Dance With Teachers

If you weren’t aware, California is currently in the process of getting the dance credential for public school teachers. In this episode I speak to Jessy Kronenberg, the Director of the Credentialing Taskforce in the state of California. She shares the history of this credential, where it stands now, and what we can expect in the future. Ms. Kronenberg is the Visual and Performing Arts Liaison at El Cerrito High School in the San Francisco Bay area. She currently serves on the greater board of the California Dance Education Association (CDEA). With CDEA, she has organized many professional development conferences in dance education and has worked on several arts education bills. In 2016, in this state-level leadership role, she helped to pass legislation to update our state Visual and Performing Arts standards and reinstate the single-subject credentials in Dance and Theatre. She is the recipient of the 2016 Executive Director’s Award from the National Dance Education Organization for Excellence in Advocacy