New York City Partner School Programs
Education Through Music forms long-term partnerships with inner-city elementary and middle schools that lack the resources to develop school-wide music programs. Music is taught both as a subject in its own right and as a means of supporting learning in other areas. Each partnership aims to support students' learning and development in music and in all areas, and to build capacity among school and community members to sustain programs.
In collaboration with each principal, each partnership employs the following components to reinforce music's role as a core subject:
- Music instruction for every child that is weekly, yearlong, and follows a skills-based, comprehensive and sequential curriculum
- Integration to support student learning in a range of academic areas
- Professional development to improve instruction and to increase support and understanding of arts education in the school community
- Enrichment opportunities, such as concerts, private lessons and summer camp scholarships
- Evaluation and assessment
- Parent and community involvement
- Long-term planning for sustaining instruction.
ETM hires music teachers to serve as music faculty where needed, so that each partner school can provide weekly music instruction to every student, both general and special education, regardless of talent or ability. We work with a variety of collaborating organizations to provide enrichment opportunities to students. We provide ongoing training and mentoring to our ETM music teachers and any music teachers in place at our schools; professional development to academic teachers; and one-on-one and group leadership and strategic planning guidance to principals. We speak at parent meetings. We assess programs through ongoing communication, skills assessments, observation rubrics, surveys and other analysis.
New York City Partnerships - 2011-12
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P.S. 531 X P.S./M.S. 498 X M.S. 180 X M.S. 424 X M.S. 529 X Blessed Sacrament School St. Ann School St. Anselm School St. Athanasius School St. Clare School St. Mark the Evangelist School St. James/St. Joseph
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Who We Serve
During 2011-12, ETM's model serves:
- 13,000 children in New York City, through ETM's partnerships with 25 schools.
- 8,000 children in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, through the work of ETM-LA and ETM-Bay Area, two organizations which we have licensed to replicate our model.
Quotes
"Students [developed] talents no one knew they had."
-Classroom teacher, St. Athanasius
