Trading Card Games as a Learning Tool
Trading card games like Pokémon can offer more than entertainment. They can also help promote social emotional learning and concrete educational outcomes for students.
Share Your Feedback — and Bring Pop Culture to Your Classroom
Share Your Feedback — and Bring Pop Culture to Your Classroom Pop Culture Classroom 2760 W. 5th Ave. Denver, CO 80204 (303) 325-1236 Hours9am-5pm Monday-FridayQuick Links Comics 101 For Teachers For...
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year and Mosaic Award Nominees and Winners
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year and Mosaic Award Nominees and Winners Media Contact: Chris Burley, Pop Culture Classroommailto:cburley@popcultureclassroom.org or 202-427-1175 (Denver — June 28) — Today, the...
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Winners
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards WinnersEmbargoed for Release:Thursday, June 24, 2021, 9:30 MT Media Contact:Chris Burley, 202-427-1175or c.burley@popcultureclassroom.org (Denver, CO) — Pop Culture Classroom, a...
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Nominees
Pop Culture Classroom Announces 2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards NomineesEmbargoed For Release:Monday, June 21, 2021, 8:00 AM ET Media Contact:Chris Burley, 202-427-1175 or c.burley@popcultureclassroom.org (Denver, CO) — Pop Culture Classroom, a...
Local Students Create Comic for Colorado Pride
Local Students Create Comic for Colorado Pride Arvada High School Students Commemorate 52nd Anniversary of Stonewall Riots(Denver, CO) — Pop Culture Classroom, a Colorado-based pop culture-focused education and community group, today released of a new student-written...
International Women’s Day 2021: Empowering Women and Girls in Pop Culture
International Women’s Day is March 8, and March is also Women’s History Month. To celebrate, we’re highlighting the role of comics, video games, movies, and other pop culture in empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality. Watch Our 2021...
Aurora History That Pops, A New Interactive Programs for Local Students and Educators
Aurora History Museum & Historic Sites and Pop Culture Classroom Partner for History Learning, Enrichment, Engagement, and Fun in Aurora’s Schools. AURORA, Colo. — Aurora History Museum & Historic Sites and Pop Culture Classroom today launched “Aurora History...
International Women’s Day: Shout Out Awesome Women and Girls in Pop Culture
This International Women’s Day (3/8/2021), Pop Culture Classroom is highlighting the role of comics, video games, movies, and other pop culture in empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality — and you can help! At Pop Culture Classroom, we believe...
2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Nominations Open
2021 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Nominations OpenFor Immediate Release: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021Contact: Chris Burley, c.burley [at] popcultureclassroom.org Annual Awards Honors the Best in Fiction and Nonfiction Graphic Novels Publishers and creators can...
Black History Month 2021 Pop Culture Education Resources
6 Tips and Tricks for Being a Great Dungeon MasterEach February, we celebrate the essential contributions of the African diaspora to our shared American experience during Black History Month. Pop Culture Classroom has created free original comics and shareable...
6 Tips and Tricks for Being a Great Dungeon Master
6 Tips and Tricks for Being a Great Dungeon MasterBy: Faith Ojebuoboh, PCC instructor As someone who’s been playing tabletop games for about 7 years and running games for friends, students, and newbies to the game for almost 5 years now, I know running a tabletop game...
Pop Culture Classroom Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
By Holly M., Pop Culture Classroom September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month! To celebrate, we’re spotlighting Latinx and Hispanic Americans who’ve influenced the history of the United States. These comics are a great way to learn American history that you...
Page 23 Literary Conference 2020 Kicks Off October 15
Did you know that Denver Pop Culture Con presents the annual Page 23 Literary Conference – to celebrate the most interesting academic elements of popular culture? We’ve been holding it at the live convention since our first year of Denver Comic Con in 2012. It makes...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Pop Culture Phenom and Wonder Woman
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Pop Culture Phenom and Wonder Woman By Christina Angel, PhD, Denver Pop Culture Con Director Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a hero to millions, a titan of the American justice system, and a genuine pop culture phenomenon....
Social-Emotional Learning, Black Panther, and Chadwick Boseman’s Legacy
Social-Emotional Learning, Black Panther, and Chadwick Boseman’s Legacy By: Matt Slayter, PCC Education Program Manager A Hero Falls The influence of Black Panther cannot be overstated. For many, especially young Black Americans, the hero’s inclusion in...
PopStream
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) A New Weekly Pop Culture Show Coming this week — PopStream, a brand-new weekly program from Pop Culture Classroom and Denver Pop Culture Con. This new...
Cartoons that Spark Social Justice Conversations and Learning
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Faith Ojebuoboh, PCC Instructor Pop Culture has always raised political and social themes, especially comics and cartoons. The monsters in classic...
Leveraging the War Between Fortnite and Apple in the Classroom
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Matt Slayter – PCC Education Program Manager CURRENT EVENTS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL DISCUSSION Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite, have waged an...
Celebrating the 19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage
Celebrating the 19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Enshrining the right to vote regardless of gender, ratification offered new political power for millions of women — and heralded other...
Tips for Victorious Virtual Learning
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Erik Jacobson, PCC Instructor Ask any educator or parent: the 2020-2021 school year is going to be a unique and challenging one. Right now, virtual...
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family
Exploring Interactive Storytelling through Batman: A Death in the Family(Plus 7 More Interactive Stories) By Matt Slayter – PCC Education Program Manager Last week, DC Entertainment released their trailer for Batman: Death in the Family. Labeled as an...
Story Prompts for Tabletop Roleplaying Game Inspiration
Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll LoveBy Faith Ojebuoboh , PCC Instructor Running tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPG’s) is fun, but occasionally we as storytellers (aka: Game Masters/Dungeon Masters) struggle to plan or prepare new stories for our players. Here are a...
Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll Love
Young Adult Graphic Novels You’ll Love By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor Looking for Young Adult Graphic Novels can be intimidating. When I was a teenager, venturing into a comic shop felt like a record scratch, followed by silence as I tried to browse the shelves....
Where to Start with YA Fantasy Literature
Where to Start with YA Fantasy Literature By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor Five books to start your YA Fantasy Lit Adventure! Listen, when it comes to real life, things are weird right now. Dystopias have dominated the Young Adult Fantasy genre for a long time, and...
Pop Culture Classroom Teams with Mega Manga Publisher VIZ Media for Summer Book Clubs
Colorado nonprofit partners with #1 U.S. manga publisher for #GotManga Summer Book Clubs to unlock educational potential in Japanese-style comics Resources engage kids through popular manga titles like Beastars, Naruto, and My Hero Academia (Denver, July 6) — Pop...
6 Anime to Keep Kids Learning Over Summer
6 Anime to Keep Kids Learning Over Summer By Terra Necessary, PCC Instructor Summer vacation makes it easy to sprawl out, throw on an anime, and let the day melt away. Binge-watching is an anime fan’s favorite pastime, and in the summer of COVID-19 there’s lots...
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