Most students in virtual classrooms are missing out on joyful, creative learning experiences during this long pandemic. Fatigue from navigating tech, multiple apps and long hours spent online combine with a sense of risk and social isolation to cause depression, disengagement and lost learning. Music helps. This project will fund GITC inspire and engage hundreds of students "at promise"in Title I virtual classrooms by sending instruments home and providing uplifting music leadership each week.
Around the U.S, students are struggling through the pandemic. Their need for social contact, hands-on instruction and physical activity has gone largely unmet. Staring into screens has made their attention wander and learning is lagging. In economically challenged communities where Coronavirus losses have soared, students are experiencing trauma. All the lost learning may impose long term consequences on kids so teachers need a way to engage and inspire these students while we await a vaccine.
15,000 teachers have learned to sing, drum, play ukulele and guitar with GITC since 2000. We train teachers for free 6 days a week online. This project will support several who are learning to teach through making music to get instruments to their students in need in their virtual classrooms so they can play from home - and also back at school when it's safe. This project will inspire each one's heart, mind and body, erase sadness, rebuild hope and promote subject learning through catchy songs!
This work instills life-long love of learning & success and music! It imparts a permanent solution because teachers train and keep playing for years at school. All children are reached, including those in Title 1 and public school classrooms- GITC creates precious musical opportunities for everyone. This approach makes classrooms happier places, enables students to bring up their grades and test scores, schools get stronger, and teachers acquire an inspiring new way to do their best!
