Self- & Community-Engaged Learning
Hip Hop History & Culture Class
This class is a hip hop history & culture class and a tool for community-engaged learning. Hip hop has always been used as a vehicle through which community and societal change takes place.
Be it the 1970s or now, hip hop has instilled within youth a consciousness of the conditions in their communities, a desire to maintain the release that self-expression brings, and a longing to pass this release on to those who share their neighborhoods and their circumstances. Above all, hip hop has inspired in youth a confidence in their ability to make change in themselves and in others.
This class equips students with the history and culture of hip hop, in order for them to develop projects to impact their communities and make change. Through these projects, students will transform their communities and deepen their relationships within them.
I Know I Can
I Know I Can (IKIC) is a social emotional & relational wellness class and a tool for self-engaged learning that helps students to understand their health mentally, emotionally, and physically and navigate their interpersonal, academic, and professional relationships.
As awareness of the effects of trauma on children grows in our institutions, the value of social emotional supports is realized on a greater scale and the supports themselves become more commonplace. It was even introduced to the Colorado legislative floor recently with the 2020 SB20-001 bill, which pushed the creation of a program for educators to teach and be taught about behavioral health issues, in order to improve school climate and students’ health.
Students will engage in projects of reflection and expression in order to learn more about themselves and their needs.