Education

The center offers personalized training and education on the use of community music experiences to improve health and wellness outcomes.

Music: A Teacher's Tool

Our current area of focus is Music: A Teacher's Tool, a training program for educators on the use of music-based experiences to support social-emotional development of adolescents and young adults. 

Summary of Training and Outcomes

The training has two parts:

• Part I: Music to Build and Connect with Community
  Social-emotional health skills targeted: Social awareness and relationship skills
• Part II: Music to Reset and Engage with Community
  Social-emotional health skills targeted: Social- and self-awareness and resiliency

Educators are trained to incorporate music activities during the school day to accomplish the following:

• Support the following areas of student social emotional health:
  • self- and social-awareness;
  • communication skills through nonverbal means;
  • self-regulation and coping skills by using music to assist students out of fight/flight stress response;
  • identity development; and
  • resiliency.
• Develop educator health/wellness practices.

This training was amazing and accessible! Such a wonderful session. I am looking forward to part 2!

— New hire science teacher at Esperanza Academy

This training was provided to staff at Esperanza Academy as part of its fall 2022 orientation seminar. A math teacher who attended the program remarked on the efficacy of the training: “We suggested using the 'brain bath tool' as a great way to transition in between recess and class."