Workshop Facilitators Use Hip-Hop Music and Media Literacy to Make Reading Real for Youth at Oak Hill Juvenile Detention Center
Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 21, 2007 -- Youth at Oak Hill Juvenile Detention Center in Washington D.C. are receiving an innovative alternative education experience. Independent Hip-hop musician and professional educator, Gabriel Benn (aka Asheru), along with a team of other talented artists recently began conducting a series of enrichment classes at the facility. These classes, called HELP, use materials and an approach also co-created by Benn. A series of student workbooks (Hip-hop Educational Literacy Program) provide differentiated language arts instruction based on culturally relevant and engaging Hip-hop songs and artists. Popular songs by musicians such as Ludacris, Kanye West, Nas, 50 Cent, Common, and, most recently, Lauryn Hill provide high-interest themes and content for reading and writing practice. In addition to reading intervention, HELP activities develop critical thinking skills and many other academic outcomes. At Oak Hill, the Guerrilla Arts guest instructors also integrate media including movies, video, Internet, books and songs into these effective student workshops. Guerrilla Arts instructors weave both reading literacy and media literacy into a dynamic and inspiring student experience.
Guerrilla Arts Ink (www.guerillaarts.ning.com) is a community organization dedicated to providing a link between the arts, education, and social service communities through creative and revolutionary means such as innovative educational programming, curriculum development, arts consulting, character education workshops, cultural arts/music education, entrepreneurial partnerships, and the development of educational multimedia productions. Through the support of its Artist Registry, Guerrilla Arts gives artists the opportunity to work hands on with students as part of an Artists-in-Residence program. Through its community partnerships, diligent artist outreach and belief in the concepts of "community teachers" and the "community as classroom", Guerrilla Arts has successfully provided arts programming and cooperative learning environments within the Washington, DC area for over 2 years.
Oak Hill is operated by nonprofit organization, See Forever (www.seeforever.org). The HELP workshops are just one example of how See Forever implements its mission to create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can reach their potential.
Hip-hop Educational Literacy Program was developed by Educational Lyrics, LLC (www.edlyrics.com), a Washington D.C. publisher dedicated to providing quality instructional materials that challenge illiteracy by engaging and motivating reluctant and struggling readers through relevant content. The next HELP Teacher Guide and Student Workbook release will be based on the award winning animated television series "The Boondocks". The HELP program is ideal for alternative education, after-school, school classroom, tutoring, and home environments and may be purchased at www.edlyrics.com.
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