Maximizing Movement and Dance: Increasing Culturally Sustaining and Ability Responsive Practices

Saturday, January 25, 2025
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Description
Using folk dance and social dances (including contemporary/popular music), we will model ways to consider culture and ability to increase the likelihood that movement and dance foster student belonging. Come ready to move!
Speakers
Karen Salvador
Landon Black
Learning Objective 1
Participants will review broad tenets of universal designs for learning and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
Learning Objective 2
Participants will learn strategies for embedding these practices within folk and social dance in music class.
Learning Objective 3
Participants will learn new folk and social dances to take back to their classrooms.
Session Level
Elementary
Session Type
Demonstration