Upcoming Continuing Education Classes

These are webinar and traditional classes offered by the Network and other members of Empire State Library Network. Please see each class description for more information about class location and registration.

Apr 2024

Apr 2 2024 : Teaching with Hip Hop

with Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly

 

This anti racist teaching workshop is a space for culture workers in libraries museums and archives to explore hip hop as a methodology for research and inquiry, as well as inclusive outreach strategy. We’ll be using lyrics and culture to locate geographies and histories, identify low maintenance lesson planning tools that you can use in the classroom, for programming, and collection development.

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Presenter Bio: Lauren Leigh Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Urban Social Justice Teacher Education program at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education. She is also the Founder of the annual Hip Hop Youth Research and Activism conference. Kelly taught high school English for ten years in New York where she also developed courses in Hip Hop Literature and Culture, Spoken Word poetry, and Theatre Arts. She also taught Hip Hop Literature at Five Towns College in New York; English Composition at Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York; and the Teaching of English at Teachers College, Columbia University. Additionally, Kelly provides professional development for teachers developing Hip Hop pedagogies in K-12 and college teaching across the United States.

 

 

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