ETM-LA INC

Education Through Music-Los Angeles forms long-term partnerships with low-income area elementary, middle, and K-8 schools that lack sufficient resources for school-wide music education. We work with each principal to design an individualized program for each partner school with the following goals: support student learning in the arts and other academic areas; and build capacity among school and community members to sustain programs.

To accomplish these goals, Education Through Music-Los Angeles' activities focus on the following: 1) Music instruction for every child that follows a skills-based, comprehensive, and sequential curriculum which supports cognitive thinking skills and content in other academic areas, 2) Ongoing, customized professional development services including training and mentoring for music teachers, professional development for classroom teachers, and management guidance and leadership training for principals; 3) Ongoing assessment and evaluation; and 4) Outreach to parents and community.

In 2020-2021, the music program has expanded to reach 46 partner schools and approximately 19,000 children across Los Angeles County.

Education Through Music-Los Angeles has accomplished the following:
➢ In-School Music Education that provides weekly, yearlong high-quality music instruction for every child through a proven curriculum taught by talented music teachers, in 26 schools across Los Angeles County.
➢ Year-round Professional Development that includes (1) coaching and mentoring music teachers through workshops, and (2) training academic teachers on how to support interdisciplinary learning.
➢ Leadership training for principals on how to manage sustainable music programs.
➢ Increased parent and community engagement in the arts and education.
Through these objectives, we have accomplished the following goals:
➢ Improved student performance in and attitudes towards both the arts and school.
➢ Increased music teachers' effectiveness at teaching and improved their abilities to integrate the arts with the core curriculum.
➢ Improved students' performance across the curriculum, including math and reading skills.
➢ Increased school and community understanding of and support for arts education, and school efforts toward sustaining arts and music programs.
As a distinguished arts provider and leader for the Burbank, Compton, LA, and Pasadena Unified School Districts as well as parochial schools, ETM-LA provides music education for every child in its partnership schools. We have been invited to share our music education model and best practices with the USC Thornton School of Music, LA Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA), and LA's Best of the Mayor's Office. Recent accomplishments include:
➢ September 2017: ETM-LA began music instruction at 26 partner schools across Los Angeles County.
➢ March 14-15, 2018: Approximately 600 top students from partner schools perform in concert at the 8th Annual Music Unites the World Festival at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, California.

Education Through Music-LA utilizes various tools such as year-end surveys, assessments, student essays, interviews, and meetings to measure the progress of our in-school music education program.