+ + + The Record visits Harmony Stockton - Front page article on August 30, 2011 -- Read all about it! Click here for online article and video + + + |
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"Twenty years of studies demonstrate the benefits of instrumental instruction for enhancing life skills for young students. If these benefits are a by-product of learning the instrument, how strong might the benefit be when life skills are the focus of the musical instruction?"  Harmony Stockton students perform at Back-to-School Night for a full house of families, showing discipline with focus and teamwork after just 2-1/2 weeks! The cereal- box violins help develop coordination toward earning their real instruments, provided by donations to the Stockton Symphony. Instructors - Choral & General Music: ~ Sarah Downs, Lead Instructor ~ Susan Haddorff, Instructor ~ Stephen Coss, Tutor & Assistant Instructors - Violin: ~ Luana Hernandez, Lead Instructor ~ Eleanor Tatton-Nelson, Instructor ~ Erik Alvarez Urbina, Instructor & Tutor ~ Maribel Alvarez-Munoz, Tutor & Assistant ~ Lydia Cooley, substitute Harmony Stockton Director: RANDY FISHER Phone: 209.444.2210 Tomorrow Project Admin. (Univ. of the Pacific): NANCY SHAW  MAJOR GIFTS:
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The Program: 40 students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade, five days a week from 2:05 to 6:00.The Schedule: An Academic Hour of tutoring is followed by two music
classes, one for violin instruction, the other for choral and general
music (including recorder, rhythm buckets and movement).
The Curriculum: Lead Instructors for Violin and Choral/General Music coordinate planning for musical progress and life skill development. Enrollment and academic tutoring are accomplished in collaboration with STEP Up, Stockton Unified School District's after-school enrichment program at all district schools.The Partnership: - United Way of San Joaquin County has committed five years of seed funding to inspire a strengthening of annual steps toward independence and long-term demonstration of the value of Harmony Stockton for the academic progress of participating students.- The Stockton Symphony manages Harmony Stockton and raises half the remaining funds needed to sustain it from private donations and foundation grants.MAJOR GIFTS: Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern California, the Teichert Foundation, the Charles Alfred Bowers Memorial Fund- Harmony Stockton is a Tomorrow Project Academy of the University of the Pacific. Three University departments assist development of the program: Pacific Conservatory, the Dept. of Music Education and the Benerd School of Education.MAJOR GIFTS: Wells Fargo, the Community Foundation of San Joaquin
 The Launch: Harmony Stockton began Aug. 1, 2011, following a competitive selection process among Stockton elementary schools followed by site visits. Parents of 39 fourth- and fifth-grade students responded to recruitment the first week of school. A second class of 20 students will begin January 3, 2012. The program will expand to additional grade levels in August, 2012.
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