learning, and other opportunities
to demonstrate their learning through
the arts (e.g., role plays, visual interpretation
of readings, and creating
short movies). Students were welcome
to include cultural artistic knowledge;
one young student who immigrated to
the U.S. from the Dominican Republic
taught the entire class the history and
art of the music genre bachata and
helped the teacher co-choreograph
students’ final performance. For one of
our field trips, the students went to
Boston Improv Asylum to receive
professional performance training
from real actors