The Rise Up! curriculum offers a fresh approach to teaching American history and civics. It uses arts integration, specifically inspired by Hamilton: An American Musical, to engage students in creative inquiry. This method helps students connect with history on a personal level while developing their narrative and performance skills. If you want to bring civics education to life, this curriculum provides practical tools and strategies to do just that. What Are Rise Up Educato

Civics education shapes how we understand our roles in society. But traditional methods often fail to engage students deeply. That’s where the arts integrated civics approach comes in. It combines creative arts with civics lessons to make learning more dynamic and meaningful. This method encourages students to explore history, government, and community issues through artistic expression. It helps them connect emotionally and intellectually with the material. I want to share w

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). -...