{"id":2668,"date":"2012-04-07T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:32:05","slug":"saturday-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Saturday School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2669\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" title=\"Erik Cork, &lt;a href=\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-cork-bbc2.jpg\" alt=\"Erick Cork: Born to Inspire\" width=\"418\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-cork-bbc2.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-cork-bbc2-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erick Cork: Born to InspireThose who <em>can<\/em> do; those who <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> teach. Those who <em>can&#8217;t teach<\/em> administrate; and those who administrate should hire\u00a0Erik Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Cork, who\u00a0plays the role of a\u00a0walking\u00a0Hip-Hop thesaurus, dj, preacher, high-0ctane story-teller and teacher,\u00a0brought\u00a0his Rap, Rhythm and Rhyme Workshop\u00a0at Bethany Baptist Church today.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of\u00a0students from several Central New York\u00a0 school districts and their parents\u00a0attended.\u00a0 The day was an\u00a0educational experience today that was exciting, refreshing and pure edu-tain-ment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2670\" style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2670\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2670\" title=\"Rap Rhythm and Rhyme: A Erik Cork Production\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc1.jpg\" alt=\"Rap, Rhythm &amp; Rhyme: Children learn in different ways\" width=\"371\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc1.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc1-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rap, Rhythm &amp; Rhyme: Children learn in different ways<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Cork&#8217;s philosophy illustrates that children be excited about learning. All it takes is a fresh approach, flexibility in\u00a0formula and\u00a0higher expectations (by parents and educators).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2671\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2671\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2671\" title=\"Rap, Rhythm &amp; Rhyme: No child left in the background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc2.jpg\" alt=\"Rap, Rhythm &amp; Rhyme: No child left in the background\" width=\"436\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc2.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2012-children-bethanybc2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rap, Rhythm &amp; Rhyme: No child left in the background<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Cork: Born to InspireThose who can do; those who can&#8217;t teach. Those who can&#8217;t teach administrate; and those who administrate should hire\u00a0Erik Cork. Cork, who\u00a0plays the role of a\u00a0walking\u00a0Hip-Hop thesaurus, dj, preacher, high-0ctane story-teller and teacher,\u00a0brought\u00a0his Rap, Rhythm and Rhyme Workshop\u00a0at Bethany Baptist Church today. Hundreds of\u00a0students from several Central New York\u00a0 school districts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[1786,818,26,1940,145,1941,566,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/23733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}