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The Go-Go Beat in Washington D.C.: Developing Classroom Lessons
On July 9, 2011, the D.C. community convened for a beat, the Go-Go beat. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum hosted Evolution of the Go-Go Beat in Washington, D.C., the second program in a...
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Teach the Beat Seminar a Big Success
“I’m going to start using go-go to teach across the curriculum, connecting DC history, math, and music. This was the best professional development ever,” said one of the participants in the...
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Teach the Beat: Go-Go Goes to School
Teaching for Change, in partnership with DCPS, is pleased to announce that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) has provided funding for the “Teach the Beat: Go-Go Goes to School:...
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Go-Go Performers Coach Next Generation in D.C. Classrooms
What an experience to see renowned go-go musicians coaching and mentoring students in D.C. classrooms. Students perform with expert guidance, ask questions, and wear out the performers with requests...
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Bring Go-Go into D.C. Area Classrooms
This fall, Teaching for Change is bringing renowned go-go performers to D.C. classrooms to coach and mentor K-12 students as part of our Teach the Beat project. Students have the unique opportunity...
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Thank You to Our Teach the Beat Donors
Through the generous support of individual donors, Teaching for Change will continue to bring go-go into D.C. area classrooms. From June through September, Teaching for Change brought go-go performers...
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Students Overjoyed to Learn About Go-Go
On September 17, John Buchanan visited two of Kerry Sylvia’s D.C. history classes at School Without Walls (DCPS). In advance of the lesson, students participated in an introductory activity called...
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Anacostia Museum Teach the Beat Workshop
On Friday, February 12, twenty teachers took part in a workshop on go-go at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and toured the new exhibit Twelve Years that Shook and Shaped Washington, 1963-1975 on...
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Smithsonian Visitors Learn about Go-Go and Teach the Beat
Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. On June 18, 2016, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation sponsored a program called “Hip...
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Go-Go Sound of Summer Series
Swamp Guinee (Congos), JuJu House (Drums), Scooter (Keys), Sugar Bear (Bass). Behind the scenes selfie with the Teach the Beat team (Jonas, Matt, and Keesha) and Sweet Cherie. On a Friday in June 2021,...
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