Breakout Pedagogy provides a framework for the inclusion of Hip Hop culture in schools. Working from the perspective of a classroom teacher, Mooney reflects on the story of Work Up!, a Hip Hop and spoken work poetry event that began with students in a New Jersey high school making the case for a pedagogy with the potential to transform urban schools and the way we think about them.

The audacity of breaking -- A nuyo love -- Breakin' it down -- Word up! -- Breakbeat pedagogy -- Writing as breaking -- Reading as breaking -- Speaking as breaking -- Pimping butterflies and teaching stars -- Future breaks.