Christopher Emdin @chrisemdin Twitter profile

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Christopher Emdin

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6 years

@polinaemm If she has my book out on the train with pen in hand, she's getting equipped to do good work. Trust me #HipHopEd

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2 years

The most poignant diagnosis of the disease #KanyeWest is currently displaying symptoms of was offered by #JamesBaldwin in 1971

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4 years

It is unethical to expect teachers to return to in-person classrooms in the fall when their level of exposure to the virus will be exponentially increased. You only gamble with the lives of people you have no value for

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4 years

We teach students before curriculum. We reach souls before standards. We teach character before content. In that order or its not really teaching at all #HipHopEd #GoodTroubleEdu

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4 years

So a dude without an earned doctorate is asking a person who earned one in EDUCATION to not use their earned title. This person does not mention that the word doctorate comes from the word dottore which means TEACHER #CarryOn #WallStreetJournal #DrJillBilden

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4 years

The best project an educator can work on this summer is themselves. Imagine the teacher you aspire to be & read/study/mediate/practice/work in pursuit of that vision #HipHopEd

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7 years

The kind of teacher you will become is directly related to the kind of teachers you associate with. Avoid people who are unhappy and disgruntled about the possibilities for transforming education. They are the enemy of the spirit of the teacher #HipHopEd

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3 years

Even though remote learning is difficult for many, some youth are having the best learning experiences of their lives right now. Some are thriving while away from schools that invoke trauma. We must work to understand these multiple truths if we are to truly teach #sunchat

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Christopher Emdin

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4 years

An educator who feels unsafe, uncared for & devalued cannot give their full selves to their work. Basic human needs extend to those who teach as much as they do to those who are to be taught

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Christopher Emdin

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4 years

Heres the thing. The behavior we are seeing exhibited by these two White men in suits & ties on a national stage would result in suspensions that leads to entanglement with the criminal justice system for Black children #HipHopEd #Debates2020

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4 years

Create a classroom that is a microcosm of the world you want to live in not a replication of the world we currently have #HipHopEd

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4 years

Happy World Teachers Day to all who have chosen the most noble of professions. May your words inspire, the worth of your work be upheld, and the fruits of your labor be multiplied upon you and those whose lives you touch #InternationalTeachersDay #WorldTeachersDay #Salute

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Christopher Emdin

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3 years

Those who teach must find something they love outside of their work in order to do their work. Teaching is not supposed to consume you it is supposed to enhance a you that’s already there. #LCActivate #LincolnCenterEducation

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4 years

For the record, “this is not who we are” is code for this is not the version of ourselves we wanted revealed. The shock & outrage we are seeing is so much more performative than reflective that it will not be instructive. That is the piece of this debacle that angers me most

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2 years

Be kind to people. You never know what they are carrying. That’s all. That’s the tweet.

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3 years

Shoutout to all the teachers. Credentialed or not. Licensed or not. Graduate degree or not. The ones who makes souls sing and help us to pursue the best versions of ourselves. You are deeply appreciated #HipHopEd #TeacherAppreciationWeek

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4 years

I'm bout to get ya'll all upset at me again but here goes..... A teacher does not need CS or STEM mastery to teach those subjects effectively. In fact, I would prefer a novice with passion willing to learn WITH students than an expert lost in their own knowledge #HipHopEd

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4 years

They bout to do to anti-racism what they did to culturally relevant pedagogy. Just here waiting for the first one of em to share their rubric 🤦🏾‍♂️

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4 years

Good teaching is modeling discomfort. it is sitting with what you are struggling to articulate and letting your students/peers/family watch you struggle... & eventually overcome. This is especially important for White folks as they engage with each other around race #HipHopEd

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4 years

Create a classroom that is a microcosm of the world you want to live in and not a replication of the one we currently have #HipHopEd #PeaceLoveUnityFun

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4 years

Don't be mad at Zoom and online learning. It is only magnifying the poor pedagogy that was hidden behind your classroom doors #HipHopEd

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6 years

Dear new teachers, Your appointed "mentor" can poison your passion for the work. Find who is aligned to you even if they aren't assigned to you #HipHopEd

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4 years

We need hip-hop history courses in K-12 classrooms. We also need updated curriculum in history, social studies and art that uses hip-hop music & culture as the lens through which we study our past & reimagine our future #HipHopEd

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4 years

You cannot love students if you do not love the community that they come from #HipHopEd

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4 years

Dear White friends, You cannot be "antiracist" when you stumble all over yourself to say the word Black in front of people. #HipHopEd

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4 years

Imma need White folks (particularly the “woke” sect) to engage with me about whatever they please but offer critique not wrapped in their thoughts on my ego, arrogance & tone. I’m a Black man who operates within a system designed to break me who refuses to shrink for you. Be mad!

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6 years

These idiots are truly considering arming teachers with guns when we haven’t even provided them with the proper teaching supplies #parkland

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4 years

Never underestimate the power of this phrase on someone who is working through something "I see you. Keep going" #HipHopEd

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3 years

To teach is to have the opportunity to live forever. There is no other profession where one has as many opportunities to change the world #HipHopEd

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6 years

Model self care for your students. Let them see you take a minute. Let them see you breathe deeply. Vulnerability is part of good pedagogy #HipHopEd

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4 years

My essay in @TheAtlantic this week is about making #GoodTrouble in education #GoodTroubleEdu #HipHopEd

Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior

It’s about reaching students where they really are.

www.theatlantic.com

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4 years

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. Pablo Neruda

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3 years

Traditional assessments like #SAT are great at telling us things like..... how well they memorize, how much their parents paid for test prep, how great of a day they were having on the day of the test. Not too much more #OverhaulAssessments

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6 years

A students academic success is directly connected to the belief that educators have in them #HipHopEd

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6 years

Equity requires immediacy. Waiting till the conditions are right & the resources are available amounts to endorsing injustice

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3 years

The first step to teaching effectively is to create a space where young people feel welcome. If they cannot be themselves in the classroom, they will not learn from you #HipHopEd #RadicalWelcoming

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4 years

A curriculum designed around the real people #ChadwickBoseman played -James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson and then ending with the fictional character of T’challa would be powerful. His movies/interviews would be the required text. #HipHopEd #ItsOn

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6 years

You can’t make someone woke but you can make them uncomfortable being asleep #WeLeadEd #HipHopEd

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4 years

By the way, both the "stand back and stand by" statement & the consistent "Law and Order" refrain are dog whistles to racist groups & JUSTIFY the need for critical race theory and racial sensitivity training #HipHopEd #Debate2020 #JustSaying

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4 years

Countdown to the "...but she used to" and the "she once said that" and especially the "she is against the..." Congrats. You're right. You're the wokest. Now can we get four five the hell up outta there?

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Christopher Emdin

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6 years

You don’t teach activism you create the conditions to allow young people to imagine a more just world #HipHopEd

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3 years

Professor friends, This time of year is tough for college students. Sometimes it feels like the world is crashing down. Be kind. That paper doesn’t need to be due by that made up deadline. Just because you were tortured doesn’t mean you have to invoke the same trauma #CarryOn

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4 years

You cannot claim to care about young people if you do not extend that same care to those who have been charged to educate them. That is the ultimate hypocrisy.

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4 years

What we’ve won are ears that say they will listen. Now we must shout loud and clear what they need to hear #Election2020 #BidenHarris2020 #NewChapter

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4 years

The results of an election will not change the conviction with which I pursue my mission. The results of an election will not determine the quality of the work I am producing. The results of an election will not derail me from the path I am pursuing #WeGonBeAlright #WorkDontStop

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Christopher Emdin

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4 years

For the teacher in this season, peace is the goal. Not quiet, silent, passive or complicit peace but the peace that comes with alignment - mission, vision & practice aligned. You got to be at peace to go to war. #HipHopEd

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4 years

Ayyy fam, you ain’t got to be the expert on everything. You ain’t got to have an opinion just because it is trending. Sometimes just sit one out and learn something. Your gift will make space when it’s your time.

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4 years

#HipHopEd -ucators Begin your lesson today asking youth what they have seen, experienced, watched, read about the events yesterday. Center their truth and create space for dialogue. Teach in the key of life

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3 years

One of the most pervasive issues in contemporary education is the unwillingness of adults to give children the space to make mistakes #HipHopEd

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4 years

The outcome of an election will not determine the conviction with which I pursue my mission #HipHopEd #Vote2020

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4 years

In the midst of unprecedented chaos and a disruption to our sense of normal, we have to remember that learning has never required a school building #HipHopEd

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5 years

It is okay to say i'm not sure. It is okay to say I need more information. It is okay to say I haven't formed my thoughts on that yet. Doesn't make you less "woke"

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4 years

‘There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it.’ #AmandaGorman

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4 years

In the midst of the dissension about online learning, some children are having the best learning experiences they have ever had. For some, the school building was a site of trauma. Not having to return to the place that implanted a lack of value for self is a small victory.

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4 years

Students learn more from what you model for them than what you tell them. We must model emotional awareness and wellness. Feel out loud and navigate the feelings in front of them #HipHopEd

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4 years

A fundamental piece of making #GoodTrouble in education is challenging what is perceived as good and what is perceived as trouble. Quiet≠good, Obedient≠good, Loud≠trouble asking questions≠trouble #HipHopEd #GoodTroubleEdu

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5 years

Thee is no profession where you can change the world in a more direct way than teaching. It is the most noble of all professions #TeacherAppreciationWeek #HipHopEd

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6 years

You cannot teach someone you do not believe in #HipHopEd

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4 years

As you place all those zoom meetings on your calendar, schedule time for the most important meeting... the one with yourself. Prioritize you #HipHopEd

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5 years

Educators please take your sick days. Better to miss a day and come back whole than always be present and not have a presence #Rethink_learning

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5 years

Dear White Folks, Saying you don’t identify as/see color avows the privilege you are afforded in your skin & denies my experiences in mine

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6 years

You cannot claim to care about students if you do not care about teachers and their well being #HipHopEd

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6 years

Schools cannot improve parental/community engagement if their first interaction w/ parents is to complain about children #HipHopEd

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4 years

Many may not want to admit it but #AmandaGorman served us presidential hip-hop. She gave the wordplay, the cadence, the rhyme schemes, the hand gestures. You can extract the hip-hop from it to make yourself comfortable but that was the culture on full display #HipHopEd

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5 years

The most powerful credential the teacher can hold is a deep connection to the community where the students are from #HipHopEd

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2 years

If you see beauty & magic in someone, tell them. They may not see it yet and your words may be what unlocks their vision of themselves. Just walk around unlocking magic. I have decided that’s how I want to live. Inside or outside of the classroom. Unlocking magic #Ratchetdemic

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3 years

If they are banning it, you should be understanding it. If they’re burning it, you should be learning it #HipHopEd

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4 years

#AmandaGorman reminds me that schools that do not create space for youth to speak and write about how they see the world are robbing them of a true education. #HipHopEd

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4 years

Shoutout to @joeyBADASS for your donations to NYC students in temporary housing. Remembering how CJ Fly showed up for the #ScienceGenius youth. Sending love to the whole #ProEra - #NuffRespect #HipHopEd #RIPCapSteez

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3 years

I finally got back in a physical classroom today to teach a lesson on STEM, sneakers and hip-hop to 6th graders in Harlem. My heart is so full. I feel like an athlete that just got back on the field after a year off #HipHopEd #TheWork

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7 years

Dear educators, You cannot engage parents if you are scared to go into their community #HipHopEd

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6 years

The best educators have done the work to know themselves. You are the best subject you can study #HipHopEd

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2 years

How about we arm teachers with books, curriculum, and the agency to teach honest truths about our past and make sense of the sad state of our present. This is the only way we can get to a future where idiots with political power aren’t actually considering giving teachers guns

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7 years

#CharlottesvilleCurriculum is essential as the school year begins. We cannot act like the real world isn't happening #HipHopEd

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4 years

Shoutout to all the parents struggling to put mechanical gifts together right now. Here’s a quick pro tip. Stop, breathe, put all the pieces back in the box, wrap the box and make it a team activity to put it together tomorrow.... or next year #CarryOn 😂🤣😂🤣

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5 years

The best educators are independent artists. They see teaching as an art & stand independent from scripted curriculum #HipHopEd

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5 years

Social Justice has become a buzz word in academia while communities remain ravaged by endless inequalities. Id rather folks don't use thew term than use it and have no meaning behind it #HipHopEd

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7 years

You can't freestyle good teaching. Everyone needs a lesson plan. You may not always use it, but everyone needs a lesson plan #HipHopEd

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4 years

Ayyy. Somebody always going to be mad. Secure yourself - you’re the bag. Say what comes from deep in your soul. Stay centered on your calling and never fold. Do not be swayed by fads and trends. Your twitter followers ain’t your real friends #HipHopEd #TenToesDown #AWord4Someone

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4 years

At some point, were going to have to start asking people what they are doing beyond a hashtag and "woke" talk #HipHopEd

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4 years

You begin to make #GoodTrouble in the classroom when you are so in tune with the students that you are troubled by the inequity and injustice that you are conditioned to accept as normal #HipHopEd #GoodTroubleEdu

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4 years

Folks that are outside of the culture like to make distinctions between hip-hop & poetry. Let's be clear hip-hop is poetry. Artists are poets. The beats are just the coauthors #HipHopEd

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4 years

What hip-hop songs are on your protest playlist? We want to curate a Spotify playlist for the community #HipHopEd

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3 years

Do not wait for someone to exhibit symptoms of brokenness before extending love to them. It is the reservoir of love we receive when we are whole that sustains us when we are broken #HipHopEd

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5 years

The best teachers & leaders have a community of like minded folks who challenge and support them. Find your tribe early #ElonEd

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7 years

Any event that threatens the safety of students requires a classroom that functions to restore it #HipHopEd #CharlottesvilleCurriculum

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7 years

You cannot teach someone you do not believe in #HipHopEd

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4 years

Sis hit him with the hmmmmm Kay. That’s when you know somebody bout to teach #VPDebate

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6 years

Classroom management is often a code phrase for policing cultural expressions that make those with power uncomfortable #HipHopEd

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4 years

What an incredible model for living a life of purpose, persistence, courage and conviction. May the next generation take up the mantle you shouldered & make good trouble till your vision of justice is fulfilled #JohnLewis #RestInPower

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6 years

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of the greatest albums of all time. It merged hip-hop, soul, R&B effortlessly & is still relevant today #HipHopEd

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6 years

True learning cannot exist outside of the culture of the learner. If you do not value the culture, you cannot teach the children #HipHopEd

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4 years

I am heading into the new school year prayered up, reading voraciously & focused on freedom and positivity #HipHopEd

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4 years

So.... it is possible to not shoot first, allow folks to go home safely and prepare their affairs and then arrest them later #HipHopEd

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3 years

Teaching is as much about seeing students as they are as it is about seeing them as what they can be #RadicalFaith #ToSirwithLove #HipHopEd

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4 years

Struggling with the sweet nostalgia of the hip-hop I grew up on and the bitterness I am sitting with as I cringe through the misogyny and homophobia that was/is so normalized. To love hip-hop is to critique hip-hop & challenge it to be better. We got work to do #Verzuz #HipHopEd

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When folks talk about art in education, they forget that art is cultural. If you want to celebrate the arts, then recognize my culture and the art within it. See the art within me. Otherwise its just the same old soulless teaching with a paintbrush. #HipHopEd

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7 years

@piersmorgan Advice for your column. Edit, select all, delete.

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6 years

Schools cannot improve parental/community engagement if they are afraid to go into the community #HipHopEd

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4 years

There is no teaching without love. Love for your students, love for your subject, love for your profession and most importantly, self love #HipHopEd

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