A Distance Learning tool, Supplemental P.E. fun, and after school enrichment for Schools, Homeschool, and Independent learning. We combine creative expression and Social Emotional Learning (and Hip Hop Dance) to help build healthy, happy people!
The Pass to Class online program is based on hip-hop dance as a way to connect with students in a culturally relevant way, while also giving them key tools to understand and express their own emotions.
This plug-and-play program provides off the shelf culturally relevant distance learning curriculum with programs that have proven to inspire students and improve their behavior. What starts with dance quickly becomes a way to help teachers engage students in all subjects, with fun activities, brain breaks and confidence builders.
- “This innovative program gives kids a positive connection to school and a sense of self respect.” – Andrea Egan, Principal, Sacramento City USD
- “I didn’t know how to express myself. Dance gave me the tools to express myself so I can let go and feel everything and release. Dance is my outlet. It changes the game.” - Keke, middle school student.
Teachers can use Pass to Class to meet students where they are. It helps students engage their bodies, express their emotions, have a positive association with school, and focus on learning.
One-Move Grooves - Teachers start class off right with some physical movement and students start by mastering popular single moves.
Brain Breaks - Short, rapid, in-seat movements intended to get the child's blood flowing so he/she can refocus during intense lesson time.
Full Dance Routines - Build confidence and express emotions with more extensive programs, and “performances.”
Additional Programs - Founder Tee Sandifer also offers kids and teachers tips on how to improve their own personal performance including guidance on listening, engagement, staying relevant and other ways to connect with peers and students.
Homeschool parents and teachers can implement this program as the physical activity component of their educational curricula. The techniques taught in the program are fun, age-appropriate and engaging. The children will identify with what they learn because every lesson features socially relevant content that they want to learn.
The program will bolster student involvement in their school's culture by providing choreographed, current, culturally-relevant dance steps and routines that the students can learn and perform at school events. Experience has shown that these types of performances build confidence and grow student and parent involvement.
This off the shelf curriculum is already available on Canvas or you can leverage the existing Pass-To-Class online platform. Teachers can immediately and easily integrate the program into their existing Google Classroom and Zoom sessions.
The Pass To Class online program also meets California state standards for PE and Visual And Performing Arts (VAPA). Pass to Class is also SAFE AND COMMERCIAL-FREE.
Full Routines/ Celebrity
Master Classes
Do you have a function or event where a student-performed dance presentation would be appropriate? Have You ever dreamt of dancing with the stars? One aspect of our curriculum is to provide professionally-choreographed dance-routine instruction for students to perform in front of their peers with talent they admire.
PE Alternative
Physical Education programs are slowly disappearing in America and this program will enable teachers to re-insert physical activity into their classroom culture. The program will be equally relevant to teachers and parents.
In-Seat “Brain Breaks”
Studies have shown that occasional breaks in deep concentration (such as that in the classroom) can help students re-focus quickly and completely. The program will provide direction on how to teach students short, rapid movements to get their blood flowing. All without leaving their seats.
Now you can have a movement and motivational session in your classroom, gym, multi-purpose room, even outside!
NO CONTRACTS. NO COMMITMENTS. CANCEL ANYTIME
(We also have school campus and school district plans)
Tamaira Sandifer, affectionately known as “Miss Tee” by thousands of youth nationwide, has spent more than 30 years immersed in the world of dance and youth advocacy. She has dedicated her life to being a champion for the development of every child, so they can build confidence, character & a conquering spirit that believes anything is possible.
In 2005 she founded non-profit 3 Point - Studio T Arts & Entertainment (formerly Studio T Urban Dance Academy) and many key culturally and socially relevant programs under its umbrella. Dance became her primary engagement tool-- a culturally relevant way for her to connect with diverse youth. Because many of the families Miss Tee and her teams serve face poverty, hunger, and a systematic lack of opportunity, she has made it her daily work to include financial education, life and social skills training, and entrepreneurship coupled with real-world skill development and enthusiastic empowerment. As a former multi-generational welfare recipient, Miss Tee was determined to offer students the same tools that helped her and her family graduate from welfare - offering help with basic needs, family management training, and financial literacy strategies.
As the creator of the distance learning platform-PassToClass.com and Side Hustle Academy, her impact exploded across the country serving 192,000 youth and 7,800 educators nationwide during the pandemic. To bring relief to small businesses, youth without jobs, and offset the impact of COVID shuts downs in her city, Sandifer built a Sacramento-based Social Media Production Studio to support local small businesses with digital content support during COVID while training youth apprentices in creative-based entrepreneurism: video production, photography, graphic design, event production (virtually and live), and social media management.
Tamaira Sandifer is also the founder of California’s Day of Dance, a statewide dance celebration. Youth from different cultures and economic backgrounds clash, learn, and dance together on professional stages in Sacramento, CA, as well as honor dance legends and advocates with the “Dream Makers Awards”. California’s Day of Dance stands to become the first televised and streamed dance-only award show in 2022.
She holds a chair position on the American for the Arts-Arts education council, and a board seat with California’s for the Arts. Her graduates have traveled the globe working with artists like: Justin Beiber, JLO, Jabbawokeez, Usher, Brittany Spears, Usher, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Ellen, Beyonce and many others. In addition to being featured in movies, music videos, commercials, and on television, Studio T alumni have won international and regional Hip Hop dance titles, and were voted "Best of Sacramento". Through Sandifer's work with the juvenile Youth Detention Facility, Studio T was honored with a 'Volunteer of the Year' Award in 2015. In 2021 this Sacramento-based youth advocate, philanthropist was recognized by Forbes Magazine among the inaugural For(bes) The Culture 50 Champions list "Introducing the Black and Brown leaders making the most impact through their capital, creativity, connections and commitment." Miss Tee was also honored with a Woman of the Year award from the State of California in 2022 for her local, national, and global impact.
