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Mr. Stone's Thought of the Week...
I love this week! Championship week is the best as I get to see our show grow and blossom into it’s finished form.
The students have been working hard and I’m excited for their show this weekend! Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday for the Friends and Family show! The more fans we have, the better we play! Have a great week!
Why Participate in the Instrumental Music Program?
Graduation Rates
- With a Music Program 90.2%
- Without a Music Program 72.9%
- With Music Program Rated “Excellent or Very Good” 90.7%
SAT Scores
On the 2012 SAT, students who participated in music scored ABOVE average.
Reading Above Average
Math Above Average
Writing Above Average
Benefits of Music
Recent Studies Suggest:
- Musically trained children (and adults) show enhanced problem solving, behavior regulation, and social skills
- Music improves cognitive abilities in students more than twice as much as sports, theater, or dance
- Musically trained children show enhanced verbal fluency and information processing speed
- Adults who received music instruction as children have more robust brainstem responses to sound than those who did not, suggesting that music education benefits carry over to adulthood
- Musicians’ brains tend to have a larger corpus callosum, which plays an important role in the communication between the left and right sides of the brain
- Musical training can increase the blood flow in the left hemisphere of the brain, which suggests that the areas responsible for music and language share common brain pathways. Just one half hour of musical training achieved this effect.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
~Aristotle
Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education.
~Yo-Yo Ma
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
~Plato