Tekelia Kelly http://www.tekeliakelly.com
All Aboard! Take the S.T.E.A.M Train! Travel back to the future with STEAM Teaching Artist Tekelia Kelly! Move students full-STEAM ahead from history to the 21st century and make them future-ready with Tekelia’s one-woman shows designed to enrich Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) education as well as Career and Technical Education, Digital Citizenship and Character Education. Whether a ticket subsidy show or curriculum-rich residency, Tekelia, an Entrepreneur, Engineer, Educator and Instructional Designer, will work to provide you a standards-based, interactive, and hands-on learning experience that builds life skills, academics and the 4 C’s of 21st century learning: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking. Enjoy Tekelia’s reciting of poetry like “In The Morning” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar designed to increase Social Emotional Learning and English Language Learning; or Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” used to teach Artificial Intelligence with the groundbreaking “AI, Ain’t I A Woman” poem by Programmer and Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini. Experience Tekelia’s reenactments of the lives and works of history-making African-Americans like Harriet Tubman, Billie Holiday, and Mahalia Jackson, with spirituals, jazz and gospel songs that played a vital role in the journey towards freedom during American Slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights Movement eras; and in helping America live out its true creed of “one nation under God with liberty and justice for all”. Meet Tekelia at her hometown Chattanooga Choo Choo Train Station for revolutionary 21st century education, onsite or online. Learn from her role playing games and adventures, featuring Harriet Tubman in “Hacking the Code to the Underground Railroad”. It’s singing and storytelling at its best, with STEAM Project-Based Learning that honors a people’s story and a nation’s journey, from history to the 21 century, empowering all humanity, while integrating technology, to make students future-ready with learning and leading in a way no book can.
Contact Tekelia Kelly at tekeliakelly@comcast.net
Artist Work Samples
Sample Programs Offered
Program Type: Arts Appreciation
Program Description:
Performing as a one-woman show entitled “She Sings: Spirituals and Work Songs of Slavery in the 1600-1800s”, Teaching Artist Tekelia Kelly captivates and educates through song and story, as she teaches about a time in history when African-American Negro Spirituals, Gospel and Work songs, and those who sang them during Slavery, were an integral part of American and African-American experience. As a tribute artist to the music of that era, reenacting the events and people as a backdrop, Tekelia engages students with singing, storytelling, role playing and interactive dialogue, including questions and answers. Students benefit from her live human performance that shows-and-tells about history the way no book can.
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Program Type: Arts Appreciation
Program Description:
Performing as a one-woman show entitled She Sings: Songs of Jazz and The Great Depression in the 1930-1940s”, Teaching Artist Tekelia Kelly captivates and educates through song and story, as she teaches about a time in history when Jazz songs and those who performed them during the Great Depression were an integral part of American and African-American experience. As a tribute artist to the music of that era, reenacting the events and people as a backdrop, Tekelia engages students with singing, storytelling, role playing and interactive dialogue, including questions and answers. Students benefit from her live human performance that shows-and-tells about history the way no book can.
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Program Type: Arts Appreciation
Program Description:
Performing as a one-woman show entitled “She Sings: Songs of Freedom and Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s”, Teaching Artist Tekelia Kelly captivates and educates through song and story, as she teaches about a time in history when Freedom Songs and those who sang them during the Civil Rights Movement were an integral part of American and African-American experience. As a tribute artist to the music of that era, reenacting the events and people as a backdrop, Tekelia engages students with singing, storytelling, role playing and interactive dialogue, including questions and answers. Students benefit from her live human performance that shows-and-tells about history the way no book can.
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