What a great day at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on Wednesday May 16, 2018!
Here are the results!!!!!
(Photos by Kenneth Neely)
Grand Champion!!!


SILVER MEDALISTS



BRONZE MEDALISTS






Creating Connections. Inspiring Confidence.
What a great day at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on Wednesday May 16, 2018!
Congratulations to all of the teams! They looked great! They danced great! Everyone was a winner!!!
OUR SILVER MEDALISTS
Many thanks to Peggy Finnegan from WPXI-TV for this wonderful piece with our friends at Sister Thea Bowman Academy. A video is worth 1,000,000 words!
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Turn Back the Clock Tuesday? Well, we all can’t be perfect….and I let it go on for too long. What, you ask, did I forget? The 5th grade Colors of the Rainbow Semi-Finals video! Special shout out to Archie Carpenter for the wonderful photos!
Lights Camera Action!!! Special thanks to Archie Carpenter for his incredible eye!
You have seen the 5th graders-now here come the 8th graders! We couldn’t be prouder of them. Photos by Archie Carpenter and our Prevention staff. We have also dedicated this video in honor of a young man who worked so hard throughout the entire Dancing Classrooms residency-Juaun K., an 8th grader from Pittsburgh Langley, had made such tremendous progress – completely impressing Miss Gena and the staff. A couple of days before the finals, though, he had to have his appendix removed. We felt it important to do something special for this young man. If you could please share the video with at least 5 people, we think it would be a fantastic way to show him that he is a champion.
It was an exciting day in the Hill District Today was the culminating event for St. Benedict the Moor’s 5th and 8th grade Dancing Classrooms participants. St. Benedict began Dancing Classrooms in the winter of 2010. They along with three other schools that were part of the Extra Mile Foundation-St. Agnes, who merged with St Benedict for the start of the 2011-2012 school year; Holy Rosary School in Homewood and St. James School in Wilkinsburg-the latter two merged to become Sister Thea Bowman Academy in the fall of 2011-12, as well.
This year was also special because the 8th graders had had the program in the 5th grade. When teaching artist, Ms. Rozana Sweeney asked the audience, “How many of you have had Dancing Classrooms wither this year or previously,” almost half of the students in the auditorium raised their hands! For us at Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh, it was an exciting moment. Almost as exciting as watching the students themselves! Speaking of which, lets take a look at some pictures of the three classrooms in action!