
As part of a local partnership team consisting of Chautauqua Institution, Jamestown Public Schools and the Chautauqua Lake Central School District and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program, Baba Bomani, a Washington, D.C., artist recently guided Ring and Love Elementary School and Jamestown High School ninth grade English students in synthesizing factual information by writing lyrics for a hip-hop song about themselves through a fresh and energizing professional development and classroom workshops.