Los Angeles Partner School Programs

Education Through Music - Los Angeles forms long-term partnerships with inner-city elementary 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 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 learning in a range of academic areas
• Professional development to improve instruction and 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.

School Partnerships 2009-2010

ETM-LA hires teaching artists 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. Current disciplines we provide include violin, cello, guitar, chorus, general music, and recorder.

We work with a variety of collaborating organizations to provide enrichment opportunities to students.  We provide ongoing training and mentoring to teaching artists 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.