By Javiera Salman, Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report, June 9, 2022
Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher.
When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons. Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world.
Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes. That initial entwining grew into a much larger project.
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