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Little Steven's Virtual Classroom Tour

I’m going on tour. Traveling the only way we can right now–on Zoom.

LADAMA: Song, Dance, Roots and Resilience

A Playlist for Johnny Pacheco

Oh, The Places You'll Go

TeachRock and Milwaukee Public Schools Announce District-Wide Collaboration

Flashback

Little Steven’s Virtual Classroom Tour

Teaching History And Government in 2021

PJ Vegas on what it means to be indigenous on Thanksgiving since 1621

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Music of America

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LADAMA: Song, Dance, Roots and Resilience

In collaboration with the TeachRock Content team, LADAMA has created lessons and Distance Learning Packs on traditional and popular song and dance from the Latin American nations of Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia for students in grades K-6.

A Playlist for Johnny Pacheco

Founded in 1964, Fania Records was the result of a fortuitous meeting between Dominican-born bandleader Johnny Pacheco and a Brooklyn-born divorce lawyer named Jerry Masucci. At the time, Pacheco desired greater control over his own recording career and Masucci, who previously worked for a PR firm in Cuba, had both business aspirations and an affinity for the music that he had heard while abroad.

Oh, The Places You'll Go

On March 2, Random House Children’s Books and Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that they would stop publishing six of the author’s works.

TeachRock and Milwaukee Public Schools Announce District-Wide Collaboration

Endeavor Aims to Reach All 159 Milwaukee Schools Over Several Years.

April 29, 2018

The Teacher Appreciation Tour, soon to be renamed the Teacher Solidarity Tour, launches at The State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ.

At this show, Little Steven pioneers a new concept--teachers get free tickets, and, rather than coming early for an opening band, they come early for an arts-integration professional development session featuring Steven and the TeachRock team. They of course were invited to then stay for the epic 2.5 hour Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul set as well.

2018

It was the first of nearly 60 concerts at which Stevie and the TeachRock team met face-to-face with nearly 10,000 educators.

The initiative garnered national press coverage, which Steven used to advocate for education reform and to draw attention to the burgeoning #RedForEd movement that demands better treatment and compensation for teachers nationwide.

You can take a peek behind the curtain through this Education Weekly segment filmed later in the tour.

Little Steven's Virtual Classroom Tour

Little Steven is on tour, appearing in classrooms nationwide, from home!

Teaching History And Government in 2021

Nevada teacher Kathy Durham shares the challenges, and joys, of exploring current issues in a turbulent time.

LADAMA - Oyé Mujer

Oyé Mujer, LADAMA’s 2020 release is an embarrassment of riches sung in Portuguese, Spanish and English by turns. The quartet is many bands at once, acoustic and electric, with grooves that showcase instrumentalists’ virtuosic skill on drums, guitar and bandola llanera laying the foundation for thoughtful lyrics sung by their lovely contrasting voices. Se quema, se quema, the lyrics of the refrain of “Tierra Tiembla” describe this project well. In English this Spanish phrase translates “it burns.”

PJ Vegas on what it means to be indigenous on Thanksgiving since 1621

We have decided to pass the mic and put the Spotlight on an Indigenous friend of TeachRock, to learn more about how he considers this celebrated but also deeply problematic holiday.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Music of America

It’s an established fact that the majority of popular music in the United States today can be traced back to the Transatlantic slave trade centuries ago.