Damn, it feels good to be a teacher
Hey it’s Pam 🦋
Last summer, Dyalekt called me after teaching a class and without even saying hello, he said, “You know that song, Damn it feels good to be a gangsta? Well today, damn it feels good to be a teacher.”
I immediately yelled, “Ahhh, you have to write that song!”
He wrote the whole song later that night.
For his birthday in October, I surprised him with a studio session to record the song with producer, Willie Green.
I had no idea what would come of it, but we shared it with our Pockets Change Executive Director, Andrea, and a few weeks later, we found ourselves planning a song release party during teacher appreciation week in May 2025.
And now, all of a sudden, it’s May and we have a full fledged Teacher Appreciation Party during Teacher Appreciation Week at the Teach for America Headquarters in NYC!
I know there are teachers, teaching artists, coaches, mentors, after school educators, summer camp counselors, etc in our Get Shameless community and we wanted to extend an invitation to come party with us on May 9th in NYC 🎉
In a time when the very fabric of our education system is under threat, we want to honor those of you who continue to show up in classrooms, after school programs, youth organizations, and mentorship roles. We want to celebrate YOU!!
We’ll be releasing Dyalekt’s new song, Damn it feels good to be a teacher and we will be donating all streaming earnings to teacher classrooms via Donors Choose, so put the song on repeat if you dig it.