Students read and reflect on Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem, Protest with special attention to how its rhythm can be embodied and the interplay with the poem’s rhythm and content. Students are also called to perform different spoken word poems, exploring rhythm.

To think through one’s culture, power, positionality and possibility.  In the series of learning sessions, students will explore their surface, shallow and deep culture that makes up who they are and how they engage in the world.  They will link this understanding to their own positionality and begin to see where power resides. They will be asked to think futuristically about what their possibilities are and how their positionality can be used for change.  This learning sessi

These lessons are built on a dissection of pre-assigned readings, Hamilton-inspired free writes, and open discussions intended to make conne

This lesson explores the creation and re-creation of Master Narratives. Students will conduct artistic research on core “American...

Learners investigate shadow narratives as dominant and shadow narratives as collectively oppressed stories. Learners workshop through...

“The Letters" is an invitation to witness and speak aloud the story of “The Hyphen.” It’s a moment--in lesson form--to affirm every voice...

Listening skills unearth students’ perceptions of self and belonging to tell a new story about themselves in a voice that lives naturally...

Whoever’s holding the frame gets to tell the story, shape the vision, because Europeans have told the story that’s the story we (get). -...

In this lesson students will explore the notion of self as a social gesture for society. They will analyze societal issues through the...

The following lessons focus on memory and self reflection and builds to learning and understanding a framework for collective and...