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Have fun Fridays! where we play a mixtape created by students. Have each student pick a song and create a playlist that we can listen to during independent work or at the end or beginning of the class. This strategy helps students to get to know each other and connect.

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Creates an opportunity to connect to students at their level and create some sort of hook to keep them engaged and help them spit some academical knowledge themselves. In turn you are also learning about the student's view of their world-you connect with them.

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Be cognizant of new lingo that they have learned from various artists. Are there any synonyms with said lingo? If so, incorporate it in a way that will motivate them in their learning environment. Building connections through relatable content are powerful because realties and experiences are magical when engaging students in their respected curriculum.

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If students write in their journals during 6th -8th grade, They will be able to see their own progress and pick up on red flags.

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If students write in their journals during 6th -8th grade, They will be able to see their own progress and pick up on red flags.

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Students should have options to journal every morning when coming into school to help start their day.

What protocols are going to be placed in school to allow journaling to be a norm throughout the school?

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Survey students about favorite songs that make them happy and get them moving and make a mixtape for them to listen to as they do independent practice

Play these songs during 60 sec movement/dance breaks

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-Fostering connections
-Energy booster
-Reflecting on positive memories
-Mood changer
-Positive effect on health (decreases anxiety, lessons pressure)
-Emotionally regulates/motivates
(Ice breaker; choose a song based on a lesson theme)

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The possibilities that exist when incorporating group cyphers into your practice is a great opportunity to get to know the students, build trust, and give the students the opportunity to feel safe when talking about their emotions without being judged.

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Connection to ELA lessons: Have students create a mixtape around certain Themes that they are exploring in text that they are reading

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Using graffiti to help students built up vocabulary.  Associate vocabulary to images that will resonate with them.
Using graffiti as a form to express their knowledge, their emotions.

Graffiti is a form of expression. A form of advocacy. "Crack is wack"   Deliver a message .

Taking away the negative cognate

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Writing, recording, and performing are used as modes of delivery for sharing their thoughts, feelings etc. It is a cognitive, emotional vehicle where they can speak, improvise, or journal anything they'd like to share. The challenge would be to incorporate the content and enbed this into the spoken word therapy activity.

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There are many possibilities that exist when incorporating this into our practice...students can be worried about who reads their journal.

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Spoken word therapy way to channel our emotions which in turn  brings you to a level of catharsis.