Aysha Upchurch
@ayshadances
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Adjunct Lecturer & HipHopEX Lab Director at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dance/Arts Integration Specialist. 💃🏿👩🏾🎓✊🏾Artist, Professor, Consultant
Boston, MA
Joined April 2012
Proud to have two powerhouse Hip Hop Genius & Hip Hop Ed superstars @ayshadances and @IkeEwell joining us tonight @PaisleyPark !!!! https://t.co/33iN7h3lSL
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“Teaching is the ultimate performance art! Young people are works of art! Constructed out of the imagination of the Divine! All manifested into this perfect human being! Everything that comes from this work of art, has value!” @chrisemdin #HipHopEd
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“I feel like I got a cheat code bc of how honest HipHop teaches us how to be!” @ayshadances “I saw the power of the Culture, on its own! For me, there’s not much the ivory tower could throw at me! Why would you exclude one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox?” #HipHopEd
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“Art is.” @ayshadances @TheRealHipHopEd #HipHopEd “Because of the genius of HipHop, I could walk into any classroom ever and everybody will be alright! Insight is intrinsic in the art! Why don’t you know how to iterate? It means you are at best a script reader!” ✨ #TheMostHonest
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“Art is honest. Anything else is a cog in the system that keeps us asleep.” @ayshadances @TheRealHipHopEd #HipHopEd “It’s the Street Scholarship of it all!” ✨
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Discover insights from Harvard and beyond about the most pressing issues in education. Listen to the Harvard EdCast with new episodes every Wednesday! Catch up on any episode, anytime: https://t.co/oDmX45wypE
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Smiling. Focused. Excited. 2023. Still me…cuz I really like me. I just may take up more space. Yay. •••• 📸: @shocphoto
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When @ayshadances shows up at @HSRA_MN you can’t stand still in the midst of all this love and hip hop! #HipHopEd 👊🏾
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Introducing Technical Foul — we a legit crew. We got bars and two steps. We like Hip Hop and hoops. Show us respect or get hit with a tech. 😁
When @tonyminnieapple @LASTNAMELIPSET @ayshadances and your boy get to hang out at the Timberwolves game #TechnicalFoul is the name of our click #ReignOfTheTech
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When @tonyminnieapple @LASTNAMELIPSET @ayshadances and your boy get to hang out at the Timberwolves game #TechnicalFoul is the name of our click #ReignOfTheTech
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