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Kelsey Billiot
Founder / Teaching Artist
Meet Kelsey
Kelsey Billiot has been teaching in classrooms around Lafayette Parish with the PACE program since 2015. She began her career in dance studios as early as 2010.
As a teaching artist, she crafts creative movement lessons that include arts integration, social emotional learning skills, and curriculum connections. Through this work, she has executed grants and programs that expand upon movement into self care and wellness.
Her art is expressed through Space Lafayette, an artisan dance company. She created Breathe & Move in the Fall of 2019, as a response to the growing ask for movement and wellness for children. She finds inspiration in nature and real life experience to enrich her work. In 2022, her work evolved to speaking to educators and counselors on these topics.
Current Programs
Description:
Through school or grant funding, teachers or counselors can partner with Kelsey Billiot to create a series of sessions to support individual classroom or group needs. Ms. Kelsey works with the needs of individual schools to build resources that serve all who interact with the curriculum.
Artist Reflection:
Topics covered have included the transition to 5th grade, mindfulness in PE classes, and meditation for 4th-grade boys with extreme behavior infractions.
Description:
This workshop supports full time educators in incorporating movement in their classrooms. Using movement in the classroom teaches students physical regulation and emotional expression while nurturing kinesthetic learners. Blending creativity, self care, and curriculum, lends itself to a deeper comprehension for learners. We cover morning movement routines to regulate before learning, incorporating movement into existing curriculum, using movement as wellness & expression.
Artist Reflection:
Classroom learning has become increasingly stagnant, with a sharp increase in the last five to ten years. The removal of a second recess, longer instruction periods that involve sitting in one place, and inappropriate developmental requirements compound the lack of physical movement for children. Bringing more fun and movement in a palatable way is a mission of mine. Spending time in hundreds of elementary classrooms has allowed me to build an arsenal of support for classroom teachers.
Description:
This workshop supports full time educators in incorporating movement in their classrooms. Using movement in the classroom teaches students physical regulation and emotional expression while nurturing kinesthetic learners. Blending creativity, self care, and curriculum, lends itself to a deeper comprehension for learners. We cover morning movement routines to regulate before learning, incorporating movement into existing curriculum, using movement as wellness & expression.
Artist Reflection:
Classroom learning has become increasingly stagnant, with a sharp increase in the last five to ten years. The removal of a second recess, longer instruction periods that involve sitting in one place, and inappropriate developmental requirements compound the lack of physical movement for children. Bringing more fun and movement in a palatable way is a mission of mine. Spending time in hundreds of elementary classrooms has allowed me to build an arsenal of support for classroom teachers.
