Teaching Through Rap

Teaching Through Rap

The Lisa Show

Vulnerability and Teaching through Rap

Episode: Vulnerability and Teaching through Rap

  • Mar 12, 2021 1:00 pm
  • 13:00 mins

There are a lot of great teachers out there—and everyone has their own approach to the classroom. Maybe they plan amazing field trips or know just the right way to explain that tricky math equation, or maybe... they rap! In 2016, Dwayne Reed posted a rap music video welcoming his fourth grade students to the classroom, receiving nearly 2 million views. The viral teacher has now recently come out with a book, called "Simon B. Rhymin’" Here to tell us more about how rap can bring a community—or classroom—together, is author and teacher Dwayne Reed.