Electrifying the Classroom
Summer Teacher Institute at the Rock Hall in 2009:
Electrifying the Classroom
Please click here for the 2009 Summer Teacher Institute Schedule.
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>Read the press release (June 9, 2009)
The challenges of making material relevant to students while still meeting and exceeding academic content standards are many. Regardless of your specialty, popular music can help you electrify your classroom whether it’s to teach acoustics or the elements of narrative. Popular music provides energetic, artistic resources that you can use to bring your subject areas to life in new and exciting ways.
Spend a week in residence at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum! Electrifying the Classroom is the Summer Teacher Institute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The institute brings K-12 teachers together with arts education specialists, historians, community educators, curriculum designers, and performers to learn how to use popular music effectively to teach across the K-12 curriculum. Discover how to integrate an art form that speaks to students, sparking new levels of learning that meet state and national standards. Walk through activities that deepen your students’ engagement with popular music--whether the focus is language arts, history and the social studies, music, technology or other subject areas. Leave with knowledge of popular music history and classroom tested resources to bring your classroom alive with a cultural form drawn from many communities that resonates across generations and around the world.
The Summer Teacher Institute immerses participants in a week of multimedia presentations, hands-on workshops, and lectures featuring methods of experienced educators. The award-winning education staff of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum features resources, activities, and methods developed in the museum’s K-12 programs. Classroom teachers, arts educators, historians, and community educators converge to share their best practices.
2009 Summer Teacher Institute
June 22 - 26, 2009 – Cleveland, Ohio
GO BEHIND THE SCENES and connect the artistry, people, messages, and business of popular music to learning across the k-12 disciplines.
• Keynote Speaker
• Explorations of museum exhibits and behind-the-scenes highlights with Rock Hall curators
• Spotlights on the development of educational materials at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Introductions to the museum’s on-site programs, e-resources, and distance learning classes for K-12 students
• Participant booklet includes all materials required for the week, sample lessons and activities, museum learning guides, and the Museum educators’ recommended readings, websites, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee recordings.
LEARN FROM AWARD-WINNING EDUCATORS, AUTHORS, HISTORIANS, AND ARTISTS 
• Featured Artist
• Overviews of the dynamic history of rock and roll by decades, from the roots to its many branches
• Breakout sessions where K-12 educators with long-term experience demonstrate successful lessons and guide participants in tailoring resources for activities in their own classrooms
• Case studies describing goals, methods, and outcomes of successful programs for students in both traditional and non-traditional instructional settings
• Evening events such as the opening reception, Wednesday evening program, or other opportunities to extend conversation about popular music and network with colleagues.
More information on the schedule will be posted soon.
Review schedules of past programs below, and learn about our teaching staff and past presenters.
2008 Schedule
2007 Schedule
2006 Schedule
2005 Schedule
Cost: $250 for five days (Monday through Friday). Cost includes intensive classes, projects, breakout sessions, presentations, and of course, museum tours. Cost also includes daily continental breakfast. Participants must cover their own lodging, transportation, and other meals. Optional graduate credit available for an additional fee.
For More Information
Send your contact information to the Education Department at or call 216.515.1225 in order to be added to the STI 2009 mailing list. More details will be posted soon.
The 2008, 2007 and 2006 programs were made possible, in part, by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Institute In-Depth
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Doc Pomus' Little Saxophone
Photo by Design Photography
Collection of the Family of Doc Pomus
