Many educators already know that hip hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip hop save our schools?

Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking evening of performance, storytelling and conversation about the role of hip hop in learning and in transforming education as we know it. Educators and students from the High School of Recording Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota will share how one innovative school has embraced hip hop as a pedagogy for empowering, inspiring and informing. They will be joined by Sam Seidel, author of Hip Hop Genius, who chronicled the evolution of HSRA from its founding by the professional rapper David "TC" Ellis to the present day. Together, the presenters demonstrate how a hip-hop education can go far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content. Instead, they lay out a vision for how hip-hop’s genius—the resourceful creativity and swagger that took it from a local phenomenon to a global force—can lead to a fundamental remix of the way we think of teaching, school design, and leadership.