We offer a wide array of dynamic and fun workshops and speeches for Educational Institutions, as well as small to large companies. Our workshops are designed to promote academic enthusiasm, diversity education, community development, and civic engagement.
Our use of unconventional mediums, such as Hip Hop Culture and Athletics, to convey our messages continues to be very effective in creating a truly educational and dynamic experience for students, faculty, and/or staff. We strategize creative ways to enable students to achieve their academic potential. Additionally, we provide professional development seminars for teachers. These seminars are designed to enable teachers/educators to utilize our practices within their own classroom milieus.
We have developed an array of Hip Hop based activities geared towards enthusiastically engaging your students academically. The residual effects of these activities encourage social interaction with peers, teaches valuable learning interventions, and is suitable for implementation into most secondary and higher education curricula.
There are five steps we effectively use to empower students academically. These steps connect students to education while using Hip Hop as a “bridge”. A brief overview of each one of these steps is listed below:
Usually well read and able to articulate, an MC controls the crowd through the use of well thought out storylines and a voice for the people. Within our curriculum, we have dedicated this first element to the development of our English / History component. We know that through using techniques introduced by MCs we can help improve short-term and long-term memory, comprehension skills, public speaking, and overall writing skills.
The one element is based on the DJ (Disc Jockey) who plays a large role in Hip-Hop. The DJ controls the music being played; he/she needs to be very knowledgeable about music old and new. Through Music, we can gauge the social, economic and political climates of past years. We have created linkages between music and epochs; by cross-referencing circa dates of particular songs we can teach history surrounding that particular year and time.
Another element surrounds the physical aspect of Hip-Hop that is called B-Boying. B-boys and girls could commonly be seen carrying cardboard or pieces of linoleum waiting for the next battle to occur. Battles usually consisted of two groups coming together in a dance contest. This contest was an exhibition of physical movement inspired by Hip-Hop music. By our own recollection, we can remember how much energy we burned break-dancing. These movements combined upper body strength, balance, and rhythm and would be a perfect compliment to the existing physical education curriculum.
This element revolves around the artistic visualization of Hip-Hop.
Typically known as graffiti, Hip-Hop artists used the streets as one huge canvas to create the artwork. Most of the art would be labeled criminal and offensive. These murals served as artistic representations gracing the side of buildings and trains often with messages pertaining to their social and economic surroundings. Many Graffiti artists were denied recognition through the eyes of America. Influenced by artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Da Vinci, and Picasso, graffiti artists dedicated their work to making Hip-Hop
colorful. We use graffiti to teach art history and supplement the
accompanying curriculum.
The Fifth Component of our plan is that of Mindset Transference (MT). Mindset Transference is an academically oriented student development model, which encourages enthusiastic application to the academic curriculum. We believe it has the overall ability to change the face of education. It can and will, serve as an additional resource in the classroom to help underachieving and honors students, alike. MT, however, does not stop there! It is a philosophy, which is also applicable in other areas.
