1.  Training program - Your child couldn’t be in safer hands.  
WSPA boasts of a faculty who have been professional performers themselves and/or have master degrees in dance. The safe and correct training of your children is one of our major concerns.  WSPA progresses a child in slow stages, demanding no more of a young body than it can easily cope with.  Our faculty continues to invite guest artists to give the students the opportunity to acquire different styles and techniques.  See our roster of guest teachers in the section of Faculty.

2.  Individual attention is given to every student
Each student is dealt with individually so that a good working relationship develops between the teacher and the student. This allows us to discover and develop the talent inherent in each child. A teacher’s aide is provided in classes for ages 3 to 6, so each student is properly attended to.  

3.  Student Evaluation Report
Each year, the teacher submits a written progress report, summarizing the strengths and potentials of the child as well as her/his weaknesses. The evaluation keeps the teacher, student, and parents thoroughly aware of each student’s progress. It educates and informs the parents of the demands and expectations of the school in its efforts to provide high quality training.

4.  Recommendation Program
Teachers make recommendations as to which classes the child should take so that parents are guided along with their child’s training. Based on the student evaluation report and the Class Request Form each parent fills out at the end of the year, an individualized program is planned for the child. This recommendation program makes worthwhile all of the time, effort, and money spent on training.

5.  Performing Opportunities
WSPA conducts several big productions each year for all its students in the various disciplines of the arts.  The ballet department presents the full-length ballet Nutcracker at the Palace of Fine Arts, the musical theater and children’s programs present an annual musical holiday review in Serramonte Del Rey Theater, the hip hop and hula present Urban Paradise at the Bayside Theater every February and the entire school showcase a lavish  display of learned talents in the Yearend Showcase at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. WSPA students regularly receive invitations to perform at shopping malls, schools, dance festivals, city festivals, senior city socials, and tv appearances.

6.  Competition Opportunities
Why do we compete? Any true form of dance is not competitive but an expression of the art of movement. We enter competitions to set performance goals for the students. Competitions provide a challenge to both teacher and student. The challenge inspires them to work hard, find better ways of improving their training, and aspire for a higher level of performance as an individual and a group in each competition/performance.  They are taught to recognize that they are their own competition.

7.  Leadership Training Opportunities
WSPA encourages its advanced students who show an interest in teaching and choreographing to hone their skills.  They are given the opportunity to work alongside the master teachers as aides and eventually are given their own classes to teach.  WSPA has produced wonderful teachers who have moved on to be professional directors, choreographers, and master teachers.

8.  Community Involvement Opportunities
Parents and Guardians in WSPA work together with the faculty and staff in achieving the goals of the students.  Every member is welcome to volunteer, share their expertise in all areas and aspects of a production from fundraising, making sets, marketing, sewing costumes and providing food.  The WSPA community is a family that shares the commitment, dedication, and work in the pursuit of each student’s dream.