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COVID Dance Teaching Time Capsule
Jochelle Perena
May 26, 2021

Learning about art and allyship

Kitty teaching

“One moment I am proud of was when my students presented their original call and response piece to the whole school on Zoom. As a bilingual educator who is a product of colonization, it was transformative to investigate the connection between African American and Afro-Latin artistic expression with my third graders. We learned about history in the Americas through an antiracist lens and explored culturally relevant dance and music forms with experts from our classroom community and abroad. Ultimately this interdisciplinary experience allowed my students to deepen their sense of cultural identity and connect to African American culture by learning about art and allyship in a sociohistorical context.”

“Un momento del que me siento orgullosx fue cuando mis estudiantes presentaron su pieza original de llamada y respuesta a toda la escuela en Zoom. Como educadorx bilingüe producto de la colonización, fue transformador investigar la conexión entre la expresión artística afroamericana y afrolatina con mi clase de tercer grado. Aprendimos sobre la historia de las Américas a través de una lente antirracista y exploramos formas de danza y música culturalmente relevantes con expertos de nuestra comunidad de clase y del extranjero. En última instancia, esta experiencia interdisciplinar permitió a mis estudiantes profundizar su sentido de identidad cultural y conectar con la cultura afroamericana mediante el aprendizaje del arte y la alianzabilidad en un contexto sociohistórico.”
Cinthia “Kitty” Conlon, she/they/ella/elle
Bilingual classroom teacher
San Francisco Unified School District
Independent movement practitioner
Maestrx bilingüe en SFUSD
Practicante de movimiento independiente
SI Alum 2019

Taught synchronously, asynchronously, concurrently as a classroom teacher, and fully remote as a movement practitioner.
Enseñanza sincrónica, asincrónica, concurrente como maestrx bilingüe, y totalmente a distancia como practicante de movimiento.

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