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ADA Dance Educator/Employer Survey 2019

Alberta Dance Alliance Dance Educator/Employer Survey 2019

Researching Best Practices in HR for Dance Education in Alberta


Step 1 of 14 - Survey Background

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  • How-To: The survey is designed to be completed in under 10 minutes. Do not use your browser's 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons, use only the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons at the bottom of each survey section. Your progress can be saved, at the bottom of each section (a link back to your survey will be provided). By completing this essential survey, you contribute to a deeper understanding of dance in Alberta.

    Survey Background


    The Alberta Dance Alliance (ADA) is conducting a voluntary, anonymous survey of Alberta's dance education community. This community often asks ADA for information about best practices in HR and contract negotiation but up-to-date resources covering these topics, which are simultaneously specific to Alberta*, are lacking. This survey will help to fill those gaps.

    Our goal is to better understand the current state of this community and the relationship between employers and employees.


    * CADA/West and other sources are not specific to Alberta.

    This survey is the property of ADA ©2019, and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without permission.

  • I have read and understood the survey background and I am now ready to begin.
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  • Edu/Emp 1. Professional Identity

    Are you an educator, an employer, or both?
    An educator is defined as a person employed to provide instruction in dance; e.g. dance teacher, instructor, educator, etc.. An employer is defined as an entity that pays someone to give instruction in dance; e.g. dance studio, workshop coordinator, parent group, grade school, club, professional company, etc..

    Note: If applicable, you can complete the survey as both an educator and an employer. In cases where this survey addresses employers, singular and plural pronouns are interchangeable; e.g. 'we' can be read as 'i', and 'our' can be read as 'my'.

  • Educator Identity


  • Employer Identity

  • Please enter a number greater than or equal to 0.
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  • EDUCATOR SURVEY

    The following survey sections contain questions to be answered by an educator working in the province of Alberta. For those who are also completing the Employer Survey, it will be shown after the end of the Educator Survey. At the end of the entire survey, you will be able to provide long-form feedback if you wish.
  • Edu 2. Discipline(s)

    What discipline(s)/genre(s) do you specialize in teaching?
    This survey assumes that dance educators have specialized their dance and teaching practice in primary, and possibly secondary, disciplines.
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  • Edu 3. Teaching Location(s)

    Where do you teach?
    DO NOT name studios/employers.
    In which municipality of Alberta are you employed as a dance educator? This should be the municipality in which the greatest number of your payable hours occur. If your teaching is evenly distributed province-wide or is somewhere out-of-province, please explain that situation.
  • In which municipality are the majority of your instructional hours worked?
  • If applicable, in which municipality are the second-highest number of your instructional hours worked?
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  • Edu 4. Training, Experience, and Professional Development

    We are studying the career investments that dance educators make. While sharing your training, performance & work experience, and professional development below, please include highlights from your dance educator resume and any other fields of interest or concurrent career(s), e.g. a MSc in Biology, work experience as an office manager, etc.

    To maintain anonymity, do not include the name(s) of your employer(s). However, the names of educational institutions and other non-employment identifiers for where you trained/studied are encouraged.
  • WhereWhenDurationDescriptionNotes 
    You can add another training/education experience, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
    Where: where did you train/study (municipality, institution)?
    When: which year(s)?
    Duration: number of hours, days, months, full/part time, etc.?
    Description: describe the nature of your training/education.
    Notes: anything else you wish to mention about this experience.

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  • WhereWhenDurationDescriptionNotes 
    You can add another performance experience, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
    Where: where did you perform (municipality, company)?
    When: which year(s)?
    Duration: number of shows, weeks, full/part time, company member, etc.?
    Description: describe your role in the performance.
    Notes: anything else you wish to mention about this experience.

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  • WhereWhenDurationDescriptionNotes 
    You can add another work experience, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.

    If you were employed as a Dance Educator DO NOT name your employer, only specify the location.
    Where: where (municipality) did you work?
    When: which year(s)?
    Duration: number of classes, weeks/months/years, full/part time, etc.?
    Description: what work did you do?
    Notes: anything else you wish to mention about this experience.

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  • WhereWhenDurationDescriptionNotes 
    You can add another professional development experience, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
    Where: where was the professional development undertaken (municipality, institution)?
    When: which year(s)?
    Duration: number of classes, weeks/months/years, full/part time?
    Description: describe the disciplines or the non-instructional/non-dance work you were developing.
    Notes: anything else you wish to mention about this experience.
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  • Edu 5. Remuneration Range(s)

    In this section, we gather your current range of hourly pay rates, your satisfaction with those rates, and your ideal rate (considering your current training and experience).

    NOTE: We recognize that this information is personal and can be emotionally charged; therefore, we remind you that this is an anonymous survey. There are no right or wrong answers, nor are there expected values for minimum or maximum. If your minimum and maximum are equal, i.e. a flat-rate, please put that same value in both fields.
  • Discipline TaughtMinimum ($/hr)Maximum ($/hr)Satisfied? (Y/N)Ideal Rate? ($/hr) 
    Please add a row for each discipline you teach, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
    We are collecting the remuneration range of dance educators, per hour. Please use your most recent experiences as a gauge for the minimum and maximum hourly remuneration that employer(s) have paid you in your role as a dance educator in your primary location, for each discipline that you teach.
  • Discipline TaughtMinimum ($/hr)Maximum ($/hr)Satisfied? (Y/N)Ideal Rate? ($/hr) 
    Please add a row for each discipline you teach, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
    If the rates at your secondary location are different from those at your primary location, please enter them here.
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  • Edu 6. Contracts and Compensation


    E.g.: administrative tasks such as emailing parents, attending meetings, attending photoshoots; attending exams/festivals/competitions/recitals; designing or selecting costumes; traveling long distance for work; etc..
    E.g. Choreography for: recitals, competitions, shows, etc..
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  • EMPLOYER SURVEY

    The following survey sections contain questions to be answered by an employer of dance educators operating in the province of Alberta. At the end of the survey, you will be able to provide long-form feedback if you wish.
  • Emp 2. Teaching Location(s)

    Where in Alberta are you teaching dance?
  • In which municipality of Alberta are you primarily employing dance educators?
  • If applicable, in which secondary municipality of Alberta are you employing dance educators?
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  • Emp 3. Remuneration Range(s)

    In this section, we gather your most recent range of hourly pay rates, by discipline.
    NOTE: We recognize that this information is sensitive and can be emotionally charged; therefore, we remind you that this is an anonymous survey. There are no right or wrong answers, nor are there expected values for minimum or maximum. If your minimum and maximum are equal, i.e. a flat-rate, please put that same value in both fields.
  • DisciplineMinimum ($/hr)Maximum ($/hr) 
    You can add additional rows as required, by clicking the '+' icon after your entry above.
  • DisciplineMinimum ($/hr)Maximum ($/hr) 
    E.g.: administrative tasks such as emailing parents, attending meetings, attending photoshoots; attending exams/festivals/competitions/recitals; designing or selecting costumes; traveling long distance for work; etc..
    E.g. Choreography for: recitals, competitions, shows, etc..
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  • Emp 4. How do you determine compensation?

    We are gathering information/recommendations to share with dance educators so they know where to invest their time and effort in making themselves desirable to Alberta's employers, and how to gain the right training and professional development to provide superior instruction.
  • Provide your answer in terms of training, work experience, performance experience, and professional development.
  • We recognize there are non-instructional costs to providing dance education that may make it difficult to attract/retain the services of the best dance educators. What barriers do you experience?
    E.g. the economy, rent, fees, renovations, enrolment, or anything else that makes hiring the best dance educators in Alberta a challenge.
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  • End of Survey

    Thank you for taking the time to complete this important survey. Your valuable input will provide a better picture of our dance education community. Please share this survey widely with your colleagues in Alberta.

    If you would like to discuss anything in this survey further via email, telephone, or meeting with ADA, please connect with us at: info@abdancealliance.ab.ca or (780) 422-8107.

    This is an ongoing project, and there will be future opportunities to offer input and guidance. Please contact us directly if you have a passion for this topic.
  • We realize that it is often difficult to express yourself sufficiently in a tightly formatted survey. Please provide any additional, anonymous feedback (do not name educators, employers, yourself, or colleagues) relating to your responses in this survey or about your experiences employing or working as a dance educator in Alberta, positive or negative.

    The anonymity of this survey serves to protect all parties; however, as such, if you require our services as a service organization, we will not be able to reach you unless you contact us directly at the email or phone number listed above. Do not include your contact info or make a request for us to contact you in this "Feedback" form.
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The Alberta Dance Alliance acknowledges that as a provincial organization our membership and community dances on the lands of Treaties, 6, 7, and 8 and we respect the dances, histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Metis Nation, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.

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