Inspire Students & Remedy Lost Learning with Music

Dear Friends,

Thanks to you, the opportunity to make music successfully has been reaching GITC teachers and students during this unprecedented time. Sent home for safety and expected to teach and learn online twelve long months ago, students and teachers have been facing huge technical challenges as issues of access to tech and economic ability to afford Internet services kept many from being able to continue learning. For those who could get online, the 2D environment was strange, remote and hard to use. But music is making a difference.

You personally gave us the financial assistance to help get music making into the hands of students and teachers for their online classrooms quickly and consistently. According to the teachers who received the gifts of instruments, teaching artistry and their own after school PD classes with GITC, music has been the greatest tool for bringing children together and creating something positive during this international crisis! We are deeply grateful. 

This project has supported educators learning to teach through making music by getting instruments to their students in need in their virtual classrooms so they can play from home, and now back at school as they slowly reopen. One first grade teacher said, “Both attendance and participation are higher because the music helps keep kids engaged. We pick our ukes up throughout our lessons each day to practice grammar, syntax, basic structure and punctuation. It translates so well into language arts and brings new vocabulary into their world through song.” With your support, music has inspired each one's heart, mind and body, erased sadness, rebuilt hope and promoted subject learning through catchy songs!

Because of you, GITC is able to create precious musical opportunities for everyone. 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. 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. Thank you!

If you would like to actively participate with us in cultivating more music in education, we hope you’ll visit our website, engage with us in social media, subscribe to our monthly newsletter, and let your voice be heard!  

With heartfelt appreciation,

 Gail