Pockets Change

Free admission

Donate to Pockets Change

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; color: rgb(42, 42, 196); padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;">First name , We can&#39;t wait to party with you during Teacher Appreciation Week for the Damn it feels good to be a teacher release party! 🎶 Pre-save the song here: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/</a>&nbsp; If you have any resources you&#39;d like to share in our Teacher Care Toolkit, please <a fr-original-style="" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDrJgVvrv47GdP5Uuo4sKIu0W7xSlHSrmqmPSFgUbPx8CYvw/viewform?usp=dialog" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">fill out this google form</a>.&nbsp; If you want to collaborate in other ways or partner with us, please reach out, we&#39;d love to chat! ✨ The Pockets Change Teamsmallchange@pocketschange.com

🎶<a href="https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/" target="_blank">Pre-save the song here</a> This year, Pockets Change wants to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with you on May 9th at the Teach for America Headquarters! 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 (a cover of Geto Boys’ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw&amp;ab_channel=UPROXX" target="_blank">Damn it feels good to be a gangsta</a>).  ALL STREAMING EARNINGS DONATED TO TEACHERS! We will be donating all streaming earnings to teacher classrooms via Donors Choose once per quarter, so put the song on repeat if you dig it. <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LGZhgkIBahs0zfWBHgdXk" target="_blank">Follow Dyalekt on Spotify</a> so you get notified when the song is released!  🎶<a href="https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/" target="_blank">Pre-save the song here</a> But wait, there’s more! Come for the song, stay for the:<ul><li>Skinny slice pizza &amp; chicken wings (plus other fun finger food!)</li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/farbeon/" target="_blank">DJ Farbeon</a> on the 1’s and 2’s (he also happens to be a Teach for America alum!)</li><li>Damn it feels good to be a teacher tote bag + teacher care &amp; advocacy toolkit</li><li>Raffle prizes, including Sony equipment ($100-$700 value), one-year access to the Pockets Change curriculum ($500 value), and a Pockets Change student workshop led by Dyalekt ($1,500 value)</li></ul> ORIGIN STORY: This song and this party exists because Dyalekt came back from teaching a <a href="http://pocketschange.com/" target="_blank">Pockets Change</a> Hip Hop + Finance workshop and said, "you know that song, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw&amp;ab_channel=UPROXX" target="_blank">Damn it feels good to be a gangsta</a>? Well today, damn it feels good to be a teacher." And his wife yelled, "ahh you have to write that song!!!"  🎶<a href="https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/" target="_blank">Pre-save the song here</a> He wrote the whole song later that night. A few months later, he found out he was chosen to be one of the <a href="https://pasesetter.org/events/2025-pasesetter-awards-benefit" target="_blank">2025 PASEsetter winners</a> for excellence in after school education! Damn, it feels good to be a teacher. Pockets Change <a href="http://pocketschange.com/team" target="_blank">is led by two life long educators</a>, Andrea Ferrero, our fearless ED, and Dyalekt, our Directory of Pedagogy. They've both been educators for over 20 years because damn, it feels good to be a teacher. 🎶<a href="https://ffm.to/damnitfeelsgood/" target="_blank">Pre-save the song here</a>

Pockets Change

Teacher Appreciation + Release Party: Damn, it feels good to be a teacher

25 Broadway 12th floor

Free admission

Free

Donate to Pockets Change

$10

Add a donation