EdVestors recently announced the finalists presenting at their 12th Annual Urban Education Investment Showcase. The Showcase is an opportunity for donors – whether individuals, giving circles, or foundations – to select their own grantees from a pool of pre-vetted, high-quality…
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Call for Music Therapist/Music Teaching Artist
VSA Massachusetts’ COOL Schools seeks a music teaching artist/music therapist to lead a music program for students with significant disabilities ages 5 – 21. The program will run on Fridays from 11:30 am – 2:30 pm for 20 weeks from…
Harmony and Healing – Berklee College of Music
A student-driven event hosted by the Berklee Music Therapy Department on the evening of February 27, 2014 to bring students from different schools together to share their varied approaches to music and healing An opportunity to learn from each other…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Liz Buchanan
My aim is to provide students with an exciting, meaningful and memorable learning experience through singing, movement and other musical activities. I believe that music is the best way to teach certain pre-reading skills such as phonological awareness. Songs also…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Kathleen McNamara
My creative endeavors as an art teacher provide a visual arts based approach to general education that helps students build connections to academics and explore materials to encourage their uninhibited imaginations. I believe students should feel inspiration, passion and discovery…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Sarah Sharp
My work as a teaching visual artist in a school setting is influential to all students. I aim to teach students the basics of art in the world around them as well as teaching students problem solving skills and creative…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Wilhelmina Peragine
As a teaching artist, I aim to help young people develop a greater sense of their own agency, an increased ability to think from multiple perspectives and a flourishing love of learning. I believe that integrating visual arts learning into…