--- title: Ron Clark Academy Founder Dances With Students: Video description: His moves are actually quite impressive canonical: https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-04T22:44:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:46.166Z og:title: Watch an Atlanta Teacher Perform a Serious Dance With His Students og:description: His moves are actually quite impressive og:url: https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Atlanta Teacher Perform a Serious Dance With His Students twitter:description: His moves are actually quite impressive twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch an Atlanta Teacher Perform a Serious Dance With His Students ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 4, 2016 10:44 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 4, 2016 10:44 PM UTC Educator Ron Clark has gotten plenty of attention for his energetic and unique teaching methods, which often involve music. He’s even [appeared on _Oprah_,](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/04/ron-clark-academy-oprah-favorite-teachers%5Fn%5F7191938.html) where he has discussed the school he founded in Atlanta called the Ron Clark Academy. This week, Clark posted a video of himself and a few of his students rocking out together. They show off several dance moves—including the whip/nae nae and milly rock—as part of the [“Bet You Can’t Do It Like Me Challenge.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hl0aTooA90) And people were really, really into it. Within 14 hours of posting, the video had been viewed more than 1.5 million times and shared more than 44,000 times. “It’s hard to explain the Ron Clark Academy. It is a place that’s about passion, energy,” Clark [told ](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ron-clark-academy-atlanta-sets-success-confidence-future/)CBS back in March. “I wanted to create a school where you could feel the spirit, wanted kids to walk into this school and say, ‘I love coming here.'” Ron Clark Academy Founder Dances With Students: Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/"},"headline":"Watch an Atlanta Teacher Perform a Serious Dance With His Students","datePublished":"2016-01-04T22:44:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:46.166Z","description":"His moves are actually quite impressive","url":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/","name":"Watch an Atlanta Teacher Perform a Serious Dance With His Students"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4166877/ron-clark-academy-dancing-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```