#HipHopEd Chat is a weekly cyber cypher (chat) where stakeholders within Hip-Hop and Education come together to discuss issues that impact the youth and adults within our local, national and global communities. #HipHopEd Chat is a virtual form of professional development for Educators, workshop for Parents and other Adults and a brainstorming session of Hip-Hop practitioners. Our #HipHopEd chats are every Tuesday from 9-10 EST. on Twitter.
i am always cautious about thinking of my #HipHopEd work as ‘utilizing’ or 'using' African American music and culture, especially as someone who does not identify as African American.
We have to be mindful to not place our opinions of music as facts about the youth that listen to the music that we have strong opinions about #HipHopEd
Much love to Sun Ra, Parliament, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae and other afrofuturist artists. Because of them, I continue to hope for and reimagine life without violence, both in and outside the classroom. #HipHopEd
Much love to Sun Ra, Parliament, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae and other afrofuturist artists. Because of them, I continue to hope for and reimagine life without violence, both in and outside the classroom. #HipHopEd
Two of my students and myself have been creating a hip-hop curriculum that we're going to be teaching in a 6 week summer program that uses hip-hop as an academic subject. Still a couple things left to get done but I'd love to share it with you all when we're done. #HipHopEd
Music should be a central part of our experiences in the classroom. Couldn’t imagine a day in the classroom without it! It makes our space more welcoming, and I can’t tell you how many conversations have started because of a song that happened to be playing. #HipHopEd
Black music has always had the double duty of having sight and vision. Showing what's happening while describing what could/should be happening #HipHopEd
Two of my students and myself have been creating a hip-hop curriculum that we're going to be teaching in a 6 week summer program that uses hip-hop as an academic subject. Still a couple things left to get done but I'd love to share it with you all when we're done. #HipHopEd
"This is America" record was pivotal in encouraging some of my Black male students to become comfortable with expressing themselves through exploratory dance . #HipHopEd
So many artists working to visualize justice & ways forward. Like @JIJennings for example as well as so many others linking hip hop & aesthetic resistances #HipHopEd
@AVTHEGREAT speaks about this when he has presented on hip-hop culture with pre-service teachers, trying to disrupt their preconceptions about hip-hop #HipHopEd
We have to be mindful to not place our opinions of music as facts about the youth that listen to the music that we have strong opinions about #HipHopEd
"This is America" record was pivotal in encouraging some of my Black male students to become comfortable with expressing themselves through exploratory dance . #HipHopEd
Definitely will, I'm so excited. The work these two girls have been putting in to make it happen is unlike anything I've ever seen from a student! Crazy how into learning they'll get when it involves things that are actually relevant to who they are. #HipHopEd
Music should be a central part of our experiences in the classroom. Couldn’t imagine a day in the classroom without it! It makes our space more welcoming, and I can’t tell you how many conversations have started because of a song that happened to be playing. #HipHopEd
What would be the best way to incorporate hip hop into your daily curriculum without adding it at the end, appearing as an afterthought of the standards? #HipHopEd
You have to be O.K. with not being able to fully feel some music because of the context of its creation and the walls you may have up inside based on your realities #hiphoped
As a science teacher, I’m reminded of how @chrisemdin has pointed out the fascinating similarities between a person engaging in inquiry-based science, and a person using critical thought to spit lyrics in a cypher. Our students already come equipped w/ tools for success #HipHopEd
Love this idea... the rhythm of AA music and the storytelling inherent in its history can be such valuable mentor texts and springboards for reflective writing, speaking, and socializing in our school communities #HipHopEd
They would usually do the "lit" dances but when that record came on, students seemed focused on exploring other movements similar to Childish Gambino & mimicked his moves #HipHopEd
I may depend on the subject that you are teaching but you can do things like have it playing as Ss enter into the space or incorporate aspects of the pedagogy into your class such as cyphers and group/crew dynamics. #HipHopEd
An easy way to bond with your students is by being knowledgeable to the music they're listening to. Can't count the amount of times I've dropped a Cardi B reference that my kids have flipped out over, sparking a whole personal conversation. Study up, teachers! #HipHopEd
Truth! I’ve never once met a student - or human being for that matter - who was not interested in learning. It’s a fundamental human experience to love learning; it just has to be in a way that is natural, and enjoyable to us. #HipHopEd
You can also take a thematic approach and using Hip Hop narratives as a means to helps students explore certain topics in a disciplined manner. #HipHopEd
Black Music is so powerful that its influences are seen within youth cultural expressions often times without acknowledgment of the source of the influences; its spiritual #HipHopEd
There are endless ways, but at the expense of my sounding vague, one has to frame what their goals look like first. Music is exceptionally flexible, and can be worked into nearly anything. I’d be happy to brainstorm with you! #HipHopEd
As Educators we can challenge ourselves to develop lessons and approaches to teaching that have a reverberating impact on Ss the same way music has on the culture #HipHopEd
We all have an obligaion to overcome the environment we were born into. Anam Cara: Your Soul Friend And Bridge To Enlightenment And Creativity penned by Spiritual Teacher, Author, and Thought Leader @glenvilleashby is your passport to rebirth and success.https://t.co/PACBzvgDyw
Like Jazz, HipHop demands to be listened to not simply heard. Planning is necessary because casual inclusion ignores the message. Ever see someone just try to slip in a tune? I have. It was bad. #hiphoped
I learned this about ten years ago: My conviction with certain songs/lyrics may not be others, especially youth. I have learned to respect that instead of being condemning of such. #HipHopEd
Black Music has often been a source for the exploitation of communities and the trafficker of destructive narratives that promote segregation, profiling and hate #StayWoke#HipHopEd
I form a large portion of my classroom time throughout the year as a cypher. Learning with each other, wrestling over tough topics, teaching our peers as we go as opposed to everyone being an island and learning individually. Keeps kids engaged and interested. #HipHopEd
Exploring broad roots can aid in resisting co-optation. Jamaican culture is central to hip hop culture. There’s are reasons why this is so. That’s a whole unit right there. #koolherc#hiphoped
Talking “shop” with our students makes us more human, and tears down the arbitrary barriers that are erected by our oppressive system of education. Being human is not being weak; it simply makes us a teacher who cares about our kids, and they notice! #HipHopEd
As your relationship deepens with youth you can always express your opinion and based on your willingness to listen to them they will listen to you #HipHopEd
That's something I have been thinking a lot about while developing lesson plans- intention, delivery, and product. The best in Hip Hop have those things on lockdown. #HipHopEd
Dopeness. There is something magical about Black boys dancing. In a society that robs them of full expression, it is powerful for them to control their own bodies #HipHopEd
One of the best things I learned at this year's conference was that I have to stop deciding what's "good" or "not good" in terms of hip-hop and recognize that these kids have their unique entry points into their music that I don't and I need to meet them there. #HipHopEd
Asking students to tell you why a song speaks to them —or FOR them — is a high level task. Need to develop some serious scaffolding. (Maybe) surprisingly good resource for this is opening chapters of Copland’s “what to listen for in music” #hiphoped
That's something I have been thinking a lot about while developing lesson plans- intention, delivery, and product. The best in Hip Hop have those things on lockdown. #HipHopEd
Ss come from all backgrounds and experiences. Music has the ability to challenge and critique content we teach. As Chuck D and Flavor Flav said, "history shouldn't be a mystery, our stories are real history, not HIS story." #HipHopEd
Yes! @JustGregPoet talked a lot about the importance of Black boys having control of their bodies and not being ashamed when he spoke to our Ss. #HipHopEd
Plan a lesson highlighting resistance in AA music. Start with slave spirituals, move to Jazz and bring it home to Hip Hop. @drgayleserdan does this wonderfully in her music appreciation class. #HipHopEd
Exactly. They are way more comfortable sharing and opening up in a classroom when you tear those barriers down. Instead of talking as "smart teacher with all the answers" vs. "kids who need to know what I know" we pose it as "just a bunch of humans teaching each other." #HipHopEd
I’d love for tchrs & studts 2 explore how other art forms (capoeira, graffiti, etc) are inexorably linked to AA musical traditions & freedom movements. #basquiat#hiphoped
I agree with you- it needs to be deeper and there needs to be follow up questions to really cause the students to process at a higher level of intellect instead of saying “cause I feel what he is saying” #HipHopEd
He breaks it down: listen for what you love, listen for emotion (your own response as well as the composer’s intent), listen for technical aspects of the tune/arrangement/instruments etc. work to analyze on those three levels. #hiphoped
Not only does it influence our youth, it influences nearly every facet of American society! Nearly every popular form of music in movies, malls, sporting events, shows, etc., etc., etc. can trace its roots to Black Music. #HipHopEd
Make sure you check out our special four part Hip-Hop on the 8 series where we will delve into Hip-Hop from 1988, 1998, 2008 and 2018. #HipHopEd July Series
I use Tupac for revolutionary war and introducing it... his poem Liberty needs glasses.. it’s very easy... And Lupe Fiasco’s American Terrorist can be used for today’s society.... #hiphoped
I remember being in grade school and making a beat with my mouth – beatboxing – or on a school desk/lunch table, and creating or reciting lyrics about anything without singing #HipHopEd
By allowing your true self as an educator to shine, you invite students to do the same. Rapport building, and subsequently dope school culture, cannot happen if we aren’t real. #hiphoped
For me, hip-hop is such an effective therapeutic tool for working with young people. The lyrical content is a vehicle for building self reflection, learning, and growth #hiphoped
This makes me want to go on a science nerd tangent about energy and its conversions!! Students come with an incredible amount of potential energy, and the form of “kinetic” is up to us. Do we facilitate productive movement, or stymie it? If the latter, they’ll clown!#HipHopEd
Teachers need to develop capacity for explication & exploration. It’s cool for them to feel it, but to analyze & articulate adds another level of agency. #hiphoped
One the album by The Carters, the song “713”, Jay-Z definitely shared some real exclusive content on the relation between people of color and the police. Not to mention how he blend an mixture of Common in there, Super dope! #HipHopEd
“After leaving this class, I wondered why the ability to plan a lesson, and not the ability to connect with students, was the prerequisite for being a model teacher.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Dear teacher, the student tapping on the table w/ their pencil is creating a rhythm to connect to the ancestors & transport away from an oppressive classroom #HipHopEd
In my stint as a sub, my AfAm 6th graders (whom I was with throughout the year), asked ME to use rap/dance battles at the end of the day as incentives for learning/positive behavior. It just so happens that I can freestyle and dance pretty well (not bragging but...) #HipHopEd
Having grown up doing those things for fun, experiencing AfAm culture, and being relatively knowledgeable about it, I found the battles we had to be organic. There were a mutual respect and community being built (even as a sub!). #HipHopEd
My prior experiences with the culture formed pieces of my T identity, which led to the organic nature of those moments. It wasn't a white T dancing with his black Ss. Instead, it was a complex person with pieces of a culture interacting ... #HipHopEd
... with equally complex people who happened to have much larger pieces of that culture. Nonetheless, it was shared. My experience made the culture personal and part of me--not something that remained in theory and textbooks. #HipHopEd
With that came its natural invitation into the classroom--that came from my Ss feeling seen and heard, since they were willing to make the request--AS OPPOSED TO reducing my Ss to their culture in a skewed and far-removed way. #HipHopEd
Inevitably, after this, Ss wanted to dance and rap throughout the day, which had to be balanced and managed. But the culture was in the classroom to STAY. Even if it meant catching an imaginary ball a S lobbed to me during teaching and hitting dem folks mid-sentence. #HipHopEd
Even just reading the words, "... control their own bodies" gave me a physical response. But your overall comment (obviously) holds an especially powerful meaning, considering history & current events, and the overwhelming connection between art & expression. Love this. #HipHopEd
Dopeness. There is something magical about Black boys dancing. In a society that robs them of full expression, it is powerful for them to control their own bodies #HipHopEd
Most may go to church once a week and would never imagine beginning service w/o music but we expect our students to enter our class everyday for class in silence #hiphoped
When we allow Ss to be fully be hip hop in schools, we open up the doors for community collaboration and parent engagement in ways we could have never imagined. #hiphoped
My prior experiences with the culture formed pieces of my T identity, which led to the organic nature of those moments. It wasn't a white T dancing with his black Ss. Instead, it was a complex person with pieces of a culture interacting ... #HipHopEd
This is where I think it's so critical to give ss the reins and make constant space for this emotional analysis & articulation work.. great way to assess too, let their reflections speak for their engagement with #HipHopEd pedagogy
In the spirit and power of music #HipHopEd wants to send love and light especially to the communities in Pittsburgh and in the Bronx. Through the rhythm of our heart beats we feel you now!
The culturally informed spaces we can create for youth today, are the spaces their parents wish they had when they were in school. They rebuild trust, hope, and investment in a system that failed them. #hiphoped
Most may go to church once a week and would never imagine beginning service w/o music but we expect our students to enter our class everyday for class in silence #hiphoped
You're right but what about school admins that relate "peace and quiet" as "better" classroom management practices and believe music is a "distraction" to learning? #HipHopEd
You're right but what about school admins that relate "peace and quiet" as "better" classroom management practices and believe music is a "distraction" to learning? #HipHopEd
Not only that, but it creates a far more welcoming environment in the school. Visitors notice when they’re in a space that is shared. It is warm, loving, and energetic, as opposed to the cold, sterile, icy environments we’re apparently “supposed” to have in schools. #HipHopEd
School admins also like to see production from classes, though. Maybe the higher production of a classroom setting they don't identify with will help shift their ideas of a "good" classroom. #HipHopEd
Don't be afraid to bring your playlist to class and remix it with the playlist of your students. You will find more in common than you think if you take the time to think #hiphoped
Scholars and storytellers should always be one and the same. Somewhere along the way, some societies arbitrarily split the two and created an unnatural system where scholars became gatekeepers, and not sharers of knowledge. We must undo this. #HipHopEd
I use Black Music because of what it means to me. It is not presenting content that I don't have a connection to and this translates to the Students feeling and receiving me as I them #HipHopEd
@chrisemdin as a preservice teacher, my MC is motivated concern- learning everything I can in order to be as empathetic as possible to the needs and interests of my future students. #HipHopEd already feels like a top resource to cultivate this
