OUR
OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Suzuki-Orff’s outreach activities help lift barriers of race, economics, and literacy as families share in the universal language of music. These programs reach nearly 2,000 young people each week in a number of public & private schools, schools for children with special needs, and community outreach programs. Please call us or contact our Outreach Coordinator if you would like to set up a program at your school. |
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MUSIC
LEAPS (a pre-school program)
Music LEAPS (Learning Explorers At the Public Schools) builds a foundation of experiences that facilitates self-expression and creativity for preschool children through rhythms, songs, and movement. It also draws on creative repetition and progressive, skill-developing activities to facilitate cognitive learning and children’s ability to anticipate and master classroom activities. | |
CLAP,
SING AND READ® (for K-2 students)
Clap, Sing and READ!® (CSR) harnesses the power of music to advance literacy for students in kindergarten through second grade. Parents are encouraged to attend weekly classroom lessons throughout the school year with their children. Together they learn the rhythm of words through music and build vocabulary through creative repetition. CSR employs multiple senses in reading activities, making the curriculum effective for all children regardless of their learning style -- visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. The majority of children who have participated in CSR for three years are now reading at or above grade level. At the conclusion of each six-week CSR unit (six units total), every child receives a copy of that unit's featured story for his/her home book collection. | |
PROJECT
IMAGE (sequential music instruction for grades 1-8)
Project IMAGE (Integrating Music/Movement Arts with General Education) is a sequential Orff-based music and movement program that serves grades 1-7. It surpasses traditional performances and short-term residencies by providing ongoing arts education and skill acquisition, rather than simply a fleeting taste for the arts. We also offer expansion classes in choir and recorder instruction for schools seeking more advanced musicianship opportunities. Further, Suzuki-Orff's Project IMAGE music specialists collaborate with partner schools 15 - 20 hours during the year to integrate our program with the academic curricula. Our support empowers classroom teachers to create music activities themselves and to use music as a tool to more actively and consistently engage students, particularly those who are more responsive to the arts | |
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS
We include classroom teachers as an integral part of our outreach program delivery. Each classroom teacher is actively engaged by our music specialist in lesson participation and collaboration every week -- helping them acquire new methods and tools to use music learning to meet local/state teaching mandates and to enhance their curricula. | |