Patrick Scafidi

Here is an unusual book that presents teaching as an art practice: Teacher as Artist-in-Residence: The most radical form of expression to ever exist.

Across the world, the music for social change field keeps growing.

Tutti Passeurs D’Arts, a program dedicated to music education for social progress in France, is presenting a UNESCO-sponsored concert in Paris on January 16 to honor Maestro José Antonio Abreu.

We’re hiring a Content Editor! If you’re knowledgeable about the music for social change field, passionate about its growth and impact, and eager to join a collaborative editorial team working to help build a better world for the next generation—we want to hear from you.

The MONAT Gratitude Grants Program supports education programs in the areas of the arts, music, entrepreneurship, and athletics in communities around the world where MONAT does business, which include the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Ireland, Spain, Poland, and Lithuania.

The Pollination Project supports initiatives that support social change agents who seek to spread compassion in their communities and in the world for the benefit of all.

We often share updates from Gothenburg, Sweden’s Dream Orchestra, founded and led by Ron Davis Álvarez. The orchestra has been recognized many times for its work with young people who have fled their home countries. In this eight-minute documentary, To Those Who Believe in Dreams, Director Erik Eger shares the orchestra’s history and growth as an integrating multicultural orchestra community that now represents all of Swedish society.

“Musical literacy”—do you have some thoughts about what that means? Would you like to be in exchange with colleagues from other art forms about artistic literacies?

Applications are now open for Carnegie Hall’s PlayUSA program, which supports community partner organizations across the U.S. that offer equitable instrumental music education programs to K–12 students, including those whose opportunities to engage in instrumental music instruction are limited by socioeconomic, geographic, or other factors.

Researchers and senior practitioners in our field agree: intrinsic motivation (when the learner is driven by their own yearning to get better and discover more) is the single most important factor in the success of our students. This article in ASCD Magazine identifies six ways, affirmed by research, to boost intrinsic motivation in learners—and in us as teachers, too.