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Here feel free to write your testimony, your story for others to see.  

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Here feel free to write your testimony, your story for others to see.  

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Holding space for questions that come up as we move through the session  

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Holding space for questions that come up as we move through the session  

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Here we can note ideas to take with us that will become part of our teacher tool kit.

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Here we can note ideas to take with us that will become part of our teacher tool kit.

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Latinx Dance Educators | Latinx Dance Educators Alliance

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Latinx Dance Educators Alliance is a consortium of Latinx dance educators in diaspora and a resource site for dance educators co-founded by Kiri Avelar and Michelle Manzanales.

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The Oasis | Latinx Dance Educators Alliance

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Latinx Dance Educators Alliance is a consortium of Latinx dance educators in diaspora and a resource site for dance educators co-founded by Kiri Avelar and Michelle Manzanales.

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I would like to honor R. Menchu (author, "I, Rigoberta Menchu") for promoting testimonio, under sceptical Euro-centric scrutiny, as a valid and important mode for communicating experience; as the presenters note, this is a consciously non-objective way to self-represent in context within communal knowing (Jeff Friedman).

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As a white dance educator, I can look back on my years of teaching and see moments in which I was not inclusive to particular students in my classes. Thank you for sharing your experiences so that I can reflect on mine.

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I am a white woman who teaches a majority Latinx population. I wish I spoke Spanish! I have tried a few times, but it has been hard during COVID. I always translate all of my classroom materials, though, and identify students who can help translate. I read aloud in Spanish, sometimes to my students’ chagrin. I would like to know more about the Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Dominican (and more) histories of my students. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know where to start, as there is so much I don’t know. I start with my students, though, and they are always happy to share. Even though I have so much work to do, I teach with love, and they are glad to be in my classroom as it is a more welcoming, democratizing space than a lot of the other ones that they are in throughout the school day because while language is sometimes a barrier, movement is a bridge. I am always asking students to share with me- I know that learning more is my responsibility, and it is not on them to “educate” me. However, they love sharing their traditions and are so welcoming and full of pride. I am grateful that I get to teach and learn from them every day.

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Here write down responses to your colleagues' shares as a way to engage in the conversation (plática).

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Here write down responses to your colleagues' shares as a way to engage in the conversation (plática).

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My student teacher is a Latinx dancer. For years I have been teaching the "Mexican hat dance" to my students. She asked me why I was calling the dance that, when in Mexico that is not what they call it. I have been on a journey toward more culturally responsive dance teaching, and I was so happy that she called me on this.