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Celebrating diversity, celebrating all kids and making sure that kids are represented in music are some of the things that Katie Norregard, better know as Miss Katie, cares about. She is a children’s musician, an early childhood music educator and content creator based in Chicago. Her songs and resources are focused on anti-bias & anti-racist education and social-emotional learning for young kids.
She shares “The classroom is not a truly neutral space because we're always bringing in our world-views, our preferences, our culture, our biases. When I started to think about that, I was reconsidering the structure what it looks like to be an educator, what it looks like to create content in this space, and what I wanted to share with children.”
Miss Katie joined us in conversation on episode 12 of the Music For Kiddos Podcast to talk about her music, her trajectory, and about being intentional with what we bring into music spaces with children guided by anti-oppressive lenses.
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If you are not following Miss Katie on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube then you definitely should! She shares spectacular songs, resources, and video snippets of her virtual classes, many of them modeling simple yet developmentally appropriate approaches to having important conversations with children.
Today’s resource:
Miss Katie has graciously shared with us a beautiful video of the call-and-response song “There Is Always Light”, a tribute and adaptation to Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb.”
If you’d like to see a video of Miss Katie’s class singing the song as a call-and-response and a brief discussion about what it means to be a light, being brave, and good things, watch this video.
Thank you so much Miss Katie for joining us in conversation!
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