While we’re on summer break, it can be challenging to wrangle a crew together to experience something new. With that being said, it’s also very important to me as an educator, to ensure that my students are exposed to all the opportunities possible. We formed an alliance with the University of Houston’s Center for Student Media earlier in the year, and finally got to bring our students together for a day of collaborative learning. My students got the opportunity to pick the brains of the U of H students about college – from admissions to scholarships, and the U of H students got a little knowledge from my students about Third Ward, and the effects of gentrification. Everyone worked together to complete a few reporting assignments that took us into U of H’s famed Hip Hop Archives, and a couple of students even got to shoot an edit a music video for a U of H student artist. It was a great day all around, and I’m excited about the potential for our partnership to continue to flourish as we enter the 2016-2017 school year!