About the Program

What is the
Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™?

• A Solution for Teaching Wellness, Physical Education, Music and the Arts in America’s Elementary Schools: At a time when Wellness, Physical Education, Music and the Arts are underfunded in most every state’s educational system, The Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ is the solution for bringing them back into America’s schools through funding via a private/public partnership private/public partnership that supports School Districts, Individual Teacher Scholarships, and Student Materials.
• A Unique, Comprehensive Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention Program: This fun, interactive, hands-on learning experience is designed so kid’s will remember the positive messages for a lifetime. Sample Hip Hop Song: Module 4: Improve Your Groove!/ Lesson 2: “Aerobic Exercises Rock!”
  Written and Performed by Holly Rudin-Braschi/ Produced and Recorded by Blair Hardman at Zone Recording. Copyright © Jyl Steinback and Holly Rudin-Braschi 2009.

"It Takes a Village!" Creating a Circle of Wellness Education:
The Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program For Children™ starts with K-6th grade teachers and flows to students, their parents, grandparents, and ultimately involves the community at-large.

Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children Outline

What makes the Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ unique among all other K-6th wellness programs?

It uses Heart Health as a framework to help educators teach overall wellness within an 8-week period via 8 exciting teaching modules!

• Module 1: Meet Doctor Beat…Your Fascinating Heart
• Module 2: Take Down da’ Pressure...Maintaining Great Blood Pressure
• Module 3: Eat Good Food, Dude...Nutrition for Great Health
• Module 4: Improve Your Groove…The Many Benefits of Exercise
• Module 5: Grin it, Win it...Dental Health Means Heart Health
• Module 6: Think Hip ‘n Happy…Positive Thinking for Healthy Heart
• Module 7: Money Matters ... Learning to Manage Money
• Module 8: Join the Gree Team ... Teamwork for a Healthy Planet

Comprehensive and Inventive: The Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ brings the Arts and Physical Education back into the schools as part of a multidisciplinary, standards-based teaching curriculum that focuses on core subjects. Research has proven that children who study arts¹ and get physical exercise² get better grades.

Hands-On Fun Means Subject Retention: Our lesson plans, activities and handouts make learning fun. Students learn language arts, math, science, geography and social studies through poetry, music, dance, the graphic arts and physical education. Our 6-week program includes:

• 40 Complete Lessons Include: Comprehensive Teacher Training and Lesson Plans • Handouts • Answer Sheets • In-Class, At-Home and On-Line Activities
• Module Topics: Use Heart Health as a framework to teach Nutrition, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Dental Health, Mind-Body Fitness, Stress Management and much more
• Hip Hop Rhymes: 40 Rhymes summarize each lesson’s subject matter and facilitate learning
• Over 200 Activities and Handouts and Answer Sheets: Focus on training students in critical thinking, information analysis, organization, comparison, and synthesis.
• State-by-State Curriculum Standards: As we introduce the program state-by-state, each of the 8 modules will be matched to state curriculum standards.
• Assessment Benchmarks: Tests are provided for each module to assess each student’s key subject matter retention. Parent assessment forms are also provided to help assess student wellness habits before and after taking the program.
• Professional Development Clock Hours for teachers

Three Versions:

• K-3rd Grade
• 4-6th Grade
• Complete Program: K-6th Grade

A Circle of Wellness Education that Trains Teachers, Students, their Parents and their Community:
The Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ features activity handouts designed to go home and get parents, grandparents and the community involved in each child’s wellness education. Ultimately, everyone gets educated.
 

The Hip Hop Healthy Heart for Children™ curriculum has been approved by Board-Certified:

• Pediatrician
• Cardiologist
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician with a specialty in Sports Medicine

The Center for Disease Control reports that school-based health education programs that encourage healthy behaviors are the most effective method of combating cardiovascular illnesses and can reduce the prevalence of obesity by 50% among elementary school children.

¹American Music Conference: Music and Grades
American Music Conference
accessed on 6-18-2009

Music lessons may boost IQ and grades
Monitor on Psychology
accessed on 6-18-2009

²Kids Who Exercise Can Get Better Grades
Sports are 80% Mental
accessed on 6-18-2009

ACSM ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT HIGHER AMONG MOST ACTIVE KIDS
Vigorous Physical Activity Linked to Better Grades.
American College of Sports Medicine
accessed on 6-18-2009

Written and Performed by Holly Rudin-Braschi/ Produced and Recorded by Blair Hardman at Zone Recording. Copyright © Jyl Steinback and Holly Rudin-Braschi 2009.