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What's the difference between hip hop and rap music? Whether you think you know or don't know, check out this in-depth conversation with educator and recording artist Marcus Singleton. In this episode, Marcus walks you through the culture, history and evolution of the genres so that you can bring hip hop music into your education practice.

As plans are underway to return to school, some students are bracing themselves to head back to spaces where they are subjected to the pandemic of systemic racism. In this s ession, social justice educator, writer, and mother Elizabeth Charles shares her insights into the ever-present and often unconscious every day acts of racism that many students endure. Learn strategies on how to become a critical friend in our collective efforts to eradicate systemic racism within our wider school communities.

Janelle Brady shares recipe tips from her Caribbean cuisine and reads her poem titled: ‘In my Mother’s Kitchen: Spirituality and Decolonization’ from the Decolonizing the Spirit in Education and Beyond anthology edited by Njoki Wane, Miglena Todorova and Kimberly Todd. Bring your appetite for learning and unlearning decolonization—and good food!

How can we inspire and encourage students in music? In this episode, John Lettieri, a retired music educator, performing artist and composer, shows you how to guide students in their learning experience with music. Educators and students will challenge and deepen their relationship to music creation, performance, listening and learning.

In this episode, teacher Rich Baxter and student entrepreneur Henry Greenberg discuss what it takes to innovate in a classroom in a large urban school district. They share experiences with online student project-based learning, and ideas for overcoming some learning design challenges during the pandemic.