Episode 17

BEHIND THE COMBO | EP 17 — with Casey Royer 🎙️✨

This conversation is for every educator who's ever wondered if they're really meeting their students where they are 👇🏻

In this episode, I sat down with Casey, Dance Educator and Past Studio Owner, to talk about teaching the whole child, and what it actually looks like to build dance education around how kids grow, not just how well they can perform.

Because the goal has always been about creating experiences that are right for the brain, the body, and the age in front of you.

We explored:

✨ What developmentally-appropriate dance education really means in practice

🧠 How the approach shifts as dancers grow across the years

🪞 The things we normalize in the studio that actually aren't age-appropriate at all

💛 How to handle the pressure to push kids beyond where they're developmentally ready

🌀 Whether the dance industry is keeping up with what we know about childhood development

This one is for the educators who want to teach smarter; when you understand the whole child, you become a better teacher for all of them 💜

▶️ Watch the replay and share one thing that hit different for you in the comments!