Patricia Reedy

About Patricia Reedy

As the founder of Luna Kids Dance in 1992, I am dedicated to bringing dance to all children. I am committed to dance as creative expression-teaching children & adults tools of choreography so that they might find their voices and leadership through dance. Since 1998, Nancy Ng & I have shared Luna\'s directorship, evolving it from a small community-based studio program to a multi-faceted organization serving dance teachers from across the country through Professional Learning.Sharing my interests nationally has been an intriguing way to meet colleagues who are as passionate about dance education as I. Conference presentations include: Collaborative Leadership: Becoming the leaders we are looking for, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) 2018 annual conference, La Jolla, CA; Purposeful Evaluation: How Do We Know We’re Walking our Talk, National Guild of Community Arts Education 2017 annual conference, San Francisco, CA; Embedding Dance, Race, and Equity into Practice, NDEO 2017 annual conference San Antonio, TX; Where are they now? 15 years of Luna’s Summer Institutes, survey of 155 participants over 15 years, NDEO 2016 annual conference, Washington, DC;\"I, We, Us\", keynote address Embody/In My Body conference 2015 Vancouver, BC. In 2016, I taught The Rigors of Creativity, at Dance Education Laboratory (DEL)/92nd Street Y, New York and taught Action Research, Reflective Practice, and The Rigors of Creativity at The Perpich Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2019 and 2020. I enjoy writing about many aspects of dance learning. I published the Body, Mind & Spirit IN ACTION 2nd ed. 2015 and articles in InDance: In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018, InDance, Jan/Feb19; Creating and Revising, July/Aug15, Teaching and Choreographing: Mutually Beneficial Acts, May15; and Universal Design for Learning: Why Does It Matter to Dance Teaching?\" Oct13. Using Inquiry to Improve Your Teaching Practice was published in Dance Education in Practice, Dec17 and I serve on the DEiP editorial board. In 2012, Ted Warburton, Nancy Ng & I completed a 3-year research study on Parent-child engagement through dance, published 2014 in IJEA My dissertation on teachers\' perceptions of creativity in dance was published on ProQuest in 2020. Specialties: designing dance education programs, dance pedagogy, authentic assessment, reflective practice, creativity, early childhood, child development, choreography, family dance

Experience

1. Director of Creativity & Pedagogy

   Luna Dance & Creativity

   Mar 1992 — Present · Berkeley, CA, US

Education

• University of San Francisco

  Doctor of Education - EdD

  2015 — 2020

• Mills College

  MA

  1998 — 2000

• University of San Francisco

  Currently enrolled in doctoral program in School of Education, Learning & Instruction

  2015

• University of San Francisco

  Doctor of Education - EdD

  2015 — 2020