For the past couple years as September looms, I find myself awake in the middle of the night thinking about school and designing course structures. But there is always one night, that rather than get up and do some work, I watch the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)  and live performance.  It started a couple years ago when my Twitter feed started jumping to references of Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus. And this year, when a former student tweeted her vote, I realized it was time to watch.

In the next couple posts, I want to explain why I think its important for me to watch these awards to become an informed educator.  I also want to make a call out to parents to be aware of these awards and discuss the complexity of how to take apart the images in these awards.