Wondering if you should bring the kids to DPCC? The answer is definitely yes! What sets DPCC apart from almost every other con is that we are produced by an educational non-profit Pop Culture Classroom.…
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Pop Culture Classroom Enters 3rd Year of Partnership with Youth One Book, One Denver
Pop Culture Classroom is excited to announce a continued partnership with Youth One Book, One Denver (YOBOD) Programs this summer! Since 2013, Pop Culture Classroom has offered over a dozen summer workshops and reached hundreds…
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Webcomics for the Classroom: Part 1
Contributed by: Jason Nisavic When students walk in the door to start your class period, what do they expect to find? Hopefully, they look forward to your class as a chance to engage with something…
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El Deafo Review
Review by Chloe Anderson Written and Illustrated by Cece Bell Winner of the John Newberry Medal SYNOPSIS El Deafo is perfect for new readers as a bridge between sight-word books and more complex stories. It…
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Announcing the Winners of Our Third Annual Kids Comic Contest!
We are excited to announce the winners of the 3rd annual Pop Culture Classroom Kids’ Comics Contest! These young comic creators submitted excellent original works displaying the ideas of strength, justice, courage, and unity through…
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Announcing the 2017 Pop Culture Educator of the Year Award Winners!
We are excited to announce the 2017 winners of the first-ever Pop Culture Educator of the Year Award! Each of the award-winners below has demonstrated innovative use of pop culture as an educational tool in…
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PCC Partner Sterling Correctional Facilities Wins Will Eisner Grant from the ALA
Pop Culture Classroom is excited to announce that our partner Sterling Correctional Facilities (SCF) has been awarded The Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant from the American Library Association (ALA). This grant provides support to…
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Pop Culture Classroom showcased in National Council of Teachers of English Spring Journal!
We are pleased to announce that Pop Culture Classroom’s (PCC’s) comic issue, Discovering Literacy Through Comics, has been featured in the Spring Issue of the National Council of Teachers of English’s (NCTE’s) Voices from the…
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Inspiring Lifelong Readers: The Literary Power of Comics
Despite their rising influence across movies, TV, film, and literature, comics are still considered by many to be simple, low-brow superhero tales that lack any real-world impact. Even teachers using comics in their classrooms can…
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Workshop Spotlight: Whittier Elementary
Pop Culture Classroom is dedicated to offering students in classrooms all across the Front Range dynamic workshops exploring educational topics through the lens of pop culture. The latest of these was an exciting 8-week comic-creation…
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MARCH Review
By Eric Kallenborn Last August, I was privileged enough to hear Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, co-authors of the award-winning graphic novel trilogy March, speak at Evanston Public High School in Evanston, Illinois. It…
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Big Update from the DPCC’17 Cosplay Team!
Denver Pop Culture Con has some new and exciting changes to announce for 2017! We have a brand new Cosplay team and lots of improvements to our Cosplay Programming this year. Read on for the…
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Littles Need Comics, Too: Comics and Graphic Novels for Early Readers
By Ronell Whitaker “Are there any comics or graphic novels out there for the primary grades?” This is a question I get all the time from fellow teachers. It seems simple, but for years I…
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PCC and Action Lab Comics! Extend Partnership to 2020
Pop Culture Classroom is pleased and honored to announce the renewal of a continued partnership with Action Lab Comics! PCC’s arts and literacy curriculum Storytelling Through Comics (STC) is greatly supported by Action Lab, and…