No Gifts, Just Music!

In many public schools, the hallways, classrooms, and auditoriums have gone quiet. Music education has become a luxury and thousands of children are growing up with increasingly unequal opportunities to thrive. 

Education Through Music-Colorado is closing this gap by integrating weekly music classes into the core curriculum of under-resourced schools. They hire exceptional teachers to create tailored curricula for each student. They provide music instruments, and organize concerts that engage the community, giving students a platform to showcase their talents. 

They build multi-year sustainable programs that help students’ creativity and growth flourish while inviting families to become involved. The result for students is cognitive development, academic achievement and emotional wellbeing.

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Education Through Music (ETM) is a national network that launched programming more than 30 years ago in New York followed by expansion to Los Angeles and, more recently, Denver. As one of the largest nonprofit providers of comprehensive, direct music education in U.S. schools, ETM has already impacted over 300,000 students nationwide.

Research shows that students who have access to music education from a young age receive substantial long-term benefits. Based on principal, teacher and student responses, the integration of ETM programming in schools fosters teamwork, engagement, and persistence, as well as student growth in oral expression, critical thinking, and autonomy.