The Education of an Artist: Lessons from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Journey

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has transformed the world of musical storytelling with his giant stage and screen hits: Hamilton, In the Heights, Moana, Encanto, and more. But this Grammy-, Tony-, Emmy-, and Pulitzer-winning songwriter didn’t do it alone. As a new book, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist, argues, Miranda’s success stems not only from innate genius, but from a lifetime of insatiable curiosity and an overwhelming appetite to learn from everyone around him.

Join author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner for this edWeb podcast to explore the teachers who shaped Miranda’s journey from the shy, sensitive child of Puerto Rican parents, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in the northernmost tip of Manhattan, to the galvanizing force who would expand America’s sense of its own story. How can we, as educators, nurture the future Lin-Manuels in our classrooms and communities? What are the parenting, teaching, collaborative, and creative lessons that Miranda’s story reveals?

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and school leaders, as well as higher education educators interested in the arts.

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