Take a look at past Summer Teacher Institute schedules
Explore the different events, classes, panels, performances, and more that participants have engaged in over the years.
2012
Summer Teacher Institute 2012 included a screening of Thunder Soul, the moving documentary about the Kashmere Stage band and its director, Mr. Conrad "Prof" Johnson. Members of the band and Prof's son joined STI teachers to talk about their experiences. Participants also spent time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library & Archives where they discovered countless resources for their classrooms. Teachers from around the world convened and discussed pedagogical approaches and curricula design.
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2011
Summer Teacher Institute 2011 coincided with the groundbreaking Museum exhibit, Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power and the week was filled with events to highlight the exhibit. Girls Rock Camp Alliance directors were on hand to lead breakout sessions about women in popular music, building self-esteem among young people and lyric analysis while legendary producer and musician Genya Ravan (Goldie and the Gingerbreads; producer for Ronnie Spector and the Dead Boys) shared highlights of her career. Teachers from around the country and around the world (including from Australia) shared their pedagogical practices using popular music in their classrooms.
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2010
2010 STI hosted an evening with rocker Joe Grushecky and a Hall of Fame Series event featuring Bobby Massey [inducted 2005], founding member of the O'Jays. Grushecky discussed both his career as a singer-songwriter and his experiences as a high-school special education teacher, while Massey discussed his own career with the O'Jays and his work with local public schools. This year also spotlighted distance learning through videoconferencing.
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2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Darryl McDaniels (of Run-D.M.C.) shared with STI participants about some of his education initiatives in Queens, New York in a Hall of Fame series session.
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