Erin Crawley-Woods, MFA Dance candidate, worked with juvenile offenders at Keshet Dance Company, which is featured in Dance Teacher

Erin Crawley-Woods appears in the August 2013 issue of Dance Teacher Magazine for her work teaching movement to promote math, literacy, and conflict resolution for juvenile offenders. 

Erin Crawley-Woods spent four years teaching a curriculum that married grammar, geometry, creative writing and more with dance at a New Mexico juvenile detention center - Keshet Dance Co., an Albuquerque nonprofit that focuses on community outreach with low-income and at-risk youths.

Crawley-Woods discussed her experience at a 2012 TEDx conference and presented a paper titled "Common Ground and Uncommon Good: Teaching Dance to Incarcerated Youth" at the National Dance Education Organization's 2012 annual conference. Now she's working on a paper for publication in the Journal of Dance Education.

To read the article in Dance Teacher Magazine, "Dancer in Chief" click here