Milwaukee · NBA partnership
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Rhymes With Reason
The Bucks are helping Milwaukee middle school students build literacy skills and academic confidence through music.
Explore the partnership
Partnership snapshot
Students impacted
Schools · St. Augustine Prep
and Townsend Street
Wisconsin
New-word classroom goal
The Assignment
Who
Middle school students at St. Augustine Preparatory Academy and Milwaukee Public Schools’ Townsend Street School.
The plan
Use music-powered vocabulary learning, with Bucks team experiences and mascot Bango as rewards for classroom progress.
The goal
Build literacy skills and academic confidence. A class average of 50 or more new words learned is one reward target.
The Milwaukee Bucks are helping middle school students across the city improve literacy skills and academic confidence with Rhymes with Reason, an educational technology program that uses popular music to make vocabulary learning engaging.
The partnership brings program access to more than 100 students at St. Augustine Preparatory Academy and Milwaukee Public Schools’ Townsend Street School. The Bucks also offer opportunities to meet team personalities, including mascot Bango.
Students can work together toward rewards, including a classroom average of 50 or more new vocabulary words learned. That figure is a target for earning rewards, not a reported learning outcome.
The Bucks aim to increase enthusiasm for classroom activities and support academic progress and self-esteem.
Impact in Progress
Reported reach · Learning results pending
Students impacted
Partner schools
Words learned
Reading outcomes
Partnership in Action
Music-powered learning and Bucks team experiences in Milwaukee.
Learning results
Reading and vocabulary outcomes have not been provided.
About Rhymes with Reason
Now available in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Rhymes with Reason is an educational technology utilized in over 300 schools across the country. We make a difference alongside high profile organizations including Chance the Rapper’s SocialWorks, The Los Angeles Chargers Impact Fund, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kaiser Permanente, The City of Detroit’s Grow Detroit Young Talent and San Diego’s Founders First Capital Partners CDC.
The program’s music-powered approach to closing the vocabulary and reading gap serves as a refreshing learning experience for youth in grades 2 through 12.
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