HIP HOP GENIUS: Remixing Education
Featuring students and educators from the first hip hop high school in the nation,the High School for Recording Arts (HSRA)
David "TC" Ellis - HSRA Founder
Tony Simmons - HSRA Program Director
Sam Seidel - Author of Hip Hop Genius
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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.
Monday February 6th, 2012
Join us for a reception at 4:30 pm
Performance & Discussion from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Reviews of Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
By Sam Seidel · Preface by Herbert Kohl · Foreword by George Clinton
“Hip Hop Genius is a weapon for the defense of the resilience, brilliance, and strengths of young people and for
schools designed to serve them. I wish we had had such a book as a weapon for our self-defense during the struggles
of the sixties. It provides evidence for the way in which diversity in schooling can overcome intractable problems of
public education and should be used in defense of democratic, wider-ranging schooling. The educational
establishment is cynically obsessed with one-way schooling, and this book is a call for resistance and opposition
through the power of the portrait it provides of what creative education looks like.” —Herbert Kohl, author, 36
Children, I Won't Learn from You, and The Discipline of Hope
“With back bends for the older and back flips for the agile young, Hip Hop Genius exercises sound scholarship and
creative, critical thinking as it confronts social disparities in America’s educational crisis. Sam Seidel’s years of
experience with city and charter schools allow him to chronicle and channel the contributions of teachers, students,
artists, and activists rooted in urban cultures—all working to define strategies for quality universal education.
Positioning hip hop against ideological conservatism, economic neglect, racism, sexism, and homophobia, Hip Hop
Genius executes the essential moves.” —Joy James, editor, The New Abolitionists
“Hip Hop Genius is a powerful and necessary work. Through his
beautifully written account of the High School for Recording Arts, Sam
Seidel offers real-world texture and nuance to the field of Hip-Hop
Based Education.” —Marc Lamont Hill, author, Beats, Rhymes, and
Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
“In this insightful and illuminating book, we learn that hip hop is much
more than a source of entertainment. It can and is being used as a
medium for creativity and genius to be cultivated.” —Pedro A. Noguera, Professor of Education and executive
director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University
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