Posts Tagged ‘Syracuse City School District’

Saturday School

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

Erick Cork: Born to Inspire

Erick Cork: Born to InspireThose who can do; those who can’t teach. Those who can’t teach administrate; and those who administrate should hire Erik Cork.

Cork, who plays the role of a walking Hip-Hop thesaurus, dj, preacher, high-0ctane story-teller and teacher, brought his Rap, Rhythm and Rhyme Workshop at Bethany Baptist Church today.

Hundreds of students from several Central New York  school districts and their parents attended.  The day was an educational experience today that was exciting, refreshing and pure edu-tain-ment.

Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: Children learn in different ways

Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: Children learn in different ways

I saw parents stare in unanimous disbelief as they watched elementary age to high school-aged children enthusiastically participate in learning vocabulary words and study skills to the beat of contemporary music.

Cork’s philosophy illustrates that children be excited about learning. All it takes is a fresh approach, flexibility in formula and higher expectations (by parents and educators).

Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: No child left in the background

Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: No child left in the background

Chocolate Thoughts

Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Shane Evans and Taye Diggs discuss their collaboration to create Chocolate Me.

Shane Evans and Taye Diggs discuss their collaboration to create Chocolate Me.

Actor Taye Diggs along with fellow SU alum Shane Evans talked about their book Chocolate Me and did a reading at the Greater Evangelical COGIC last Sunday. The story,based on lessons Diggs mother gave him as a child, are a great anecdote to low race esteem and self image.

In addition to the reading, Evans and Diggs did a musical performance (Evans on guitar, Diggs on beatbox) with crowd participation.

The event was sponsored by Say Yes to Education (Syracuse).

Taye Diggs gets some help during a song peformance with Shane Evans at the Greater Evangelical COGIC

Taye Diggs gets some help during a song peformance with Shane Evans at the Greater Evangelical COGIC

Shane Evans answers questions about illusrating Chocolate Me

Shane Evans answers questions about illustrating Chocolate Me

SCSD children listen to performance by Diggs and Evans

SCSD children listen to performance by Diggs and Evans

Basketball (Love) Jones

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Love

Love

One of my daughter’s friends and one of my clients, Love Nicholson, is quickly becoming maybe the most talked about 10-year old basketball player in the city.

She plans to travel to Europe later this year for competition.

For her website  Love wrote her own bio, which details her unlikely pursuit of  basketball.  Hopefully she’ll start a blog or video blog to document her trip.