To me, MC means Move The Class

At Growing Up Queens, June 2011, I invited middle and high school students from 5 schools throughout NYC, to read their poetry at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. The message projected on stage was written by students from The Renaissance Charter School. Click here to read more. 

WELCOME TO Move the class

So, I guess I am a nerd! I have been holding on to hundreds of lessons, activities, games, videos and resources from my ten years of teaching. Up until now, they have all been stored on my hard drive. What good are they doing there? None! So, I am putting them online so hopefully, other educators can benefit. 

• Check out my BLOG for dispatches from the field.
• Check out the CLASSROOM for lessons, community-building activities and other resources. 
• Click CONSULTING to check out my resume & portfolio. 

The CLASSROOM is filled with tools for teaching performance poetry. 

My goal is to infuse the world with hope and inspiration through poetry. Let's build. Us nerds have to stick together! 

kahlil's pedagogical CHECKLIST 

- Student/learner centered
- Liberatory and based in social justice
- Infuses creative expression through the arts
- Uses hip-hop as a pedagogical framework
- Respects different literacies
- Integrates media, technology and youth culture
- Rooted in love and transformation

- Follows Friere's theory which takes the student's background and learning goals into account
- Well-planned and structured
- Interactive, collaborative, imaginative, engaging, exciting and fun
- Understands its historical, political and social context

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“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.” 
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

occupy schools

Schools

BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Frontiers
Urban Assembly Institute for Young Girls for Math and Science
HS of Medical Professionals
Brooklyn Community Arts and Media
IS 292 (Groundwork Florentine Campus)
Brownsville Academy
Young Writers Academy 
El Puente
The Green School
College Now (Brooklyn College)

MANHATTAN
Henry Street International
HS for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College (HSMSE)
Bayard Rustin
Martin Luther King Jr. HS
High School for Service & Learning
Booker T. Washington Learning Center

QUEENS
The Renaissance Charter School
St. John's Parish Day School
PS 122 
PS 145 
PS 140
Queens Satellite Academy
Queens Gateway to Health and Sciences 
Math, Science, Research and Technology HS

BRONX
Hyde Leadership Charter School
PS 56
IS 313
IS 117 
Offsite Educational Services (GED Prep)
International Community HS

OTHER
Holderness Boarding School (Plymouth, New Hampshire)
Steve's Farm & Wilderness Camp
Friends Academy (Long Island)
Stamford Boys & Girls Club

organizations

Urban Arts Partnerships
Community Works NYC
Urban Word NYC
Community of Unity
Liberty Lead
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
EarSay
Queens Theater in the Parks
Freedom Academic Movement
Queens Writes

community partners

City of NY Parks & Recreations
Queens Council on the Arts
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
MGI (Hunter College)
Summerbridge

TEACHER TRAININGS

Bank Street College
NYU
New York Collective of Radical Educators