Seven ways in.
Every Chan Clan program starts with something young people already know and connects it to skills, careers, and ownership.
Stories From My Block
Your block is source material.
A multidisciplinary creative experience where young people turn their neighborhoods and personal experiences into art, products, performances, and opportunities.
Students start with what they know: the corner, the family group chat, the barbershop, the bus route. Then they learn how professionals turn that kind of material into something people wear, watch, read, and pay for.
Work moves across storytelling, fashion, design, performance, photography, media, and comedy, so every young person finds a way in and leaves with something they made.
For: Youth cohorts, schools, and community partners
Hip Hop Mic Drop
Hip Hop is a teaching language.
A culturally responsive education initiative that uses Hip Hop, music, language, identity, mathematics, storytelling, and culture as entry points for learning.
Hip Hop already teaches structure, rhythm, argument, metaphor, economics, and history. Hip Hop Mic Drop makes that teaching visible and connects it to classroom learning.
The initiative runs as student programming and as professional development for educators. It grows out of Hip Hop Mic Drop Vol. I by founder Zaria C. Chandler.
For: Students and educators
Hip Hop SEL
Social emotional learning that sounds like the room.
A culturally responsive SEL framework built around eight themes that young people already talk about, argue about, and write about.
Packaged SEL often asks students to set their culture aside and speak someone else's language about feelings. Hip Hop SEL starts from the music, stories, and experiences students bring, and builds the skills from there.
- Identity
- Purpose
- Belonging
- Voice
- Perception
- Accountability
- Community
- Legacy
For: Schools, youth programs, and advisory classes
Educator Reset
Teachers are people first.
Professional development built for educators: space to reflect on identity, purpose, classroom culture, well-being, creativity, and how they show up for young people.
Educator Reset is not a compliance training. It uses Hip Hop, film, music, and storytelling to help educators slow down, look again, and move from snap judgments about students toward curiosity about what is actually going on.
- Mic Off
- Mic On
- The Remix
- Mic Drop
For: Teachers, administrators, and youth-serving staff
Creative Entrepreneurship
Creativity can become ownership.
Young people learn to design, produce, brand, and sell what they create, and to see the business decisions behind the things they already buy.
Students work with real equipment and real materials, from heat presses to blank apparel. They price their work, name it, photograph it, and present it.
The point is not a single product. It is the moment a student realizes they can build something and own it.
Math + Real World Learning
Not just how. Why.
Hands-on mathematics connected to construction, trades, design, budgeting, and the everyday decisions students and families already make.
Students measure, scale, estimate, budget, and build. Proportional reasoning shows up in a floor plan. Percent shows up in a price tag and a paycheck.
The goal is students who can do the math and explain why it matters, because they have used it on something real.
Teen Comedy + Performance
Funny is a craft.
Young people work with professional comedians, performers, writers, and teaching artists to write, rehearse, revise, and take the stage.
Students learn writing, timing, storytelling, confidence, and revision, the same skills that carry into essays, interviews, and presentations.
They also learn how creative careers actually work: who gets paid, how, and what it takes to keep going.
For: Teens
Book Educator Reset
Professional development for schools, districts, and youth organizations that want their adults to show up differently for young people. Tell us your audience size, dates you are considering, and what your team is working through. We'll design the session with you.