Embodied Learning
EDITORIAL
A Space to Be: What One Classroom Taught Me about Art, Listening, and Inclusion
Giovanni Acquilino, 2025 Cohort Member, Global Leaders Institute
This was a Mus-e session at a public primary school in Genova, Italy, in a room filled with light, nervous energy and about 20 children in motion. Some moved eagerly. Some hung back. Some followed Olivia Giovannini, the teaching artist leading the session. Others wandered in their own rhythm. Throughout it all, something subtle was happening: no one was being excluded.
The El Sistema USA 2025 West Coast Regional Gathering
Patrick Scafidi, Executive Editor, The Ensemble
At events like these, it’s easy to think about the word “community” as the people in the room. But El Sistema USA’s nifty trick was to upend that idea. Rather than celebrate our professional community—the connections we form with colleagues—the ESUSA leadership team explored the ties that bind us to larger, more diverse communities—of families, of activists, of scientists, of lawmakers, and of the folks that lawmakers tend to ignore.
