Multilingual Science Theater Example

Equity

Embodied dramatizing pushes back on the Western body-mind split, and on classroom management practices that emphasize the policing and control of students’ bodies–particularly Black and Brown bodies
Science theater disrupts the division between the sciences and the arts, allowing a connection to “arts-based ways of knowing that align with Indigenous pedagogies that celebrate holistic ways of experiencing the world instead of privileging disembodied explanations of reality”
Embodied performance can be multimodal, playful, and joyful
Science theater can be multilingual, embrace translanguaging, and create space for students to articulate science concepts in their own words

Trees, Seasons & Shining a light on Farming Communities: Kinder Bilingüe

This video features Maestra Consuelo teaching dual language, Spanish & English, to Kindergartners in a rural farming community in Washington State. She connects science to the stories of the families and uses multiple examples and strategies of translanguaging as a way of honoring students and families knowledge, identities, and ways of being.

Meaningful Connections to People, Place, Community, Nature, and Power: Studio Learning

This tool is an example of studio professional learning (and a unit we co-designed) in which teachers shifted engineering curriculum to include meaningful connections to people, place, community, nature, and power.

¿Qué soluciones podemos crear para enfrentar la escasez de agua en un mundo cada vez más seco?: Aprender en un estudio bilingüe

This tool features a unit we designed on water scarcity and a studio professional learning model in a 5th grade dual-language classroom.

Multilingual Science Theater Example

Equity

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