Learning Empathy Through Dance

Audrey Cleo Yap, The Atlantic: Education
Fri, 01/22/2016 - 10:57am

Learning Empathy Through Dance

Audrey Cleo Yap “Ch-ch-tsss. Ch-ch-tsss.” On a chilly Wednesday morning, Baja Poindexter sounded out the steps of the rumba to a classroom of fifth-graders at West Athens Elementary School, located in one of Los Angeles’s most violent neighborhoods. She encouraged her class of mostly Latino students to do the same.

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