Todays topic: How Our Schools and Communities Can Effectively Address Bullying and Cyber Bullying. Host Shango Blake founder/CEO of T.R.U SKOOL Educational Consultants (Teaching Reading Uniquely to reverse under- performance) talks to Kevin McGill Director of Housing Services YMCA Yonkers & Professor at The College of New Rochelle and Kevstervision.com/Off the Hook Productions about his experience and work with at-risk youth using media production. Shango Blake, known as “The Hip Hop Principal” has taken the powerful and magnetic force known as Hip Hop and channeled it into a tool that got young urban students excited about education while and restored their self-esteem and confidence. The project benefitted the students by creating a project-based model for teaching valuable skills and lessons that extended from the classroom into practical application. The result of this was not only a student-created music video that screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, students learned to use their passion to focus on education, self-respect, and self-determination. They were honored in Queens, New York City, and nationally for their hard work and accomplishment. The success of the project was unparalleled and combined with other unique teaching methods, projects, and programs, a formerly at-risk school experienced skyrocketing test scores, decreased violence, and students realized their own abilities. Through interactive dialogue with his audience and guests the mission is to educate ALL AT- RISK communities.
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