Mission
The mission of Talking Hands Talking Feet is to serve as a versatile resource for parents and teachers worldwide—providing a comprehensive arts-integrated teaching toolkit that brings multiple arts into the heart of learning every day.
At the core is a wide range of original educational songs paired with movement activities. The mission is expressed through the songs themselves:
Talking Hands Talking Feet songs and movement arts connect deeply with children. These thoughtful works accompany and encourage young lives with a unique blend of depth, richness, simplicity, and an irresistible spark of wonder.
The mission of Talking Hands Talking Feet is to serve as a versatile resource for parents and teachers worldwide—providing a comprehensive arts-integrated teaching toolkit that brings multiple arts into the heart of learning every day.
At the core is a wide range of original educational songs paired with movement activities. The mission is expressed through the songs themselves:
Talking Hands Talking Feet songs and movement arts connect deeply with children. These thoughtful works accompany and encourage young lives with a unique blend of depth, richness, simplicity, and an irresistible spark of wonder.
Each song becomes a springboard of discovery into vital subjects: the rich mosaic of human cultures, the marvel of the human body, healthy living and family life, the wonders of the natural world, care for the Earth and reverence for life, and mathematical expression through natural pattern, number, and sequence.
Our teaching artistry brings children of the 21st century into arts-integrated ways of learning that respect and foster natural intelligences, holistic development, and the sanctity of human life.
Principles in Practice
- Provide instructors with practical tools that demonstrate how and why songs, rhythm, coordination, creative movement, dance, story theater, choreography, and language arts activate natural intelligences in young lives.
- Show the essential value of the arts as a foundation for development and education.
- Create neural pathways of connective learning through music, dance, song, and storytelling.
- Encourage both individual and ensemble genius with humility, humanity, and humor.
- Spark natural curiosity and discovery in every learning experience.
- Nurture belief, trust, and confidence in oneself.
- Cultivate compassion, flexibility, and collaboration in working with others.
- Foster bold, versatile expression through high-quality, meaningful content.
- Build respect for oneself, one’s body, family, and community life.
- Provide an ecology of safety and encouragement that honors each person’s inner life and natural inclinations.
- Strengthen communication skills through natural human theater arts.
- Generate enjoyable and engaging process-oriented projects that promote uninhibited creativity, improvisation and range of expression.
- Support multiple learning modalities to reach the full range of learners.
- Inspire a spirit of gratitude, generosity, and service.
Principles in Practice
- Provide instructors with practical tools that demonstrate how and why songs, rhythm, coordination, creative movement, dance, story theater, choreography, and language arts activate natural intelligences in young lives.
- Show the essential value of the arts as a foundation for development and education.
- Create neural pathways of connective learning through music, dance, song, and storytelling.
- Encourage both individual and ensemble genius with humility, humanity, and humor.
- Spark natural curiosity and discovery in every learning experience.
- Nurture belief, trust, and confidence in oneself.
- Cultivate compassion, flexibility, and collaboration in working with others.
- Foster bold, versatile expression through high-quality, meaningful content.
- Build respect for oneself, one’s body, family, and community life.
- Provide an ecology of safety and encouragement that honors each person’s inner life and natural inclinations.
- Strengthen communication skills through natural human theater arts.
- Generate enjoyable and engaging process-oriented projects that promote uninhibited creativity, improvisation and range of expression.
- Support multiple learning modalities to reach the full range of learners.
- Inspire a spirit of gratitude, generosity, and service.