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…
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The Official Beer of DPCC’17 is “I AM BREWT”!
Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Pop Culture Con proudly announce that “I AM BREWT,” submitted by Rhiana Elizabeth Henry, is the name of the 2017 DPCC beer, a Bohemian Pilsner. Thank goodness we have such a…
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Vote for the 2017 Denver Pop Culture Con Official Beer Name!
Click on the button below to cast your vote! Denver Pop Culture Con and Breckenridge Brewery have carefully selected 4 finalists and now it’s up to you to vote for your favorite! You can vote…
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Pride of Baghdad Review
By Michael Gianfrancesco Brian K. Vaughan’s and Niko Henrichon’s 2006 masterpiece Pride of Baghdad combines fact and fiction in a way that not only creates an impactful and poignant story, but also makes serious and…
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Name the Denver Pop Culture Con Beer!
The annual “Name the Denver Pop Culture Con Beer” contest starts today! This is the 6th year Breckenridge Brewery has brewed a special beer just for the con. The 2017 DPCC beer is a Bohemian-style…
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Pop Culture Classroom’s Director of Education is speaking at TEDxCU
Pop Culture Classroom’s Director of Education, Illya Kowalchuk, M. Ed., is speaking at TEDxCU! As part of the event, Mr. Kowalchuk will give a must-see talk about PCC’s innovative program LEAD With Comics, a unique…