Education

Teaching Through Music

Keeping Score Education offers teachers at all levels opportunities to learn about classical music and its connections to the core curriculum, and resources and lesson plans to help teachers integrate music into their classrooms. The unique qualities of classical music—its ability to express the grandest ideas as well as the most subtle emotions—offer teachers a powerful tool with which to enhance student learning throughout the curriculum.

Currently Keeping Score Education is partnering with school districts in Fresno, Sonoma and Santa Clara Counties in California; in Flagstaff, Arizona; and with the Oklahoma A+ Schools to provide intensive teacher training. Beginning with a week-long Summer Institute at Davies Symphony Hall, teachers in the Professional Development program work with a variety of arts educators and orchestral musicians to design and implement integrated lesson plans.

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Keeping Score in the Classroom

Student Work Example - Beethoven Watercolor Find great lesson plans with connections to core subjects including Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Sciences, Visual Arts and ESL. View student work from Keeping Score classrooms. Hear how expert teachers have used Keeping Score in their teaching.

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Resources for Educators

Keeping Score Teacher Showcase Find more ideas, connections, and resources to help you bring music into your classroom. Ask a Mentor articles explore specific content and methodology questions from real classroom teachers.

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Special Thanks

Keeping Score Education is a collaborative effort between the San Francisco Symphony and our school and community partners:

“Our Keeping Score teachers continue to amaze us – and represent some of our best advocates for this program. They continue to want more training and professional development and remind us daily of the success and results they are seeing in the classroom with their students. Keeping Score is a model for not only teaching classical music, but more importantly, an avenue for teaching the whole child.”

-Larry Powell, Superintendent
Fresno County Office of Education

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