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CJ Reynolds has been a classroom educator for 17 years, teaching high school Literature and The History of Hip-Hop in West Philadelphia. He is also the author of Teach Your Class Off and the creator of the Real Rap with Reynolds YouTube channel. CJ speaks at schools, universities, and conferences, and has sprinkled his educator magic on such brands as Google, McDonalds, Scholastic, College Board, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Verizon, and Samsung.
Reynolds' work is always aimed at giving the world an authentic glimpse into what it looks like to teach high school in the inner city while at the same time building pathways and pipelines to help new and veteran educators become the teachers they're called to be. His bare-bones teaching philosophy is simple: In the classroom relationships are king, and education is only ever about the students.
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"Your attention is more important than your advice."
Teach Your Class Off:
The Real Rap Guide to Teaching
It’s Only Ever about the Students
In today’s educational climate of budget shortages, rigid testing standards, and diminishing autonomy in the classroom, how can teachers bring creativity and passion back into their work? Teach Your Class Off offers educators struggling with these issues and feeling burnt out a way to hit the reset button and reconnect with what energizes them about teaching.
Keynotes, Workshops, & Sessions:
Teach Your Class Off
Keynote/ Workshop
Don’t wait to be the teacher you’ve always dreamed of becoming! In this session, we will cover some of the most difficult topics educators attempt to navigate and how they can take their classrooms from surviving to thriving. From creating student engagement to building strong student/teacher relationships, classroom management, and more. New and veteran teachers will learn practical skills that they can implement immediately to help them teach their class off.
OBJECTIVES :
- How to create and sustain student engagement
- How to build strong student to teacher and teacher to teacher relationships
- How to lead in the classroom instead of just manage
- How to create relevant and meaningful lessons that will make your students want to come to class.
- How to create inclusive, empowering, and positive school culture.
Sprinkle Magic on Your Classroom
Keynote/ Workshop
Seeing your students dig deep and make your classroom come alive is the most magical and gratifying thing you can do as a teacher. In this session, we discuss how to unlock your students' attention and create lessons and experiences that will make kids WANT to come to your class. From creating student engagement, to building strong student/teacher relationships, to taking every day classroom activities to the next level by sprinkling a little bit of magic on them. New and veteran teachers will learn practical skills that they can implement immediately to help them teach their class off.
OBJECTIVES
- How to easily take your lessons to the next level by increasing student engagement.
- How to build strong student relationships.
- How to create classrooms where all students are finding success.
- How to create inclusive classroom settings.
Leveling Up Learners
Keynote/ Workshop
In this session, we will cover some of the most difficult topics educators attempt to navigate and how they can take their classrooms from surviving to thriving. From creating student engagement to building strong student/teacher relationships, classroom management, and more. New and veteran teachers will learn practical skills that they can implement immediately in any class to help them teach their class off.
OBJECTIVES
- How to create and sustain student engagement
- How to build strong student to teacher and teacher to teacher relationships
- How to lead in the classroom instead of just manage
- How to create relevant and meaningful lessons that will make your students want to come to class.
