The start of a new year is a wonderful time to explore the past year’s most important news in your classroom. The New York Times Learning Network is encouraging students to write a rap about the year’s news. Students should include information and stories that garnered the most attention in 2015 and create short, 12- to 15-line raps. Winning entries will be published on The Learning Network blog.
Each month we publish blogs and several newsletters full of digital learning, funding, professional growth, social media, and STEM resources. Below are items from our blogs and newsletters that educators turned to the most in August.
Steven Van Zandt—the musician, actor, and music and theater producer—is the force behind an education project that uses the history of rock music as a way of teaching UShistory and culture. Students learn US history through a musical lens with the help of lessons created by historians and curriculum experts that are interdisciplinary and available online for free.
The GRAMMY Foundation’s Music Educator Award shines a spotlight on the excellent and impactful work being done by thousands of music teachers across the United States. To be eligible for the award, educators must teach music fulltime in public or private schools, kindergarten through college.