Alyssa Monas sits before a half-dozen toddlers, clutching a steady old friend, the $150 acoustic guitar her mother bought for her on a cable shopping network ages ago. “Good morning, friends,” Monas ...
As California schools ramp up arts education, they may need 15,000 new teachers who are passionate about both the arts and teaching the next generation. One person with both those passions is ...
A trending AI song went viral, but in my classroom, it did something even more powerful: it unlocked student voice. When teachers discuss AI in education, the conversation often focuses on risk: ...
(Note: The transcripts in this webcase are excerpted from longer classroom discussions. They are not intended for use independent of the videos that they accompany.) Teacher: Before I play the song ...
It seems that our species has loved music for ages. We've found proto-instruments such as conch shells, the first wind instruments used by our ancestors. We like to hear melodies, shake our hips to ...