Educational Success with Hip-Hop
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Merv Jenkins from Renaissance Learning joins us to share his transformative journey with Flocabulary, an innovative platform that uses hip-hop to revolutionize education. Discover how Merv's partnership with Grammy-winning producer 9th Wonder in the early 2000s led to the creation of engaging educational content that makes vocabulary acquisition exciting and effective. Merv, drawing from his experiences as a high school assistant principal, discusses the importance of bridging the gap between "word rich" and "word poor" students, highlighting how Flocabulary is changing classroom dynamics and improving student outcomes.
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