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TOUGH LOVE AND BASKETBALL - #THERAPYTHURSDAYS
📅 #TherapyThursdays — Kendrick Lamar’s “Father Time” 📝 H2TW: Hip-hop Therapeutic Writing In his powerful track “Father Time,” Kendrick...
Dad Cypher
Aug 71 min read


🧠🔥 #TransformativeTuesday – Teach Your Child to Be Like Allen Iverson 🏀✍🏽
DADCYPHER EDUTAINMENT Allen Iverson wasn’t just a baller—he was The Answer 🗣️. The iconic Sixers guard carried Philly on his back,...
Dad Cypher
Aug 51 min read


Therapeutic Thursdays
🌊 “Many months of Sundays, I window-shopped, never to receive a morsel of my dad's attention.” 💔 I stayed enslaved to the hope of his...
Dad Cypher
Jul 311 min read


Malcolm's Gift: A Lesson for Students from Malcolm Jamal Warner
H2TW: Hip-hop Transformative Tutoring and Writing #TransformativeTuesdays – Malcolm’s Gift 🎁 ✍🏾 I remembered when I first heard about...
Dad Cypher
Jul 292 min read


Play It Back: How to Get Students to Write the First Draft
H2TW – Hip-Hop Transformative Tutoring and Writing: Transformative Tuesdays 🎧 Play It Back After watching Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and...
Dad Cypher
Jul 152 min read


H2TW - Therapeutic Thursday's - When Tough Love Turns Toxic: Rewriting "Father Time."
Kendrick Lamar's "Father Time" H2TW – Hip-hop Therapeutic Writing 🎤 Therapeutic Thursday Prompt "When Tough Love Turns Toxic: Rewriting...
Dad Cypher
Jul 102 min read


Dedicated to the Dads who feel they walk alone
Denzel Curry "Walkin" "I been walkin’ with my back to the sun..." – Denzel Curry I used to think chasing degrees and paychecks made me a...
Dad Cypher
Jul 21 min read


✊🏾 Now Booking: Transformative & Therapeutic Writing Sessions
Are you a student, parent, or teen parent ready to level up your writing?Or someone healing from trauma who wants to use writing to...
Dad Cypher
Jun 231 min read


🎓 Parents Need to Stop Celebrating High School Graduation! 🚫🎉
🎓 Parents Need to Stop Celebrating High School Graduation! 🚫🎉 I hate high school graduations. Not because I dislike celebrating...
Dad Cypher
Mar 43 min read


What Happens When the Eagle Stops Stirring the Nest? Parents Stop Babying Your Babies!!!
And the Mother Eagle struggled to reach her nest. Her wings are ragged, and her talons are slightly cracked. Lord only knows how she...
Dad Cypher
Feb 183 min read


Why ELA Teachers Should Perform Exorcisms in Class
Why ELA Teachers Should Perform Exorcisms in Class: Empowering students to face their trauma and begin their healing journey. Listen up,...
Dad Cypher
Feb 113 min read


Swing a Hammer at their Dreams
"Turn your vision into a mountain, then swing Thor’s hammer and make it a molehill." Teach students how to break down challenges and...
Dad Cypher
Feb 42 min read


Wanna Reach Your Students ? Be Jesus.
Educators come up to me all the time asking me why should they use Hip-hop Therapeutic Writing to boost their students' social-emotional...
Dad Cypher
Jan 302 min read


Season Greetings from DadCypher Edutainment LLC
#DadCypher #Fatherhood #Education #Hiphop #HiphopTherapeuticWriting
Dad Cypher
Dec 23, 20241 min read


🎤 "The DadCypher: Empowering Urban Dads Through Hip-Hop" 🎤
🚨✨ WEBINAR ALERT! ✨🚨 🎤 "The DadCypher: Empowering Urban Dads Through Hip-Hop" 🎤 📅 When: Thursday, November 21 🕐 1 PM EST📍...
Dad Cypher
Nov 18, 20241 min read


"Beyond the Hammer: Equipping Revolutionary Teachers to Build Emotional Intelligence in Black Youth"
Once upon a time, there was a little Black boy whose parents only had a hammer 🔨 in the toolbox. Whenever the little boy saw a loose...
Dad Cypher
Nov 11, 20242 min read


Election Blues: How Educators Will Overcome Trump's Agenda for Public Education
Election Blues: How Educators Will Overcome Trump’s Agenda for Public Education After the election, many begrudgingly came to grips with...
Dad Cypher
Nov 6, 20243 min read


A Moment of Hip-Hop Therapeutic Writing History
✊🏾✋🏾🕊️ A hip-hop therapeutic classic, Geto Boys' “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”, touched on topics like paranoia, depression, and...
Dad Cypher
Nov 2, 20241 min read


How to Season a Bland Lesson on Writing – For My ELA Teachers ✊🏾📚📝
Yo Fam, I was in the classroom, ready to teach my listener how to write a body paragraph. Each part of the lesson was broken down into a...
Dad Cypher
Oct 28, 20242 min read


How to Help At-Risk Students to Find Their Village
#SocialEmotionalLearning #HipHopEd #edutok #pedagogy #atriskyouth #hiphoptherapy #therapeuticwriting #teachersoftiktok #englishprofessor...
Dad Cypher
Oct 21, 20241 min read
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