How to create a positive classroom culture
Explore the importance of classroom culture. Learn how to create a positive classroom culture though culture building activities and more.
How music supports teaching social and emotional learning skills
Learn how the power of music can support teaching social emotional skills. Explore social emotional learning (SEL) music activities.
10 Tips to help students reduce stress in the classroom
Learn how to reduce student stress in the classroom. These social and emotional learning tips and lessons can help reduce stress in students.
How to build student connections using music to teach in the classroom
Hip-hop, a cultural movement started by Black and Latinx youth in New York in the early ’70s, is a great launching point for using music to teach. When used as a part of instruction, hip-hop can help to engage students, bring curriculum to life, and reinforce core knowledge and skills, including vocabulary support and reading comprehension. How can music be used in education? Hip-hop pedagogy, essentially applying hip-hop elements to teaching methods, gives students a chance to share their knowledge with other classmates and analyze experiences of their own as well as others’ in a meaningful way. It can act…