Making Sure The Kids Are Alright: Trauma-Informed and Culturally Competent Approaches For Navigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Making Sure The Kids Are Alright takes a holistic, person-in-environment approach to teaching and considers how the COVID-19 pandemic affects students on multiple levels. In this session, teachers will develop a foundational understanding of trauma-informed care and its implementation, define cultural competence and recognize the ways it is applicable to classroom teaching, and learn somatic techniques that support resilience and emotional regulation for both students and teachers.
Dr. Zuly Inirio is an Afro-Latina opera singer, scholar, and mental health advocate in the arts. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, a teaching artist with Hope Academy, an organization where young people of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds can study music and performing arts, and ARYSE, an organization that supports immigrant and refugee youth in becoming engaged, confident, and celebrated members of Pittsburgh communities. As a soloist, Dr. Inirio has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and was most recently featured in Austin Opera's Concerts at the Consulate. She actively pursues bringing awareness to Afro-Latinidad in classical music with her ‘Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project’ whose goal is to commission musical works that tell the stories of the Afro-Latinx community in the U.S. and through her artistry and activism, works toward representation and equity for BIPOC.