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2/01/2006
The Hip-Hop Association Partners with The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum To Present Elevate!: Using Hip-Hop To Educate.
A powerful collaboration is born that aims to help teachers bring Hip-Hop into the classroom with the 2006 Summer Teacher Institute
NEW YORK, NY (Jan 31, 2006) - As part of an ongoing mission to educate on the cultural significance of Hip-Hop and showcase its power to facilitate multidisciplinary learning both in and outside of the classroom, the Hip-Hop Association is pleased to announce that it will join forces with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to present the Museums 2006 Summer Teacher Institute, Elevate!: Using Hip-Hop To Educate.
Scheduled to take place from June 26 30, 2006, the Summer Teacher Institute brings K-12 teachers together with arts education specialists, activists, historians, curriculum designers, and performers to learn how to utilize Hip-Hop as a tool to educate, inform and empower todays youth. In addition to working with The Hip-Hop Association, the Museum presents the Summer Institute in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College and the Center for the Study of the Arts at Cleveland State University.
Shortly after the Museum's opening, the Rock Hall Education Department designed the Institute to introduce teachers to the history, sounds and communities of rock and roll music. Educators who have innovated in the area of popular music studies have shared their expertise, presenting a variety of successful applications of rock and roll music, its roots, and its branches in the K-12 learning environment. Through the study of such models, teachers identify ways to use music to deepen their own students engagement with language arts, geography, history, social studies, music, and beyond.
This year, the Summer Teacher Institute will provide a forum for the most cutting-edge discussions about popular music, art and culture in the classroom using resources from both the Museum and the Hip-Hop Association, including curriculum models from the Museums award-winning Rockin the Schools program and innovative programming drawn from the Hip-Hop Association's annual Hip-Hop Education Summits. The education and activist communities have truly appreciated our Hip-Hop Education Summits. They have provided the opportunity to learn and share about Hip-Hop and its legacy of empowerment. The Summer Teacher Institute is a great occasion to bring this dialogue to a larger platform. Were excited to be in a position to aid in this process, says Martha Diaz, President of the Hip-Hop Association.
The program:
Projected to bring together national and local teachers, organizers, parents, educators, social workers, scholars, and organizations, the program is a forum dedicated to connecting Hip-Hop culture with educational curriculums. Past participants in the Summit have included Bakari Kitwana, Raqiyah Mays, Selwyn Hinds, Toni Blackman, Hank Shocklee and Dr. Roxanne Shante.
From 8:30am to 5:30pm daily, teachers will interact with internationally noted authors and researchers, nationally recognized educators, and arts education specialists. Scholars at the vanguard of popular music studies who make teaching a priority in their work will lead the way. Representatives of the Hip-Hop Association, local arts education institutions such as Progressive Arts Alliance, and the Music Department of Cuyahoga Community College will discuss their efforts to bring popular music and culture into educational settings.
A team of full-time teachers who have successfully used Hip- Hop to teach critical thinking skills, language arts and communications, social sciences, music, and computer technology will join Rock Hall education Vice President Warren Zanes and programs managers Susan Oehler and Jason Hanley in leading small-group workshops. In a format that encourages participants to share their own experiences, explore instructional issues, and begin to tailor plans for their own classroom work, the workshops will showcase interdisciplinary lessons, units, and resources.
About The Hip-Hop Association
Founded in March 2002, the Hip-Hop Association [H2A] was formed to facilitate, foster, and preserve Hip-Hop culture. Producers of the largest Hip-Hop film festival and education summit in the world, its mission is to utilize Hip-Hop culture as a tool to encourage critical thinking, social change and unity, while empowering communities through media, education, and preservation and leadership initiatives.
For more information please visit: http://www.hiphopassociation.org
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form as well as through its library and archives and its educational programs.
For more information please visit: http://www.rockhall.com/programs/institute.asp
The Hip-Hop Association
Press Office
email: press@hiphopassociation.org
phone: 212-500-5970
NEW YORK, NY (Jan 31, 2006) - As part of an ongoing mission to educate on the cultural significance of Hip-Hop and showcase its power to facilitate multidisciplinary learning both in and outside of the classroom, the Hip-Hop Association is pleased to announce that it will join forces with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to present the Museums 2006 Summer Teacher Institute, Elevate!: Using Hip-Hop To Educate.
Scheduled to take place from June 26 30, 2006, the Summer Teacher Institute brings K-12 teachers together with arts education specialists, activists, historians, curriculum designers, and performers to learn how to utilize Hip-Hop as a tool to educate, inform and empower todays youth. In addition to working with The Hip-Hop Association, the Museum presents the Summer Institute in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College and the Center for the Study of the Arts at Cleveland State University.
Shortly after the Museum's opening, the Rock Hall Education Department designed the Institute to introduce teachers to the history, sounds and communities of rock and roll music. Educators who have innovated in the area of popular music studies have shared their expertise, presenting a variety of successful applications of rock and roll music, its roots, and its branches in the K-12 learning environment. Through the study of such models, teachers identify ways to use music to deepen their own students engagement with language arts, geography, history, social studies, music, and beyond.
This year, the Summer Teacher Institute will provide a forum for the most cutting-edge discussions about popular music, art and culture in the classroom using resources from both the Museum and the Hip-Hop Association, including curriculum models from the Museums award-winning Rockin the Schools program and innovative programming drawn from the Hip-Hop Association's annual Hip-Hop Education Summits. The education and activist communities have truly appreciated our Hip-Hop Education Summits. They have provided the opportunity to learn and share about Hip-Hop and its legacy of empowerment. The Summer Teacher Institute is a great occasion to bring this dialogue to a larger platform. Were excited to be in a position to aid in this process, says Martha Diaz, President of the Hip-Hop Association.
The program:
Projected to bring together national and local teachers, organizers, parents, educators, social workers, scholars, and organizations, the program is a forum dedicated to connecting Hip-Hop culture with educational curriculums. Past participants in the Summit have included Bakari Kitwana, Raqiyah Mays, Selwyn Hinds, Toni Blackman, Hank Shocklee and Dr. Roxanne Shante.
From 8:30am to 5:30pm daily, teachers will interact with internationally noted authors and researchers, nationally recognized educators, and arts education specialists. Scholars at the vanguard of popular music studies who make teaching a priority in their work will lead the way. Representatives of the Hip-Hop Association, local arts education institutions such as Progressive Arts Alliance, and the Music Department of Cuyahoga Community College will discuss their efforts to bring popular music and culture into educational settings.
A team of full-time teachers who have successfully used Hip- Hop to teach critical thinking skills, language arts and communications, social sciences, music, and computer technology will join Rock Hall education Vice President Warren Zanes and programs managers Susan Oehler and Jason Hanley in leading small-group workshops. In a format that encourages participants to share their own experiences, explore instructional issues, and begin to tailor plans for their own classroom work, the workshops will showcase interdisciplinary lessons, units, and resources.
About The Hip-Hop Association
Founded in March 2002, the Hip-Hop Association [H2A] was formed to facilitate, foster, and preserve Hip-Hop culture. Producers of the largest Hip-Hop film festival and education summit in the world, its mission is to utilize Hip-Hop culture as a tool to encourage critical thinking, social change and unity, while empowering communities through media, education, and preservation and leadership initiatives.
For more information please visit: http://www.hiphopassociation.org
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form as well as through its library and archives and its educational programs.
For more information please visit: http://www.rockhall.com/programs/institute.asp
The Hip-Hop Association
Press Office
email: press@hiphopassociation.org
phone: 212-500-5970
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