Don is presenting Poverty, Barriers, Music & Success: Understanding and Helping Low-Income Music Students Succeed at the 2022 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic

Don is presenting Poverty, Barriers, Music and Success: Understanding and Helping Low-Income Music Students Succeed at the 2023 Illinois Music Education Conference.

Check out ILMEA’s website for more information about the conference.

Available for graduate credit and professional development through MECA/VanderCook College of Music.

This course will help teachers to understand where low-income and high-needs students are coming from, present strategies and ideas to help with teaching, supporting, and advocating for students from low-income and high need situations, and will help instructors develop plans to locate financial resources for their students and programs. Every student deserves a good teacher and a fair chance at success, and band, orchestra, choir and general music can be offered to all students.

This course runs periodically through VanderCook College of Music’s MECA Program. Click the link below to see availability.