We finally get to hear from Jamie! Jamie Jun shares her story, how she became an educator, and why play is so vital in learning. Join us!

Our Social Media: @CHClassroom
Find Us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/CHClassroom
Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman
Jamie Jun: @jmejune

To learn more about San Diego Orff Levels, go to: tinyurl.com/SDOrffLevels

Books Featured:
Pocket Full of Sads - Brad Davidson
The Helping Sweater - Rachel Mas Davidson
Rain Before Rainbows - Smriti Prasadam-Halls
The Mixed Up Chameleon - Eric Carle
Eyes That Speak to the Stars - Joanna Ho
My Invisible Bubble - Michelle Chan
The Little Kiwi’s New Year - Nikki Slade Robinson

Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at www.crystalpridmore.com

Jonathan Seligman is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony. To see his happenings and all he's doing, go check his website at www.jonseligman.com

Care to learn more about San Diego Orff Levels 2025? Session is from June 30-July 11. Click the link below: tinyurl.com/SDOrffLevels

Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial.
Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways.
As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client.
Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting missiontrailsfinancial.com

116: Why is Fun Important to Jamie Jun? - Chaotic Harmony Podcast

Cat Woo and Joshua Block join us today to talk about why Orff Levels is valuable! Things have changed over the years and what they've seen, so they offer their insight. Join us on this two parter!

Our Social Media: @CHClassroom
Find Us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/CHClassroom
Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman
Cat Woo: catmaiwoo@gmail.com
Joshua Block: jblock.aosa@gmail.com

Spiccato: Postage stamps
Round of the Week: Wau Saw

Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at www.crystalpridmore.com

Jonathan Seligman is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony. To see his happenings and all he's doing, go check his website at www.jonseligman.com

Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial.
Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways.
As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client.
Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting missiontrailsfinancial.com

117 - What Do You Get Out of Teaching Orff Levels? p1 - Chaotic Harmony Podcast

An energetic freeze-dance track for kids with a playful EDM beat. Combines movement, rhythm, and stop/go listening cues. Perfect for classrooms, parties, and brain breaks. Interactive, fun, and full of surprises.

Freeze Dance Fiesta

In Mrs Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy (HSC)

Suit up for action with “Superhero Stomp” by CC3PO! A fun, beat-driven children’s anthem packed with bold rhythms, stomps, and playful energy. Designed to inspire movement, confidence, and big hero vibes—perfect for classrooms, dance time, or feel-good fun!

Superhero Stomp

Classroom Freestyle (The Beginning) - Mind of Tragedy

Incomplete?

Episode 217: Deliberative Dialogues with Judy Pace

Episode 219: The State of Elementary Social Studies with Linda Doornbos, Annie Whitlock, & Maggie Demarse

Why do we hurt but not care so much?
Why do we walk and not feel the touch
Of the trees and bees and all the skies—
Don’t you see the world through your own eyes?

If you look around, there’s work to do,
But I believe in me and you!

 We can do better, just you and me!
Pick up the trash, keep plastic from the sea!
Love every flower, every bird in the sky,
Help a sick tree and never ask why!
We can do better, we can be kind—
Let’s show some love, the Earth won’t mind! 

We can help puppies who need a home,
Give hugs to kittens who feel alone.
We can save water, and walk to school,
'Cause caring for Earth is super cool!

If we all try just a little more,
Think of what we're working for!

We can do better, just you and me!
No more straws in the deep blue sea!
Penguins need ice, birds need trees—
Let’s give them air and cleaner seas!
We can do better, let’s all agree—
Earth Day is every day for you and me! 

Let’s use just what we really need,
Plant a flower, drop a seed.
Say "I love you" to the sky,
And wave at every butterfly!

 We can do better, just you and me!
Hug a tree and dance so free!
Pick up a bottle, save a bee—
We’re the helpers Earth needs to be!
We can do better, now you see—
It starts today with you and me! 

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Written by Emilia
Produced by Punish Studios
Enhanced by AI

We Can Do Better

fw it especially if you're in-school phone bans be crazy
i feel like the only reason teachers cared about people smoking is when they were being weird about it not listening or the teacher had a bad day 

Back Of Class

classroom [dxrii]

This episode of CAA Conversations, featuring Lilia Cabrera, Gina Gwen, and Christen S. García, considers borderlands-informed art pedagogies as acts of classroom, community, and artist practice, in both formal and informal spaces of art education. These guests make productive liminal spaces of art education by harnessing cultural, navigational, familial, creative, and linguistic capital. 

Lilia Cabrera explores multiple environments with her art education students, offering experiences to work alongside hospital patients, asylum seekers in shelters, and resident doctors in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, hospitals. Her students work with communities with a range of age groups, motor skills, and cognitive abilities. She has taught art at various levels ranging from early childhood to university. She creates opportunities that align with the education of regional communities lacking in art experiences and has led art education students to create art workshops to delicate, low-economic, and multicultural youth in a border town. Cabrera is a lecturer for the art education program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an Associate Dean for Student Succes for the College of Fine Arts.   
 
Gina Gwen Palacios creates work highlighting the underrepresented geographic and cultural narrative of the people and land of South Texas. Rooted in the theory of conocimiento, Palacios invites viewers to embrace a multiplicity of perspectives and honor the rich, marginalized knowledge and history embedded in the US/South Texas borderlands. She is an associate professor and the Director for the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley.  
 
Christen S. García theorizes through lived experiences, sharing autohistoria-teorías as creative capital in nepantla espacios. García is co-founder of the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project and is an associate professor in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. García is co-author of Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching, with Leslie C. Sotomayor II (Routledge, 2025) and is co-editor of the book BIPOC Alliances: Building Community and Curricula (Information Age Publishing, 2023). 

Borderlands Art Pedagogies as Community, Classroom, and Artist Practice

High-energy Atlanta-trap bounce for the after-haul ritual: dump the sweets, sort by color/shape/size, count by tens, sip water, zip it up. Big 808s, crisp delivery, tons of repeatable call-and-response so kids can shout along while adults keep their sanity. Timeless (no holiday refs), purely about sharing, sorting, and counting.

Good for: classroom clean-ups, party breaks, car-ride hype, PE/movement minutes.
Clean content: kid-safe lyrics, no scary SFX, no sirens.
BPM: ~142 • Vibe: punchy, playful, repeatable.
If you use it in a short, tag KANTIBUS / Juice Box Jams so we can repost 🧥🍬

SWEET SORT!

808-forward reggaeton-trap flip of the classic chant; call-and-response moves, counting 1–10, and a sunny dembow bounce. Male lead with light island accent; crisp, kid-safe bars and a giant hook parents can tolerate on loop. Perfect for classroom movement, party breaks, and car-ride energy.

Vibe: punchy, playful, repeatable • BPM: 140 • Lane: JBJ trap with dembow spice
If you use it in a short, tag KANTIBUS / Juice Box Jams so we can repost. 🟡🧃

KNICK-KNACK DEMBOW TRAP

An accurate musical depiction of the process of grading papers. A+ work!

Grading Papers

The answer is no I don’t think it sounds good but at least I’m not selling pics of myself🧌

Started making Music with Friends in the late 90s with the Rap Group Clear Deceptions Circa (1998-2008) Had Opportunities to be featured on Artists song throughout the years, Tech N9Ne, Hard Target, Etc...

Now 20 Years Later It's My Time to Make an Album! Written, Performed, Engineered, and Mixed/Mastered 100% Independent with the Backing of My Friends, Family, and Twitch Streaming Community!
https://www.twitch.tv/therealkabosh

Album Dropping End of 2025! Get Ready!

🎙️ Independent storyteller | 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | Voice through survival
I use AI-assisted tools to co-create some of my music, but every lyric, edit, and emotional heartbeat is mine.

All songs are legally licensed for commercial release. I rewrite, restructure, and remix every line until it reflects real life — mine, and maybe yours too.

If it helps even one person feel less alone in their frustration, grief, or journey… then it was worth creating.

🧠 Music built from survival.
🫀 Songs crafted with truth.
🤖 Powered by technology. Driven by heart.

Visions of Education is an education podcast where education professor Dan Krutka and high school social studies teacher Michael Milton have conversations with educators to discuss their big ideas in education. VoE also partners with the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and associated groups to provide the latest from classroom teachers, education, professors, and researchers on social studies education.

KANTIBUS is an American producer/songwriter who has been creating songs since 1990.

It is a portmanteau of his first initial and last name. 

KANTIBUS started creating what would eventually become known as Drill or Trap Music, demonstrating expertise in both genres. 

As such, he is a pioneer of the "violent real life criminal" styles that exist still in the underground today. 

MUSIC INTEGRITY! Punish Studios creates music that matters written by REAL HUMAN BEINGS! Created by artist Johnny Punish in 2008, Punish Studios is committed to creating outstanding media and music in the Rock, Country, and Hip-Hop genres.  Along with traditional studio recording techniques, we use A.I. to enhance our well-crafted-human-written songs.  Our writers are members of ASCAP.  For more detailed information, please www.PunishStudios.com

Led by Crystal Pridmore and Jonathan Seligman, conversations between elementary music teachers who explore the joys and struggles of teaching music in public schools.

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

New tracks tagged #classroom