![]() I’m implementing this tomorrow! Great for SEL, vocab, brainstorm for writing.I want to create an atmosphere where making mistakes is okay.the rhythm chants were great for keeping kids focused on keeping the beat and tempo.What was the most valuable piece of information from this workshop and why? (If this will strike you as an irritating brag, please don’t read….) Image: Selfie at Weber State University, Ogden Utah’s Arts Integration Conference. ![]() So thank you to the conference organizers for sharing these warm words with me. ![]() The loudest among those to whom we are in service with our professional skills, are usually those who don’t like what we do or offer. might you try to let them know? We all need a little more kindness. And I want to remind you that if you, dear reader, are touched by a teacher, a poet, an actor or director, a restaurant experience, a childcare worker, a librarian, a police officer, etc. I don’t need these affirmations or expect them, but when these kindnesses come, I want to say: thank you. And I am all melty inside because what I hoped to have delivered was so warmly received. Attendees filled out evaluations on my keynote talk and workshop. I just hope I have done a good job and usually I never found out. But I don’t always know if what I have to give is working or worth it. But one never knows how it lands–as a formerly trained actress, I do try to read the room, to feel if the audience is engaged by reading bodies and eyes, listening for laughter or other sound responses. To write a talk or deliver a workshop in a way that is accessible and charged with something that feels new–it’s a special challenge. Now, to be invited to speak to teachers (one hour, one day, two days) in Maryland, Utah, and Tennessee this year about integrating the arts and language education is filled with additional joy. And DaYENU! It would have been enough to get to teach in the College of Education at the University of Georgia to prepare language educators (English language arts, World language, TESOL) for so many beautiful years. It would have been enough to have been able to go to graduate school and work with undergrad and graduate students in education in Santa Cruz California and Philadelphia. It would be enough ( dayenu, insider expression) if I had been able to teach bilingual education in and through the arts to children in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. I have had the great joy and honor to be an invited speaker this year.
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