Music SAC

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Music SAC

• Terry Bauer Facilitator, Elementary
• Jeff Nesseth Fine Arts Dept. Chair, HS
• Jim Struyk HS
• Dennis Beiermann HS
• Sonya Rohde MS

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Music Mission Statement

• Students of music in District 301 will become
  life-long learners and creative problem solvers
  who possess a deeper awareness of self and their
  impact on the changing world. Through the
  language of music, students will interpret
  fundamental influences of historical, social, and
  cultural contexts, and evaluate the importance of
  music within the human experience.

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Research Reveals Strong Correlations
Between Quality MUSIC EDUCATION
in School and...

• Academic achievement
• Healthy social development
• Preparation for the 21st century workplace
• Quality of a young persons life

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Research Reveals

• Children taking music lessons improved more over
  the year on several memory skill tests . . .
• . . . than did children not taking music lessons.

Source Takako Fujioka, Bernhard Ross, Ryusuke
Kakigi, Christo Pantev, and Laurel J. Trainor.
Brain, a Journal of Neurology. Oxford University
Press, September 2006.
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High School MUSIC-MAKERS Test Scores
Higher...

• UCLA tracked 25,000 students over ten years with
  U.S. Department of Education data
• Music-making students outperformed non-musical
  peers
• Results same for all socioeconomic groups

Source Edward B. Fiske. "Involvement in the Arts
and Human Development." Champions of Change The
Impact of the Arts on Learning. President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and AEP,
1999.
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MUSIC STUDENTS Score Higher on SATs

• Average 57 points higher in verbal
• Average 41 points higher in math

Source "Profile of SAT and Achievement Test
Takers." The College Board, compiled by Music
Educators National Conference, 2001.
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MUSIC MAKING Develops Students in Many
Ways

• Better math skills
• Better social skills
• More transferable skills
• Development of lifelong skill making music

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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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Survey/Research Results

• Parents and community through the district
  newsletter
• Students Survey
• Survey of Music Programs in the Area
• Visits to exemplary programs in comparable school
  districts

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Community Input

• 96 of those who responded feel music is
  important part of the curriculum
• Even those who do not participate in music are
  supportive of the music curriculum
• 81 interested in implementing an orchestra
  program
• New residents expect programs comparable to their
  previous district
• Survey was in the community newsletter and a
  total of people responded

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Elementary Music Survey

• K-2nd grade students surveys sent home
• 3-5th grade students surveyed in class

Future Music Involvement Survey
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588 Students responded
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Middle School Survey

• 55 of all middle school students stated their
  last music class was 5th grade general music
• 68 of students showed an interest in
  participating in a music ensemble
• The highest interest levels were in the areas of
  guitar, percussion, and general music
• Other areas of interest included band, choir,
  orchestra, and piano

68 of students showed an interest in
particiating in a music ensemble
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High School Survey

• 702 students surveyed at the high school
• Students showed interest in adding the following
  music ensembles
• Beginning Guitar
• Advanced Guitar
• Dance
• Orchestra
• Percussion Ensemble
• Drill Team

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Exemplary Program Review
Each school District contains a band, choir, and
orchestra program.

• Sycamore School District District 427
• Lakewood School District 300
• Student enrollment 750
• Geneva Middle School North District 304
• Student enrollment 750
• Wredling Middle School District 303
• Student enrollment 1000

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• 6th GradeGeneral Music
• 7th Grade World Drumming
• Orchestra 5th-12th Grade
• High School Percussion Ensemble

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Rationale

• How music creates opportunities for success
• Meeting student wants/needs
• Strong Elementary Foundation
• 6-8 General Music Gap
• 6-8th grade
• 15 students in choir and band
• 85 of middle school students do not receive any
  music curriculum
• 9-12th grade
• 39 of high school students involved in music
  curriculum
• 70 of music students have taken at least one
  music class

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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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District 301 Music Department 2007-2008
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Current Staffing

• 3 Elementary General Music
• 1 Middle School Choir
• 2 Middle School Band
• 1 High School Band
• 1 High School Choir
• 1 High School General Music

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Current Staffing 2007-2008
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Projected Staffing Needs
Attract Quality Staff Exemplary programs result
from Highly Qualified Teachers Shared full time
staff is preferable to multiple part time
Staffing 2008-2009 Increase ½ time to full
time Add 2 full time 2009-2010 Add 1 5th-8th band
2010-2011 Add 1 5th-8th orchestra 2011-2012 Juggl
e positions
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Staffing 2008-2009 Increase ½ time to full
time Add 2 full time 2009-2010 Add 1 5th-8th
band 2010-2011 Add 1 5th-8th orchestra 2011-2012
Juggle positions
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Focus on the Future

• 6th Grade General Music (proposed)
• Students will use song, speech, movement and
  instruments to explore and demonstrate irregular
  meters, mixed meters and extended rhythm
  combinations while continuing to explore chordal
  changes and an introduction to modality
• 7th Grade World Music Drumming (proposed)
• Students will apply drumming technique,
  improvisation, and listening while demonstrating
  teamwork, singing, and communication skills in
  playing drumming music of Africa and the
  Caribbean.
• 5th Orchestra (proposed)
• Students will demonstrate fundamental string
  instrument skills as well as listen to music to
  determine basic music components of melody,
  harmony, rhythm and phrasing, and apply basic
  skills of improvisation, reading and writing of
  music.
• 6th Orchestra (proposed)
• Students will demonstrate fundamental string
  instrument skills as well as listen to music to
  determine basic music components of melody,
  harmony, rhythm and phrasing, and enhance skills
  of improvisation, reading and writing of music.
• 7th Orchestra (proposed)
• Students will apply string instrument skills to
  read, perform and improvise music using
  increasingly complex melodies, harmonies, rhythm
  and phrasing. Students will apply active
  listening skills to evaluate the components of
  music.
• 8th Orchestra (proposed)
• Students will apply string instrument skills to
  read, perform and improvise music using
  increasingly complex melodies, harmonies, rhythm
  and phrasing. Students will apply active
  listening skills to evaluate the components of
  music.
• 9th-12th Orchestra (proposed)
• Students will evaluate and perform a wide variety
  of orchestral literature, as well as demonstrate
  a building knowledge of musical concepts and
  fundamental techniques.
• Percussion Ensemble (proposed)
• Students will demonstrate fundamental drumming
  techniques on multiple percussion instruments
  using improvisation, active listening skills, and
  percussion ensemble literature.

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Special Recognition

• Strong Community support for the program and its
  expansion
• Fine Arts Grant through the State Board of
  Education and the Illinois Arts Council
• WWW.SupportMusic.ORG

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Music Enhances

• Reading and Language Development
• Basic reading skills
• Literacy
• Writing
• Mathematics
• Fundamental Cognitive Skills and Capacities
• Motivations to Learn
• Effective Social Behavior
• School Environment