Verbal Remedies - Youth Program
In my years of experience as an educator, I have been known to wear many hats.
I have taught a wide range of classes that helped me to develop my variety of
workshops.
Workshops include but are not limited to:
Turning Your Passions into Profits (Entrepreneurship)
Aptitudes and Abilities (Finding Your Passions)
The Real, Real World (Future Financial Planning)
F.L.O.W. (Poetry and Writing)
Break it Down (Literary Criticism)
Getting Out (Journal Writing)
Best Foot Forward (Professional Business Letter Writing and Interviewing)
Like it I.S. (Young Women’s Esteem Project)
As an instructor for the American Social History Project, I have developed
curriculum and assessment for a class that takes an interdisciplinary approach to
studying events in America. ASHP is a year-long class that combines English and
Social Studies to promote research and writing on specified topics. These
classes can also be taught as a workshop.
ASHP courses were:
The Black Arts Movement a social and political view of urban art of the
60’s and 70’s
American Lies a critical look at stories in American media and
the local or global realities behind them
The Maafa Experience an in-depth look at the experience and effects
of chattel slavery in America
Revolutionary Philosophy a look at modern, urban theological
and philosophical writers and speakers in America
I have also worked in an interdisciplinary environment that integrated Music, Art,
History and English to create Musical Theater Performances. Students in this
theater project, research a socially relevant topic and write, produce and perform
a play on the subject as the culminating experience of their eight week workshop
series.
Theater Productions have been:
The Wiz Remix – An Urban Fable
A South Side Story – A Harold Washington Tale
Open Book – The Value of Education
Verbal Remedies - Future Projects
Many of my classes have been project based. This has lead to my host school
(Olive-Harvey Middle College) developing a publishing company, School House
Press, to facilitate the production and distribution of the current ASHP project’s
magazines American Lies, Local Realities and American Lies, Global Realities.
Also, my Contemporary Authors class has compiled an anthology of poetry and
short stories set to be released in 2007.
In conjunction with Mid West Coast Productions, Verbal Remedies is looking to
incorporate a multi-media element into our program which will include
documentary filmmaking and news reporting.
Verbal Remedies – Community Partnerships
Many artists and writers from the Chicago area have worked with students in the
Verbal Remedies Program. This collaboration has heightened the experience and
exposure of both the students and the program.
Past and Present Collaborators have been:
Scoop Jackson – Writer (ESPN, Vibe, Slam, etc.)
Triple Black – Performance poet, visual artist
Mama Brenda Matthews – Performance poet
Red Storm – Poet, author
Ben Ammi – Poet
Y Blak Moore – Author
Armen Rah – Performance poet
Coquie Hughes – Filmmaker
Camil Williams – Writer, visual artist
E. Nina Jay – Poet
Enigma Poets – Performance poets
M’reld – Performance poet
Deana Dean – Performance poet
Mutsia – Poet, media manager
Discopoet Khari B – Performance poet, radio personality
Naima Dawson – Poet, playwright, producer
Hands off Assata Project – Socio-political organization
Young Chicago Authors – Youth writer’s organization
Olive - Harvey College’s African – American Studies Department
TJ Crawford - National Hip-Hop Convention
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses - Multi-media artists and activists
With many more to come…
In my years of experience as an educator, I have been known to wear many hats.
I have taught a wide range of classes that helped me to develop my variety of
workshops.
Workshops include but are not limited to:
Turning Your Passions into Profits (Entrepreneurship)
Aptitudes and Abilities (Finding Your Passions)
The Real, Real World (Future Financial Planning)
F.L.O.W. (Poetry and Writing)
Break it Down (Literary Criticism)
Getting Out (Journal Writing)
Best Foot Forward (Professional Business Letter Writing and Interviewing)
Like it I.S. (Young Women’s Esteem Project)
As an instructor for the American Social History Project, I have developed
curriculum and assessment for a class that takes an interdisciplinary approach to
studying events in America. ASHP is a year-long class that combines English and
Social Studies to promote research and writing on specified topics. These
classes can also be taught as a workshop.
ASHP courses were:
The Black Arts Movement a social and political view of urban art of the
60’s and 70’s
American Lies a critical look at stories in American media and
the local or global realities behind them
The Maafa Experience an in-depth look at the experience and effects
of chattel slavery in America
Revolutionary Philosophy a look at modern, urban theological
and philosophical writers and speakers in America
I have also worked in an interdisciplinary environment that integrated Music, Art,
History and English to create Musical Theater Performances. Students in this
theater project, research a socially relevant topic and write, produce and perform
a play on the subject as the culminating experience of their eight week workshop
series.
Theater Productions have been:
The Wiz Remix – An Urban Fable
A South Side Story – A Harold Washington Tale
Open Book – The Value of Education
Verbal Remedies - Future Projects
Many of my classes have been project based. This has lead to my host school
(Olive-Harvey Middle College) developing a publishing company, School House
Press, to facilitate the production and distribution of the current ASHP project’s
magazines American Lies, Local Realities and American Lies, Global Realities.
Also, my Contemporary Authors class has compiled an anthology of poetry and
short stories set to be released in 2007.
In conjunction with Mid West Coast Productions, Verbal Remedies is looking to
incorporate a multi-media element into our program which will include
documentary filmmaking and news reporting.
Verbal Remedies – Community Partnerships
Many artists and writers from the Chicago area have worked with students in the
Verbal Remedies Program. This collaboration has heightened the experience and
exposure of both the students and the program.
Past and Present Collaborators have been:
Scoop Jackson – Writer (ESPN, Vibe, Slam, etc.)
Triple Black – Performance poet, visual artist
Mama Brenda Matthews – Performance poet
Red Storm – Poet, author
Ben Ammi – Poet
Y Blak Moore – Author
Armen Rah – Performance poet
Coquie Hughes – Filmmaker
Camil Williams – Writer, visual artist
E. Nina Jay – Poet
Enigma Poets – Performance poets
M’reld – Performance poet
Deana Dean – Performance poet
Mutsia – Poet, media manager
Discopoet Khari B – Performance poet, radio personality
Naima Dawson – Poet, playwright, producer
Hands off Assata Project – Socio-political organization
Young Chicago Authors – Youth writer’s organization
Olive - Harvey College’s African – American Studies Department
TJ Crawford - National Hip-Hop Convention
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses - Multi-media artists and activists
With many more to come…
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