Six hundred students will have access to music education and instruments, allowing them to enrich their lives through music.

Give 3,000 students access to music education

Summary

Teachers in public schools with limited or no music programs receive specialized training and free instruments to give kids lessons on playing and composing in the musical styles they love. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Little Kids Rock operates in schools having no music education or in schools in which the music teacher wishes to rejuvenate the music curriculum. We serve public schools where 50% or more of the students qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program. We awaken the creativity that supports learning and self-discipline in academically, socially and economically at-risk students through music. Students gain a strong sense of accomplishment and self-worth as they develop their musical skills.

Activities

Public school teachers are supplied with musical instruments, equipped with curricula, and trained to use our methods to teach music in their schools. Students learn to play instruments at an accelerated pace, and compose and perform original songs.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £51,602
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £20,823
Total Funding Goal: £72,425

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

LKR puts music education back in public schools so all children have the opportunity to enrich their lives through music. Children who participate in music instruction develop skill-sets that prepare them for higher education and adulthood.

Project Message

“Helping students build self-esteem and creative expression have always presented great challenges to educators. LKR provides a major vehicle. The [behavioral] changes in my students are amazing.”
- Valerie Haskell, Teacher, Lawton Elementary School, San Francisco

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dave Wish,

116 Greenwood Avenue
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
United States
(973) 746-8248
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

Little Kids Rock, Inc.
632 Pompton Ave. Suite 2
Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009
United States
(973) 746-8248
http://www.littlekidsrock.org

Learn more about Little Kids Rock, Inc. and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Children.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 16, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 27, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Our Wish is for No Silent Classrooms

By Gina Sideris - Development Officer, August 16, 2010 12:00 PM

Gene Simmons visits LKR School in East L.A.

This September, more kids than ever before will be returning to silent classrooms because school budget cuts eliminated their music programs. Little Kids Rock is reversing that trend by teaching kids to play contemporary music, how to improvise and how to compose their own music.

Here is a song written by one of our middle school students. Her song is called "Change." I think it illustrates quite powerfully how music has changed her life: www.littlekidsrock.org/change.html

Little Kids Rock will be going back to school with 54,000 low-income students rockin’ in 24 cities nationwide. You and all our friends at Global Giving can help us reach 75,000 kids by the end of 2010.

Also, two exciting new things will help us spread the word and build momentum –

MTV will feature Little Kids Rock on its show “Made” on August 19th at 5 pm (check your local listings). The Little Kids Rock segment will be in the first half hour :)

"Gene Simmons Family Jewels" on A&E. is featuring Gene’s visit to Little Kids Rock students in East LA. The episode, entitled "For The Love of Rock," premieres on August 24th at 9 pm (check your local listings).

Please tune in to see Little Kids Rock on television and help put music back where it belongs -- in our schools!

Thanks, and Keep on Rockin’,

Little Kids Rock

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Student song, "Change"

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Gene Simmons visits LKR School in East L.A. (JPG)

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