| The Music-in-Education Dissemination Project |
| Grant: | P116B070245 |
| Start: | 10/01/2007 |
| End: | 09/30/2010 |
| Funding: | $ 642,843 |
| Comprehensive Program | |
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The Music-in-Education National Consortium (MIENC), led by New England Conservatory’s Center for Music-in-Education in Massachusetts and the New York-based Metropolitan Opera Guild, is expanding its music education reform efforts by broadening its Learning Laboratory School Network (LLSN), formed in 2005 to develop "scale-out dissemination” initiatives at the district, cross-district, and state policy level. The LLSN scale-out project is now being guided primarily by representatives in the field of music and education in three institutions of higher education: the New England Conservatory, the University of Minnesota, and New York’s Mannes College of Music; by five partnering arts learning organizations: the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Music Center of Los Angeles, San Francisco’s Music in Schools Today, Atlanta’s ArtsNOW, and the Minnesota-based Learning Through Music Consulting Group; and by 11 Learning Laboratory Schools Leadership and Dissemination Schools in nine states. Through the MIENC's Learning Laboratory School Network, we have found that schools committed to developing strategies and policies for the dissemination of music’s essential role in the education of the whole child as a strategic priority for comprehensive school improvement now benefit from MIENC “music plus music integration” approaches to learning that improve teacher performance and student achievement in academic and arts learning. This project is now addressing this need through the implementation of the following innovative approaches to professional development and education reform: 1) supporting a network of musicians, music teachers, and their classroom teacher collaborators who are trained to serve as change agents in public schools through in-service action research-based MIENC Certificate Programs; 2) teaching pre-professional music majors to document and assess diverse forms of music and music-integrated learning in schools through the MIENC Guided Internship Programs; and 3) providing professional mentors for teachers and teaching artist partners, professional development exchange conferences, digital portfolio systems, and guided research methods and publications through the establishment and coordination of a MIENC Guided Practices Program. MIENC is now applying these support systems in a growing network of school districts and state agencies. The inaugural Music Learning Leadership Institute took place in July 2008 in Maryland, and initiated the first stages of a certificate-based, two-year program that includes the development of MIENC-approved, research-based dissemination plans that will lead to establishment of practices resulting in digital portfolios, research, and program evaluation reports for each school by Fall 2010.
ONLINE REFERENCES: 2009 MIENC Sample PPT Research presentation LTMCG-UofM Music Intervention Research & Evaluation Center for Music-in-Education at New England Conservatory Journal for Music-In-Education Learning Laboratory School Network Online Digital Portfolio System MIENC Learning Laboratory School Network Online Digital Portfolio System Music-In-Education National Consortium website Sample 2009 MIENC LLSN MCLA-Morrison School Research & Evaluation Report |
Lawrence Scripp
New England Conservatory |
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