Our latest song has been getting a lot of attention.

Chase March was even featured in his local newspaper.

Here is the article as it appeared in the print edition.

Hip Hop teachers turn online meme into teachable moment

by Paul Morden

A Sarnia teacher and DJ is part of a group of educators

A Sarnia teacher and DJ is part of a group of educators who have turned the six-seven online meme and catchphrase into a teachable
moment.

Sarnia’s Chase March is part of Hip Hop Headucatorz, a group of Ontario and Halifax teachers using hip hop and other music in the classroom.
The group released an album, Head of the Class, a few years ago and recently released 6ix7, a song and music video based on six-seven, a nonsensical saying connected to a rap song and basketball that’s making the rounds of their classrooms.

“You can’t get away from it,” March said. “If you go to Question 6 in a book, the kids will say ‘six-seven.’ It’s, like, everywhere.”
March said he asked pupils what the saying means, “and none of them can explain… (but) they love saying it.”

He got the idea of relating six-seven to the year 1967 and spent $1 at a charity shop buying a used record released that year and sampled it to create a beat for a song about things that happened in 1967, including Canada’s centennial, Expo 67 in Montreal and release of the Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Michael (MikeAll) Grandsoult, a Scarborough rapper who formed Hip Hop Headucatorz, pointed out Caribana Toronto began that
same year.

“We had all these really cool things and historical references in the song,” March said.

Puppets representing group members appear in the music video posted to YouTube.

“My students keep asking to watch it,” said March, who works at Sylvan Learning Centre and is also a DJ.

The group also created work- sheets posted on its Bandcamp page teachers can use with the song in class.
research,” March said.

For more about the group’s resources, visit hiphopheaducatorz. com.

Using music and youth culture is an effective way of getting kids to learn, he said. “You can do a lot of things with music.”

The group’s debut album also comes with lesson plans and worksheets, as does The Math Album, which includes songs teaching the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Stream or download 6ix7 wherever you get your music. Free teaching resources available here – https://hiphopheaducatorz.bandcamp.com/album/6ix7