The Dance Curriculum Planner
The Dance Curriculum Planner
The Curriculum Planner inside the Dance to Learn® Membership is your all-in-one digital planning tool for every class you teach. Designed specifically for dance teachers, this powerful tool helps you organize your classes, clarify your creative vision, and instantly connect your plans to your ready-to-teach resources, so you can spend less time planning your classes and more time doing what you love: teaching. Whether you’re planning one class, a full week, or an entire season, the Curriculum Planner keeps everything in one place, beautifully organized and easy to access.
What You Can Use the Curriculum Planner For:
- Create individual class plans with class name, date, and time
- Brainstorm and document your theme, dance concept, and class goals
- Write a full lesson plan description for each class
- Attach direct links to our music playlists
- Attach direct links to your Dance to Learn® lesson plans
- Attach direct links to printable documents and class resources
- Add additional resource links for pulling specific activities from multiple lesson plans
- Building combo classes (like Ballet + Tap)
- Link to your student roster or add students manually
- Instantly prep substitute teachers with clear class plans and student info
- Keep all your class planning organized, searchable, and reusable
This is for you if:
- Dance teachers who feel scattered trying to track ideas, themes, music, and lesson plans in different places
- Studio owners who need consistency across multiple teachers, classes, and age levels
- Instructors who teach combination classes and want to blend multiple styles with ease
- Teachers who plan by themes, concepts, and objectives instead of random activities
- Mobile and outreach dance teachers managing multiple locations and rotating schedules
- Substitute teachers who need quick access to class structure, students, and resources
- Any educator who wants to walk into class feeling prepared, confident, and organized
This is not for you if:
- Prefer to plan everything on paper with no digital tools
- Don’t use lesson plans, themes, or class objectives in your teaching
- Are looking for a fully automated scheduling or billing system
- Aren’t ready to invest time into organizing your classes for long-term growth
Explore the Dance Curriculum Planner
Weekly Calendar View
The Weekly Calendar View gives you a clear snapshot of your entire teaching week at a glance. With an intuitive layout, you can quickly see what’s coming up and click directly into any day to begin planning your classes. No more hopping between notebooks, tabs, or apps, your full week of dance lives in one organized space.
How this benefits Dance Teachers:
- See your entire teaching week at a glance
- Quickly add new classes directly into the calendar
- Stay ahead of your planning instead of reacting last-minute
- Visually organize classes by day, time, and sequence
- Spot gaps, overloads, or planning conflicts instantly
- Reduce mental clutter by keeping your full week in one place
- Walk into each week feeling calm, prepared, and in control
Individual Class Planning View
The Individual Class Planning View is where each class fully comes to life. This is your dedicated space to plan every detail—from the class name and time to the theme, concept, goals, and full lesson description. Everything is laid out in a guided, organized format so your ideas move seamlessly from inspiration to a solid, ready-to-teach plan.
How this Benefits Dance Teachers:
- Ensures no important class details are missed
- Supports well-rounded, intentional lesson design
- Keeps your theme, concept, and objectives aligned
- Helps you plan versatile classes with purpose and variety
- Makes it easy to reflect, reuse, and refine lessons over time
- Builds confidence knowing every class is thoughtfully prepared
Dance Resource Linking
The Dance Resource Linking Feature is where your planning connects directly to your teaching. Inside this section, you can attach all of your essential class resources in one place: your music playlist, lesson plans, documents, and even additional activity links when you’re combining multiple classes or styles. Everything you need for class is just one click away.
How this Benefits Dance Teachers:
- Instantly access your music, lesson plans, and documents from one screen
- Eliminate last-minute scrambling for links and files
- Easily build combo classes (Ballet + Tap, Creative + Hip Hop, etc.)
- Pull specific activities from multiple lesson plans into one class
- Customize lessons without duplicating your entire planning process
- Stay flexible while keeping your class structure organized
- Set up substitute-ready classrooms with all materials in one place
Student Roster
The Student Roster View lets you connect your class plans directly to the students in each class. You can link a roster, add students individually, and keep important class-level information right where you plan your lessons. It’s especially powerful for substitute preparation, attendance support, and staying organized across multiple classes.
How this Benefits Dance Teachers:
- Quickly see who is in each class
- Add students manually or link an existing roster
- Stay organized when teaching multiple classes or age levels
- Easily prepare substitute teachers with clear class + student info
- Support smoother attendance and transitions
- Reduce confusion when multiple teachers share classes
- Keep student information connected to the exact class being taught
Why Dance Teachers Love the Curriculum Planner
Because it doesn’t just organize your schedule, it transforms how you feel walking into every class knowing you are prepared and prepped.
You Stop:
- Planning from scratch every week
- Holding everything in your head
- Rushing at the last minute
- Second-guessing your lessons
And You Start:
- Teaching with clarity and confidence
- Walking in prepared and calm
- Using themes and concepts with purpose
- Feeling proud of your planning again
- Having more energy left for your students (and your life)