Karen Cueva
Centering Culturally Responsive Professional Development in a Year of Unknowns
Karen Cueva, Assistant Director, Learning and Engagement Programs, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
In a chronically underfunded field where part-time employment is the norm, investing in professional development often feels like a bold aspiration—an item near the bottom of a strategic plan, rather than a lived reality for teaching artists. Carnegie Hall’s PlayUSA is an attempt to address that void.
Student Empowerment in Music Learning
Karen Cueva, Manager of Learning & Engagement Programs at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
Students as leaders. Increasingly, teaching artists in U.S. Sistema-inspired programs have been thinking about this important idea.
In February, a group of music teaching artists and program directors came together for a PlayUSA workshop on “Empowering Students to Lead.” PlayUSA is an initiative of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute that supports quality instrumental instruction reaching young musicians in local communities across the country. The workshop brought together faculty from 13 PlayUSA grantee organizations, including Sistema programs and other instrumental music education organizations, to focus on student agency in musical learning.
