Christine Padgett - Ballet, Lyrical, Tap, Baton, Jazz, Combo, Creative Movement
Dr. Christine King Padgett is a Christian, a wife, and a mom of two young sons. Miss Christy was raised in the Birmingham, Alabama area. She began dancing at the age of three at Corky Bell School of Dance in Birmingham, AL. In the early 1990s, she began assistant teaching with her studio, helping with classes, summer dance camp, and even helping to choreograph and teach dance and streamer routines to the local high school marching band. She trained there for 15 years in tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, flag twirling, and baton twirling. In the mid-1990s, she left Birmingham to attend Auburn University, to pursue a degree in education. She continued to study dance while in Auburn, taking dance classes through the University in Social Dance and Modern Dance. Christy earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education (concentration in French), a Master’s degree in Elementary Education, and a Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Educational Psychology (teaching and learning track). During her studies, Christy learned not only teaching methods and techniques of planning educational curriculum, but also about the development, motivation, behavior, psychology, and learning of children and adults. She took a special interest in how the brain attends to, absorbs, sorts, stores, and retrieves information and skills. She completed her doctoral dissertation on the psychology of personality and gender identity, researching the influence of these factors on the choice of college major and career choice. Because of her advanced studies in both education and psychology, Miss Christy has special insight in how to motivate, reach, and teach her students in a developmentally-appropriate and engaging way. Miss Christy is a certified teacher with the state of Florida Department of Education. She holds Florida Teacher Certification in the following areas:
Preschool Education (Birth – Age 4) - Elementary Education (Grades Kindergarten – 6) Middle Grades Integrated Curriculum (Grades 5-9) - Social Science (Grades 5-9) Exceptional Student Education (Grades K-12) Miss Christy has also earned her Dance Teacher Certification through CLI Studios.