Teaser:
Radical Math

Link:
www.radicalmath.org

Body:
This website has tons of grade appropriate activities that deal with current events and social issues.
http://www.teachablemoment.org/
TeachableMoment.Org provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment. It is a project of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility (formerly Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area).
Topical activities are available for elementary school, middle school, and high school levels.

Link:
www.teachablemoment.org/

Teaser:
Radical Math

Link:
www.radicalmath.org

Body:
Available exclusively on-line now at www.lulu.com/hiphop_education
Get your copies today! (only 20.00$ per copy)
Nationally Acclaimed
Hip-Hop Association
Breaking New Ground!
Finally, a book that deftly (and def-ly) chronicles the history, development and practice of Hip-Hop-In-Education, and more importantly- Hip-Hop AS education. If education is not one of the first ten elements of Hip-Hop, then nobody in Hip-Hop is keepin' it real except teachers. Danny Hoch, Writer, Actor, Founder of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival
Teachers have no other choice but to learn how to use Hip Hop in the classroom. It's the language of the children. They have to respect the culture of Hip-Hop. Talib Kweli, Hip-Hop artist
---------------------------------
The Hip-hop Education Guidebook:
Volume OneNew York City, February 6, 2007— Due to overwhelming demand for effective Hip-Hop education resources for the twenty-first century school, the Hip-Hop Association, a national organization dedicated to facilitating, fostering, and preserving Hip-Hop culture, announces the release of the much-anticipated book, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One (Lulu.com; February 20, 2007; $20.00) . To celebrate the release, the Hip-Hop Association will host a book launch party at Red Bamboo in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday, February 25, 2007 from 6 pm to 9pm.
Michael Cirelli, author of Hip-Hop Poetry & the Classics , Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, says "The Hip-Hop Association represents a crucial movement in the evolution of hip-hop culture--one that values media and education. This guidebook is a testament to their dedication to providing high-quality, relevant and dynamic educational resources for the next generation of hip-hop leaders"
-more-
With public schools in the United States in a state of crises, there is a growing need for innovation in the classroom. The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One is a groundbreaking book conceived as part of the Hip-Hop Association's Education Initiative (H2Ed). This smartly arranged guidebook is sure to engage teachers and students alike!
Educators from all over the United States and Canada contributed creative, rigorous, user-friendly lessons that cover a range of subject areas including math, science, geography, civics and language arts and have been used successfully in both formal and informal academic settings. Scholars such as New York University Professor, David Kirkland, author of the forward for the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook explains, "you can learn just as much about language and literature from reading Tupac as you can from Shakespeare. The themes and conflicts present in Shakespeare are all present in hip hop."
The National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that Black and Latina/o students continue to lag behind their White counterparts in reading and math standardized test scores (Education Commission of the States, 2005). As this achievement gap persists, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook provides the context for gathering answers. The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook addresses the tenants of a critical Hip-Hop pedagogy, framing the issues of concern and strength within Hip-Hop culture by providing in-depth analysis from parents, teachers and scholars. And, most importantly, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook offers an array of innovative, interdisciplinary standards-referenced lessons written by teachers for teachers.
Meet the teachers/contributors and the creators of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook at the launch party on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at Red Bamboo in Brooklyn, NY from 6pm to 9pm.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND/OR ARTWORK PLEASE CONTACT:
Marcella Runell, Director of Education
Hip-Hop Association
[m] 413-687-4963
[e] marcella@hiphopassociation.org
[web] www.h2ed.net
-more-
ADVANCED PRAISE
"As thousands of educators throughout the nation, and the world try to infuse the elements of Hip-Hop Culture into the educational process , H2ED has emerged as the leader of the Hip-Hop in education movement. Hip-Hop Congress is proud to be a partner of H2ED."
--Rev. Dr. James G. White
Co-Chair Hip-Hop Congress National Advisory Board
The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: A Sourcebook of Inspiration and Practical Application
Published by the Hip Hop Association
Publication Date: February 20, 2007
Price: $20.00
ISBN: #
Available on lulu.com (after February 20th)

Link:
www.h2ed.net

Teaser:
Radical Math

Link:
www.radicalmath.org

Teaser:
Green Teacher (www.greenteacher.com)

Body:
Green Teacher is a non-profit organization which publishes resources to help educators, both inside and outside of schools, to promote global and environmental awareness among young people from elementary through high school. The organization’s primary activity is the publication of Green Teacher, a quarterly magazine full of teaching ideas from successful “green” educators.

Link:
greenteacher.com

Body:
NYCoRE has created a curriculum, "Military Myths: Combating Military Recruitment in the Classroom" as part of a widespread response to the increased efforts of military recruiters in New York City high schools. Military Myths is a 5 day classroom curriculum created by teachers for teachers. Drastic cuts in state and city education budgets are indicative of the war being waged against low-income youth, especially youth of color. Military recruiters see the lack of sound educational institutions in low-income communities as an opportunity to encourage young people to join the military after high school. We as teachers must proactively address military myths with our students and challenge them to seek alternatives to enlisting in the military.

Link:
nycore.org/curricula.html

Teaser:
No Human is Illegal!

Body:
How will educators encourage acts of critical thinking, civic responsibility, agency, and above all— student leadership in advocating for all human rights? How can educators engage their students in these critical issues in the classroom? How can we serve as the liaison between students and the mixed messages the media and politicians are sending about immigration policy? This guide is for educators to take on the important issues that teachers and students alike have been tackling in their immigrant rights activism from INSIDE the classroom. This resource can be best used online as a web resource.

Link:
www.nycore.org

Teaser:
In response to one educator's request, another educator sent out this compilation of videos/films about labor history.

Body:
>Matewan is very good. So is Salt of the Earth. A good documentary is
>Union Maids. You might recommend that this teacher check out Power in
>Our Hands, the labor history curriculum that Norm Diamond and I did --
>distributed by Rethinking Schools. Bill Bigelow
> - - - - - - - - - -
>First...You have to check out Harlan County, USA. I loved it. It is
>one of
>the best labor documentaries I've seen and it does a great job with the
>coal
>mines which has nice connections to today with the explosion that
>happened...a year or two ago...? Also, I recently watched one called
>American Dream which is about meat packers at Hormel. It is pretty
>good,
>but I'd probably use clips for this one. I would definately show all of
>
>Harlan County.
> - - - - - - - - - -
>Bread & Roses (2000)
>A feature film based on the Justice for Janitors campaign in LA among
>immigrant workers. Maya (Pilar Padilla) is appalled at the work
>conditions and unfair labor practices at her job as a janitor in a
>downtown LA office building. She teams up with Sam (academy award
>winner Adrian Brody), a labor organizer, in a stirring fight against
>her ruthless employer. A selection of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
>British director Ken Loach's first film made in the United States.
>
>Roger and Me
>Michael Moore's documentary about the decline of Flint, Michigan and the
>role of GM in the deindustrialization of a once-thriving industrial city
>
>The Killing Floor- Feature film about the 1919 Chicago race riots,
>focusing on the
>migration of blacks from the south, the ghettoization of blacks, the
>efforts of
>workers in the meatpacking industry to unionize, and the tensions that
>led to the riots.
>
>The Triangle Fire -This is a 30-minute segment of the 10-part PBS
>documentary series on
>the history of New York City. It focuses on the conditions in sweatshops
>
>and slums among immigrants in the early 1900s and the efforts of unions
>and social reformers to organize to address these problems.
>
>Global Assembly Line -Documentary about the global economy, showing how
>global corporations
>and US policy pit workers in the US and workers in third world countries
>against each other; includes footage of the development of urban slums
>and maquilladora factories in Mexico.
>
>One Day Longer -Documentary about the strike of the Culinary Workers
>union against the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. This is good to show
>along with the article in the New Yorker, "How the Maids Fought Back,"
>about the union
>organizing among the hotel workers in Las Vegas
>
>
> - - - - - - - - - -
>Norma Rae would be a great one for your class. (With Sally Field).
> - - - - - - - - - -
>I highly recommend The Killing Floor. 1917, great migration, Chicago
>slaughterhouses, immigrant workers, labor unions and race riots. Annie
> - - - - - - - - - -
>Blue Collar
>Clockwork (indispensible for school workers)
>With Babies and Banners, the Story of the Womens' Emergency Brigade
>(Great Flint strike vs Gm)
>
>Those would be my top three picks. Clockwork and Babies and Banners
>are under an hour.
>
>
>The River Ran Red
>The Wobblies
>Reds (long)
>Eyes on the Fries
>Fast Food Women
>Prison Labor, Prison Blues
>Norma Rae
> - - - - - - - - - -
>
>How about Academy Award winning documentaries by Barbara Kopple ?
>[see additional note way below at bottom of message]
>
>Harlan County
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County%2C_USA
>starts:
>Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film documenting the efforts of
>180
>coal miners on strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1974. It was
>directed by
>Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights. Harlan
>
>County, U.S.A. is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her
>
>later American Dream, the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin,
>Minnesota in 1985-1986.
>and
>American Dream
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_%28film%29
>American Dream is a documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple centered
>on
>union meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between
>1985
>and 1986. Hormel cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 after posting
>a
>net profit of $30 million. The local P-9 union opposed the cut, but the
>United Food and Commercial Workers Union did not support them. American
>Dream features footage of union meetings and press releases, Hormel
>press
>releases, news broadcasts, and in-depth interviews with people on both
>sides
>of the issue.
>
>The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1990.
>------------
>
>=====
>Also
>Silkwood
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood
>
>Silkwood is a 1983 film which tells the true story of Karen Silkwood,
>who
>died under suspicious circumstances while investigating wrongdoings at
>the
>Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. It stars Meryl Streep in
>the
>title role, as well as Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, David
>Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Susie Bond and Fred
>
>Ward.
>
>The movie was written by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron. It was directed by
>
>Mike Nichols and filmed in Howe, Texas.
>
>It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role
>(Meryl Streep), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cher), Best Director,
>
>Best Film Editing and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the
>Screen.
>
>Tagline: On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear
>facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She
>never
>got there.
>
>more background on Silkwood:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood
>Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 ? November 13, 1974) was an American
>labor
>union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near
>Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.
>
>Silkwood's work was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel
>rods,
>and she died under allegedly mysterious circumstances after
>investigating
>claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant.

Body:
Available exclusively on-line now at www.lulu.com/hiphop_education
Get your copies today! (only 20.00$ per copy)
Nationally Acclaimed
Hip-Hop Association
Breaking New Ground!
Finally, a book that deftly (and def-ly) chronicles the history, development and practice of Hip-Hop-In-Education, and more importantly- Hip-Hop AS education. If education is not one of the first ten elements of Hip-Hop, then nobody in Hip-Hop is keepin' it real except teachers. Danny Hoch, Writer, Actor, Founder of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival
Teachers have no other choice but to learn how to use Hip Hop in the classroom. It's the language of the children. They have to respect the culture of Hip-Hop. Talib Kweli, Hip-Hop artist
---------------------------------
The Hip-hop Education Guidebook:
Volume OneNew York City, February 6, 2007— Due to overwhelming demand for effective Hip-Hop education resources for the twenty-first century school, the Hip-Hop Association, a national organization dedicated to facilitating, fostering, and preserving Hip-Hop culture, announces the release of the much-anticipated book, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One (Lulu.com; February 20, 2007; $20.00) . To celebrate the release, the Hip-Hop Association will host a book launch party at Red Bamboo in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday, February 25, 2007 from 6 pm to 9pm.
Michael Cirelli, author of Hip-Hop Poetry & the Classics , Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, says "The Hip-Hop Association represents a crucial movement in the evolution of hip-hop culture--one that values media and education. This guidebook is a testament to their dedication to providing high-quality, relevant and dynamic educational resources for the next generation of hip-hop leaders"
-more-
With public schools in the United States in a state of crises, there is a growing need for innovation in the classroom. The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume One is a groundbreaking book conceived as part of the Hip-Hop Association's Education Initiative (H2Ed). This smartly arranged guidebook is sure to engage teachers and students alike!
Educators from all over the United States and Canada contributed creative, rigorous, user-friendly lessons that cover a range of subject areas including math, science, geography, civics and language arts and have been used successfully in both formal and informal academic settings. Scholars such as New York University Professor, David Kirkland, author of the forward for the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook explains, "you can learn just as much about language and literature from reading Tupac as you can from Shakespeare. The themes and conflicts present in Shakespeare are all present in hip hop."
The National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that Black and Latina/o students continue to lag behind their White counterparts in reading and math standardized test scores (Education Commission of the States, 2005). As this achievement gap persists, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook provides the context for gathering answers. The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook addresses the tenants of a critical Hip-Hop pedagogy, framing the issues of concern and strength within Hip-Hop culture by providing in-depth analysis from parents, teachers and scholars. And, most importantly, the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook offers an array of innovative, interdisciplinary standards-referenced lessons written by teachers for teachers.
Meet the teachers/contributors and the creators of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook at the launch party on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at Red Bamboo in Brooklyn, NY from 6pm to 9pm.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND/OR ARTWORK PLEASE CONTACT:
Marcella Runell, Director of Education
Hip-Hop Association
[m] 413-687-4963
[e] marcella@hiphopassociation.org
[web] www.h2ed.net
-more-
ADVANCED PRAISE
"As thousands of educators throughout the nation, and the world try to infuse the elements of Hip-Hop Culture into the educational process , H2ED has emerged as the leader of the Hip-Hop in education movement. Hip-Hop Congress is proud to be a partner of H2ED."
--Rev. Dr. James G. White
Co-Chair Hip-Hop Congress National Advisory Board
The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: A Sourcebook of Inspiration and Practical Application
Published by the Hip Hop Association
Publication Date: February 20, 2007
Price: $20.00
ISBN: #
Available on lulu.com (after February 20th)

Link:
www.h2ed.net

Body:
Available at a Reasonable Price
>
> 1. A printed and improved copy of 70 lesson-chapters designed to stimulate
> informed discussions in high school US History classes.
> 2. A comprehensive teachers¹ manual
> 3. A CD containing all 70 chapters
> 4. Permission to reproduce all of the above for classroom use.
>
> E-mail, call or write if you have any more questions:
>
> Tom Ladenburg
> 100 Brantwood Road
> Arlington, MA 02476
> 781-646-4577
> t.ladenburg@verizon.net
Additional reasons you may want to purchase this material:
a. Will help you share this material with colleagues
b. Has been highly praised by educators all over the country
c. Written by teacher with almost 50 years of experience
d. Used in hundreds of classroom
e. Will encourage author to continue this work

Teaser:
Radical Math

Link:
www.radicalmath.org

Teaser:
Visit the educator’s section of the An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) website.

Body:
An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom is designed for high school science classrooms such as Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Physics, but the materials can also be used in Civics classes, middle school science classes and offer Service Learning opportunities as well.

Link:
participate.net/educators/

Teaser:
A Free Curriculum Kit and the HBO DVD distributed to the first 30,000 requesters.

Body:
A Free Curriculum Kit and the HBO DVD distributed to the first 30,000 requesters - the curriculum is built around
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" - Spike Lee's documentary of the events of Katrina and its aftermath. The curriculum is interdisciplinary and addresses race and class in America.
Visit the web site www.teachingthelevees.org
You'll find a description and the hyperlink to the request form.

Link:
www.teachingthelevees.org