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How Our Model Works

Every child, at every school, deserves access to high-quality music education.

The ETM Difference: Our Unique & Exceptional Model

Our model is built on partnerships with principals, ongoing professional development for teachers, and highly personalized, sequential, and well-rounded music education programs. Designed to be fully integrated into schools, our model is adaptive and responsive to their needs and culture. A collaborative route to a comprehensive solution, our model ensures our partner schools can maintain and sustain their programs with success.

Professional Development

We hire passionate music teachers early in their careers and help them reach their potential through ongoing professional development. With comprehensive classes and workshops, we teach foundational skills like curriculum mapping, lesson planning, and instruction strategy. Meanwhile, we connect our teachers to peer networks and assign mentors to provide resources and support.

By extending our  teaching expertise, we are helping the next generation of passionate teachers propel their careers and pursue DOE employment. In effect, we are giving them the opportunity to impact student learning on a greater level as indispensable members of their school and their community.

Curriculum

Our curriculum is a product of incredible expertise and compassionate understanding. Sequential and comprehensive, it allows students to master lessons before advancing to the next, fostering growth and holistic understanding of increasingly complex concepts. Culturally diverse and flexible, it uses community input to become as inclusive and relevant as possible. And more than plans on a page, it comes to life with a range of benchmark-aligned learning strategies that open the door to diverse applications of information and collaboration.

At ETM, we help students learn in a relatable, enjoyable, and greatly effective way because we understand how to put our students—unique in their needs, ambitions, and
backgrounds—first.

Sustainability

We give schools the infrastructure to build and maintain programs that are harmoniously integrated into their core curriculum and culture, ensuring every student is positively affected. Partnering with principals, we strategically work music into their schedule and budget so that it’s not simply an extracurricular or interim course. Then, we provide everything needed from teaching resources, to an easily applicable and flexible curriculum, to expert music teachers, whom we nurture with ongoing professional development.

By building programs that schools can easily sustain, we are not just providing an instrument of change, but teaching them how to use it, so they can play on and on.

Our Unique Model

Partner with principals to develop a sustainable program in their school
  • Integrate the music program into the school as a core subject
  • Offer ongoing professional development to teachers
  • Equip new music classrooms
Hire qualified music teachers and match them with a partner school
  • Recruit, hire, and employ high-quality music teachers
  • Match teachers with the unique needs of each partner school
Equip teachers with the tools to succeed
  • Connect teachers to professional peer network
  • Provide year-round professional development
  • Assign mentors to provide resources and support
  • Provide teachers with relevant benchmarks to inform curricula design
Institute a sustainable program
  • Partner schools hire their teacher from ETM
  • ETM provides ongoing mentorship and professional development
Provide quality music education to students, no matter their background or circumstances.

Transforming schools with music education

Hear how music education has changed lives

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In Our 2023-2024 Music Classes

Students With Access To High-Quality Music Education
Partner Schools
Grades
PreK -
Cost
To Sponsor A Student For One Year
$

What Others Are Saying

“Without music, I feel a piece of me is missing.”

Student

ETM Partner School

“My child loves the music class she is in because she knows many schools don't have music in their area.”

Parent

ETM Partner School

“What I love about Education Through Music is that they provide the nuts and bolts of a quality music education.”

Donna Anaman

Principal

“Music does help me a lot, and it’s helped me get through some really difficult times.”

Student

ETM Partner School

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