For Your First Year with This Product

1. Start by reading the lesson plan for the level you're currently teaching not as a lesson plan, but as an orientation. Pay attention to "The RPM Lens" section at the top. This tells you the philosophy of the level before you look at the exercises.

2. Use the Class at a Glance table to structure your week. Decide in advance which sections you'll emphasize on which days. A typical week might look like:

- Monday: Full barre + centre adagio

- Wednesday: Full barre + centre turns + allegro

- Friday: Full barre + grand allegro + révérence

3. Open the lesson plan before class. You don't need to follow it exercise by exercise — it's a reference, not a script. But having it open lets you pull RPM cues and corrections in real time.

4. Use the Student Readiness Checklist at the end of each semester to make advancement decisions. These checklists are intentional — a student who checks every box consistently is ready to advance; one who checks most boxes needs more time.

For Ongoing Use

- Rotate the sample combinations: they're starting points, not permanent fixtures. Use them for several weeks, then build your own variations using the same exercises.

- Pull the RPM process cues when you're stuck on how to explain something. The cues in each lesson plan come directly from The Dance Teacher's Cueing Handbook — they're field-tested and principle-grounded. If you find yourself using them regularly and want the full framework — all 14 principles with expanded cues, common corrections for each, and the language to explain why movement works the way it does — the Handbook is the natural companion to this product.

Get The Dance Teacher's Cueing Handbook:

https://rpmdance.teachable.com/p/the-dance-teachers-cueing-handbook

- Reference the RPM Principles Integration Summary at the end of each lesson plan when designing new combinations. If you're not seeing Two-Way Energy anywhere in your centre work, it's time to add it.