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...
Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at Home
Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at HomeBy Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor If you’re anything like me, all this time in quarantine means new books, movies, television shows, and developing new skills. I never learned how to cross-stitch, and with the...
The Best Tools to Create Your Own Comic
The Best Tools to Create Your Own ComicBy Dion Harris, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor There are so many reasons to create your own comics – career aspirations, social and emotional learning, literacy building, the love of art and storytelling. And there’s even more...
Children’s Comic Contest
Children's Comic ContestPop Culture Classroom is proud to launch our fourth comic book contest for kids! Calling all parents, educators, and comic book fans! Pop Culture Classroom is launching our fourth comic book contest for kids, and we're asking for your help to...
Pop Culture Classroom Launches Fun, New Distance Learning Page
(Denver, April 24, 2020) — Pop Culture Classroom, the Colorado-based educational non-profit and community group behind Denver Pop Culture Con, today launched a new, resource-rich webpage dedicated to distance learning. "So many of us engage with pop culture on a...
How Dungeons and Dragons Can Slay Isolation and Educate
By Faith Ojebuoboh, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor Dungeons and Dragons isn’t just a game — it also helps develop educational and social skills! Using probability to think about the chances by sneaking around a fire-breathing dragon? Cooperating to solve a riddle to...
Kids Stuck at Home? Pop Culture Classroom Has Free Comics, Lesson Plans, and More.
(Denver, CO) — As schools and libraries close across the US, Pop Culture Classroom is working to help provide educational content for students in the face of uncertainty over class scheduling. In addition to the free comics and other educational resources currently...
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