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Geeky Ballerina

artistry + technique

Geeky Ballerina

artistry + technique

Geeky Ballerina

artistry + technique

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Map Your Path to Teaching Excellence

Transform your ballet instruction with clear frameworks that build both confidence and joy

Curriculum

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Elevate your teaching with a systematic framework that maps out essential vocabulary, progression paths, and yearly priorities - while leaving you in control of both combination creation and class pacing. Perfect for teachers ready to pair their natural instincts with clear, evidence-based structure.

Lesson Plans

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Complete, thoughtfully structured classes with clear, step-by-step combinations for barre and center. Take the guesswork out of class planning while maintaining your teaching style. Perfect for teachers who want to maximize their impact in the studio while spending less time planning.

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The Geeky Ballerina curriculum exceeded our expectations. The clear advancement criteria gave our teachers immediate confidence in assessing students and planning classes. Instead of guessing, we now have a clear method to identify gaps and strengthen foundations.

Lisa B.

The Geeky Ballerina Curriculum

​​​Enhance your teaching expertise with our comprehensive framework that brings clarity and joy to every class. Each level thoughtfully integrates technical progression with artistic development, empowering you to create confident, expressive dancers.

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   Each level includes:

  • Strategic Class Planning Tools. Age-appropriate guidelines and scheduling frameworks that simplify complex placement and pacing decisions into confident choices. You'll know exactly how to structure your classes for maximum impact while maintaining the joy of learning.

  • Focus-Driven Teaching Framework. Clear principles and content organization that keep your teaching intentional and effective, even during your busiest weeks. Built from years of teaching experience, this framework helps you maintain excellence without sacrificing your energy or enthusiasm.

  • Progressive Skill Development. Nine carefully structured units per level that build naturally upon each other, creating clear pathways to student success. This systematic approach ensures that no foundational elements are missed while maintaining an engaging pace of learning.

  • Integrated Artistry Development. Thoughtfully embedded expressive elements that grow alongside technical skills, creating dancers who are both technically proficient and artistically confident. Our pioneering approach to teaching artistry gives you clear tools for developing each dancer's individual artistic expression.

  • Clear Advancement Framework. Evidence-based promotion criteria that give you confidence in your decisions and help you communicate progress effectively with parents. Transform potentially challenging conversations into opportunities to celebrate genuine student growth.​​

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The technique curriculum is thoughtfully structured into four divisions:

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  • Pre-Ballet & Ballet Foundations (ages 3-7)--Building joyful movement foundations and basic ballet concepts through age-appropriate activities and clear progression paths

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  • Elementary Division: Levels 1-3 (ages 8+)--Establishing strong technical basics and introducing fundamental ballet vocabulary through systematic, progressive units. This division is also the ideal entry point for teen and adult beginners.

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  • Intermediate Division: Levels 4-6 (ages 11+)--Developing technical proficiency and artistic expression through carefully structured progression. Each level builds systematically on previous foundations.

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  • Advanced Division: Levels 7 & 8 (ages 14+)--Refining advanced technique and artistic maturity through comprehensive technical and artistic development

    • Note: Many students benefit from spending two years mastering the material in certain levels, typically reaching the advanced division around age 16

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Support your dancers' pointe progression with our comprehensive curriculum:

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  • Materials to simplify determining pointe readiness including:

    • an evaluation class

    • a rubric

    • and sample results letters to send to families so your communication is clear and growth-oriented

  • An optional pointe preparation year--because it might be the perfect fit for your students or you might prepare students during regular classes

  • Four pointe levels designed to align with levels 4+ in the technique curriculum, keeping your dancers' growth consistent and aligned throughout your program

  • The key principle and vocabulary for each level to help you create impactful lesson plans

  • All new vocabulary for each level, divided into 9 units so your pointe program fits perfectly with your technique program

  • Benchmarks demonstrating mastery of the material to use when you evaluate when a student is ready to progress to the next level

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The Geeky Ballerina Lesson Plans

Written to help you build your students' foundation for success from the start, each Unit 1 Geeky Ballerina lesson plan includes:

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  • The key principle, key vocabulary, and objectives for the unit to help you keep your corrections focused where they will have the biggest impact

  • A comprehensive lesson plan including:

    • all the new vocabulary for the unit​

    • barre combinations

    • center adagio, and turn combinations

    • small, medium, and big jump combinations

    • and a révérance so you can mix-and-match to create the perfect class for each group of students

  • Suggested music to keep your playlists fresh and energizing

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