My Students

Plato said, "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." I want to expose my students to as many music experiences as possible in our Band classes so that they will believe what Plato said.

We have a diverse group of middle school students from many different backgrounds.

Our Title I school is located in a small, rural county in SC. My students are very excited about music and love to listen to, experience and create music. Our school and administration value the creative and performing arts and feel that students excel through the arts.

My Project

The music library at our school is pretty bare. For this reason, we tend to play the same concert songs over and over and over again. Not only is this not exciting to the students, it is a lot harder to expand their knowledge of music and different cultures through our concert performances. With Whirlwind, Prelude and Firestorm, and other music resources, we will be able to diversify our concerts and I will be able to introduce new music concepts to my students. There are so many concepts that can be taught through concert music and adding these resources to our music library will help my students gain so much knowledge!

Livening up our music library will change my students' musical lives by giving them more diverse performance opportunities for our concerts.

My students are hungry for new music and love learning new concepts through concert music. This new music will fulfill that need and desire for my students.