Description: Thoughts on Teaching, Language, and Social Change from Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor
Thoughts on Teaching, Language, and Social Change from Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor
I have had the great joy and honor to be an invited speaker this year. I don’t take this for granted. 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. 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. And DaYENU ! It would have been enough to get to teach in the College of
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. 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. 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 othe