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Tanner started his freshman year playing in the second best orchestra of three in his school. Here, he excelled musically and made new friends with upperclassmen. By January, one of Tanner’s older friends had convinced him to join choir, so he decided to audition for the upcoming year. As a sophomore, Tanner sang bass in the top choir, even though he did not have any prior singing experience. The same year, he also auditioned into Symphonic Orchestra, the top orchestra of his school. While he was in both the top orchestra and choir, he started student conducting for the lower orchestras and choirs. By senior year, Tanner’s schedule was almost completely filled with music classes. Consequently, Tanner grew extremely close to his high school ensemble directors. It got the point where he could casually call his Symphonic Orchestra director “mom.” This inspired Tanner to make it a goal for himself to form strong relationships with his future students. Through his experiences conducting his high school orchestras, and choir, Tanner found that he really enjoyed teaching music and decided to study music

Budgets and Planning. To begin with, the program, like the organization, fosters an open and collaborative environment for the process to take place. In this regard, it is, therefore, impossible for any one space or environment to be able to accommodate every conceivable project or application that is “thought up”. Therefore, certain perimeters and guidelines need to be established to assess costs with the program and help determine a course of action in future planning. As we are discussing costs, we assume there is a

3. What are the objectives (in measurable terms) of the project? Is the goal achievable in

Please describe the program or project for which you are seeking funding describe: 2000 characters – 1977 characters

A high school music teacher and band director, Dwight Asberry provides valuable instruction in both specific instrument training and general music appreciation and history. He also excels as a composer and arranger. Over the course of his career in music education, Dwight Asberry has directed a number of college, high school, middle school, and youth organization performance ensembles including symphonic and concert band, jazz band, pep band, marching band, drum line, wind ensemble, string orchestra, and choir.

Across the United States many elementary school music classrooms are filled with simple and popular tunes such as Hot Cross Buns and The Ode to Joy, played on the recorder, while high school students may be playing collegiate or professional pieces of music such as Armenian Dances and Carmen Suites. I have been very fortunate to have gone on the journey of progressing through different music education programs within Fairfax County Public Schools. If I was never exposed to music while in elementary school I might not have ever found one of my greatest passions or been able to create such fond and unforgettable memories. While music education programs across the country appear large and strong, many schools are beginning to experience budget reductions. As a result, music is often the very first component of a school 's curriculum or programs to be cut or significantly reduced, but I believe this is not the right course of action. It is important to preserve and promote music education in public schools because of the proven cognitive, character,and academic benefits for students.

“You witnessed tonight a number of students comed down here and be recognized as musicians [at the elementary level] at the state level which is huge. You see their parents with them,” Peter Calvo, the president of the Board of Education, said.

McDowell Waldorf School was originated in 1995 by following the Waldorf philosophy which was introduced by a philosopher named Rudolf Steiner. The school was initiated as a result of the strong belief of Waldorf education in children’s holistic development and the dream of Michelle McDowell, who was the original founder of opening the school for the middle class working community in Fremont area.

As mentioned above, the number of funds should be $75,000 at the beginning, and numbers of funding methods could be utilised to obtain the funds, including funding from governments, crowd

Currently, I am an elementary general music educator and choral director at Wilcox Elementary. I have been teaching at Wilcox Elementary for two years. Through my experience I have been able to enhance my classroom management, communicate effectively with parents and administrators, and create engaging classroom lessons. One area I have found to be fundamental in student growth at the elementary

The literature reviewed in this chapter gives a description and synthesis in the areas central to this study: how learning to play an instrument transfers to cognitive development in other subjects, the progression for learning to play a musical instrument, and methods that have been successful in assessing student’s mastery in learning to play an instrument. At the conclusion of this chapter will be brief overview of the methodology that will be used by the researcher in their research.

Glenn Holland was a professional musician and composer. To became a music teacher in high school was easier to earn money to support his musical creation. Meanwhile, he had more free time with his wife-Iris and composed his orchestral music. His music students based differential gave him a disappointed time when he went to school on the first day. Mr. Holland thought the responsibility of a teacher was teaching knowledge, but the school’s principal- Helen Jacobs told

In fact, despite arts education having been ranked 19 in importance, “Americans -- including school administrators and general education teachers -- have expressed overwhelming support for music in public education,” (qtd in Abril & Gault 2008). Marci Major designed a study based on a school district in Lekbery, Michigan, to examine how the school administration decide on cutting or keeping music. Major’s study has proven that support does not only involve finances. The administrators from that district explain that “value included having an appreciation for music, supporting it financially, personally attending events, prioritizing it in scheduling, and finally, sustaining it over time” (Major 3). One of these administrators state: "The buck stops here… If we didn't have the same type of commitment to support the teachers and the community, we could easily be the demise of that program,” (Major 3). Clearly the opinion of the school faculty has great influence over a music program’s success, and as such they must be shown the advantage of supporting a music program. Interviewees from Major’s report claimed that principals and administrators play the largest role on value, as they “are very good speakers and promoters of the [music] program because of having the face time with actual parents and other colleagues” and are seen as leaders, (Major 3). These

Ok so the beginning of my eight grade year at Northwood’s Park Middle in Jacksonville. The student board got the whole class together for a trip to Kings Dominion in Deswell, Virginia. We did a bunch of fundraisers because aint nobody have the money like hat. But anyway we had just got a new principle and she wanted everybody to bond so we planned this trip. I remember seeing the big busses you know with the TV’s and bathroom. It was off the chain; that was the first time any of us was about to ride in one and everybody was ready. Before leaving Jacksonville we stopped to Wal-Mart so everybody could rack up on what they wanted so we wouldn’t have to stop but for gas or something.

As the details of our proposal clearly demonstrate, this organization is more than capable of meeting the quality expectations and other standards laid out in the request for proposals and the accompanying documentation related to the project at hand. The technical documents enclosed in this proposal satisfy all of the specific listed needs of the contract, with included (and fully optional) recommendations for added benefits or improvements in areas where we believe we would be able to exceed the listed specifications for the project. The expertise of the personnel that our organization will be able to bring to the completion of this project is also substantial, and is a major component of our ability to submit this proposal with full confidence that the project needs are understood can be met in the manner described herein and with the timeline and budget figures as presented. Our past performance is an indicator of our ability to deliver projects as promised in initial proposals and should be taken into account when other seemingly more attractive proposals are offered by less proven or perhaps less trustworthy organizations.