It's 2018 and kids in kindergarten are learning letters, numbers, shapes, and how to survive school shootings. Since more than 20 school shootings have taken place in 2018 so far, educators are taking ...
Alyssa Monas sits before a half-dozen toddlers, clutching a steady old friend, the $150 acoustic guitar her mother bought for her on a cable shopping network ages ago. “Good morning, friends,” Monas ...
A trending AI song went viral, but in my classroom, it did something even more powerful: it unlocked student voice. When teachers discuss AI in education, the conversation often focuses on risk: ...
As California schools ramp up arts education, they may need 15,000 new teachers who are passionate about both the arts and teaching the next generation. One person with both those passions is ...
It seems that our species has loved music for ages. We've found proto-instruments such as conch shells, the first wind instruments used by our ancestors. We like to hear melodies, shake our hips to ...