In this professional learning program Baba Bomani will support teachers to be able to use aspects of hip-hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment. This active workshop will guide teachers to lead rhyme-based strategies to build student writing and communication skills using the five steps of the Writing Process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing).

Recommended Participants: Teachers

Learning Intentions

Educators will:

• Engage with the history of the hip-hop element of breakdancing and MC’ing
• Learn how to count bars in music through the art of breakdancing.
• Analyze the similarities and differences between essay writing and songwriting.
• Understand how to use “call and response” as a hip-hop educational tool.
• Apply techniques for improving writing skills. Integrate strategies for increasing vocabulary through creating rhymes.
• Employ techniques for rearranging or “remixing” sentences to fit the required style and format.
• Identify strategies to meet the needs of students with differing learning styles.
• Plan strategies to create a safe space for creative students.
• Apply aspects of hip-hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment.
• Lead rhyme-based strategies to build students skills in and appreciation of writing and communication.

YA Connections

NJSLS-VPA: Artistic Process; Creating; Anchor Standard 1: Conceptualizing & Generating Ideas Artistic Process: Connecting; Anchor Standard 11: Relating artistic ideas and works within societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Culturally Responsive Practices

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

Standard 3: Equity & Culture

Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

When you pair this program with Bomani’s assembly, he provides teachers with the in-classroom support implementing creative teaching practices, what they have learned into practice.