Built by a teacher who needed it too
If you teach dance, you probably have a planning system. It might be a notebook. It might be a spreadsheet. It might be a folder of documents that made complete sense when you first put it together and is now a small disaster.
You spend more time managing the plan than actually planning. And none of the general tools quite fit, because they were not built for how dance classes actually work.
That is the problem Dance Class Builder is for.
Who built this
My name is Kim Shope. My students and families call me Miss Kim, and honestly that is a more accurate introduction than anything else I could lead with.
I have been part of the Kansas City dance community since 1981. I trained at the Kansas City Ballet School, danced professionally for fourteen years, and taught in the ballet school while I was still performing. In 1998 I opened Midtown School of Dance and ran it for nearly a decade. After that, I spent sixteen years as Head of the Dance Department at Kansas City Young Audiences, building curriculum, managing instructors, and planning classes for up to 350 students a year.
That is a long time to be working around a planning problem with tools that were not built for it.
Where this came from
A few years ago I built an earlier version of this idea. A Dance Class Planner, first as an editable PDF, then as an online form. It helped some teachers. It was better than nothing. But it was not really built for the job. It could not grow with you. It could not track what you taught across sessions. It did not reflect how dance class planning actually works, which is nonlinear and always in progress.
I kept running into the same ceiling.
Dance Class Builder is what I built when I decided to solve the problem correctly instead of working around it again.
Who it's for
Dance Class Builder is for teachers who plan real classes: studio instructors, company teachers, independent teaching artists, and choreographers. If you are managing curriculum across multiple classes, tracking what you have covered, and trying to keep a clear sense of where each group is going, this is what it is designed for.
It is not trying to do everything. It is trying to be the planning tool I always needed and could not find.
If that sounds useful, you can try it free. No commitment, no card required.
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