| The Music Center is engaged in a special partnership with Julia B. Morrison Elementary School in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District. The purpose of the project is to explore new strategies for integrating music education as a vital aspect of the overall instructional program.
Download the Morrison Music Curriculum (PDF)
The project is part of the Learning Laboratory Schools Network supported by the Music-in-Education National Consortium http://www.music-in-education.org/.
The Music Center's project is supported by grants from the Arthur and Rose Gilbert Foundation and the Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation.
Key Questions:
The project is examining these key questions:
- How can an effective music program enhance literacy skills?
- How will the study of musical composition — i.e. elements of music, organizational structure of music — affect student comprehension of written text?
- To what extent can generalist classroom teachers provide music instruction?
- What level of sustained professional development is needed for teachers to become comfortable? capable?
- How do you best measure teacher growth?
- How does the role of a teaching artist change when the focus is on building teacher capacity?
- How can we measure student learning in music?
- Is the formulation for learning in music -- Listen, Question, Create, Perform, and Reflect -- applicable learning traits for all student learning?
- If children gain these processes/ skills in music, can they transfer them to other learning?
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