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Franklin declaration to be about anything that's what this reminded me

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of like I could write poetry about anything right so I

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can write a rap song about anything to and it resonates

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you know kids love music appointment think that it's like to

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childish or something to teach through music or or in a

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humorous way or do we wait a story and we reject

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that idea

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why listen to a lecture when you can instead listen to

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a rap flocabulary a program that breaks down core topics in

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subjects like math science and history and translate some into hip-hop

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songs

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what began as a CD for SAT prep in 2004 predating

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Hamilton success has sent exploded into a multimedia resource of more

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than 1,000 lessons the catchy Rhymes are not being so mean

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classrooms at more than 25,000 schools in over 20 countries why

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do you guys think this is such an effective tool for

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learning it's effective because it Taps into methods of learning that

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are as old as time storytelling music humor these are things

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that in all kinds of civilization 4000 thousands of years we've

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used to teach people never got a lot of stuff they

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always thought we have certain kids that are really hesitant to

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participate in kids that we're raising their hands and begging to

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go first and to perform those wraps and be willing to

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put themselves out there performance in front of the whole class

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while there other adults in the class watching them it just

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goes to show just how into it they were and how

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how much they take just took to the activity between to

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raise all about like making the words right on the beach

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in a cool way that will stick with them so I

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try to make sure the hugs are fun and catchy and

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something that they're going to like think about later on in

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school the Brachiosaurus most skins were herbivores like the Triceratops and

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let's not forget the services last that love that but they

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give God the birds in the sky descendants of dinosaurs that's

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really my creative process like sitting in the beat in a

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way that doesn't make this sound like I'm a teacher. dinosaurs

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roam the Earth and the moon what does that add to

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the proper you guys in provide to the school so you

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know, you know we firmly believe that diversity makes companies better

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and makes companies more successful and that is especially important to

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flocabulary because of the diverse students and so as an organization

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weave weave made diversity kind of a core part of our

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goal setting and other thing I would just add to that

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is we're not blind to race and were two white guys

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who started a educational hip hop company and so for us

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not to care deeply about making sure that are people actually

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working aplikasi Larry creating this stuff are not just more white

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people that's really crucial to start running I'm curious what you would

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say to a parent who you know might have a

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mixed opinion when it comes to the traditional rap music and

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then it back to like their kids are not learning from

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rap music and Hip-Hop like what would you say to a

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parent who like might be a little skeptical about this for

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the students listening to it now in the parents of those

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students I'm pretty sure they would take this in as something

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revolutionary and a sense of you're not getting any rappers that

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are talking about drug-dealing it you're not getting any rappers or a

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talking about like anything that might B of A negative

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influence I feel like the record that you're getting from flocabulary

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a really positive records and really truthful and carrying it might

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change your outlook on wet hip hop to bring the regulars

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are coming in the Minutemen route to fight for vocabulary so

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when you get this I wrote a song and then cool

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I wrote the song that how do I record it how

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do I create a video how do I share it feeding

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that sort of an environment in a platform is sort of

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what we're dreaming of next and then the students themselves and

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how they interact content mattermost and so a big part of

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our plans moving forward is to kind of put the students

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in the center of their learning allowed in a few more

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creative on our platform allow them to share collaborate you know

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that's kind of 21st Century Learning and while we love our

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videos and and what they can do for the classroom I

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think the biggest impact will come when we turn the tables

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and let the students take control