can create tension, how challenging is it to navigate teaching and learning in the classroom? Salsa Dancing in Gym Shoes takes a close look at interactions between Latino students and Non-Latino teachers in ways that develop and expand the cultural competence of teachers. Preservice and veteran educators alike will benefit from current research and theories on Latinos and education as well as the personal essays presenting that reveal the raw perspective of Latinos as they deal with racism and marginalization. Educators will have a deeper understanding of the Latino experience and practical strategies for creating a positive and safe environment for learning.

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This 293 page handbook contains 36 dance positions, 51 dance patterns, and 184 illustrations. Each position is illustrated from multiple angles. The author researched over 500 websites and online video lessons and curated the best 83 of them for beginner and intermediate students, providing a breakdown of common positions, holds, turns, and patterns. Are you a beginner or intermediate level salsa dance enthusiast? Do you want to expand your repertoire of dance patterns? Do you already have some understanding of the fundamentals of salsa dance and are ready to level up? Have you started to accumulate a collection of dance steps, and are starting to forget some of what you learned? Would you like to have a way to break down elaborate combinations into individual patterns? Could you use a refresher course on use dance patterns that can be used to create a diverse variety of combinations? Would you like to have a study guide to help guide your learning? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then this handbook is for you. A salsa dance combination is comprised of two or more salsa dance patterns, each pattern covering two bars of music. Every salsa dance pattern begins and ends in a dance position. One can view the salsa dance pattern as the artful transition from a start position to an end position over eight beats of music. Because salsa dance is made up of combinations, and combinations are made up of patterns, one can view salsa dance as an aesthetically pleasing progression through a series of dance patterns over the course of a song. Expert salsa dancers know how to get into and out of myriad salsa dance positions in interesting ways. Those amazing dancers that you see on the dance floor seem to have an endless knowledge base of elaborate combinations. How can they memorize so many different combinations? The secret is that many of them tend to use a small collection of patterns. They know how to get into and out of a position. If they have a combination that begins with some particular start position, they also know an interesting way to get into that position. Each pattern they perform takes them from the start position to an end position. They know how to take that end position and turn it into a start position for the next pattern. They know how to mix and match patterns to create combinations that seem to be infinitely varied. This handbook will help you get there. If you are there already, and are looking for ideas on how to communicate your skills more effectively, this handbook will help you achieve that objective. This handbook supplements expert dance instruction. It is structured for quick reference. This handbook contains a compendium of basic positions and turns, a catalog of common salsa dance patterns, a collection of salsa pattern combinations composed of patterns defined here, and a guide to creating new pattern combinations of your own. The patterns in this handbook can be used to create thousands of combinations. It is possible to combine these patterns into 227 combinations of length three without repeating a pattern within any of those 227 combinations. The number of combinations that can be created without repeating a pattern is even greater for longer combinations: 471 combinations of length 4, 952 combinations of length 5, and 1,820 combinations of length 6. Twelve combinations are provided to show how to create combinations using the patterns in the handbook. This handbook is for salsa enthusiasts, instructors, and students. It can also benefit readers interested in ballroom dance and other partner dance styles.

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Learn to dance, and skyrocket your partner dance abilities! Dance secrets I wish I knew when I first started salsa dancing that will help beginners get started in salsa dance and have more fun, a quicker learning curve, and greater success on the dance floor. What every novice must know (and what I wish I knew) before learning to salsa. Dance Secret's Salsa BootCamp is a clear and concise guide to what you need to know during your first few months of salsa dancing. The concepts presented apply not only to beginner salsa dancers, but also to dancers of all levels, and many styles of partner dancing. You won't find the concepts in this short and direct book anywhere else - and yes, they will help you in any and all partner dances! They are proven shortcuts to success in dance and you'll love what they do for your dancing skills. Want to excel in salsa? Want to learn faster, surpassing others in your classes? Do you have questions about learning salsa that no one's been able to answer? This book is for you! Check out DanceSecrets.com for more books and articles, and get a FREE Learn to Salsa Dance DVD! In this manual, I'll walk you through all of the mysteries of the salsa superstars and show you how to get the most from your lessons and social dancing, and above all, how to totally delight in your new salsa superstar status! Having fun is the most important thing (actually, you'll find it hard not to)! Salsa begins and ends with this. That's what dancing is all about. Relax, take a deep breath, and enjoy! SalsaCrazy.com is one of the world's premier Latin dancing websites. Founded in 1996, SalsaCrazy.com was born of a passion to dance, and a desire to show others how fantastic salsa dance can be. As our first instructor told us, It will change your life. SalsaCrazy has dance instructional videos in numerous styles of dance (all available on Amazon.com). Give salsa dancing a try, and you'll find a vibrant world of fantastic people, exciting nightlife, and perhaps a side of yourself you've always wanted to free. We've created a series of high quality DVD's to showcase how easy and fun salsa dancing can be! Find salsa dance videos, merengue videos, Latin dance videos, and all styles of dance instruction with SalsaCrazy on Amazon.com (Search Amazon.com for "SalsaCrazy" or "DanceCrazy" to see all of our dance instructional products). Salsa is a dance that can be enjoyed by everyone, with fantastic music, a rich history, and an unbeatable, intoxicating, rhythm. Take SalsaCrazy home and learn to salsa dance today!