music teaching
Suggested Reading: The Heart of Teacher-Student Relationship
The student-teacher relationship in classical music conservatories is unlike almost any other.
GUEST PERSPECTIVE
When Art and Music Create a Shared Listening Space
Giovanni Acquilino, 2025 Cohort Member, Global Leaders Institute
What does visual art have to do with listening?
It’s an unusual question—but one that’s well worth exploring, as I discovered recently when I attended Sguardi Paralleli (Parallel Glances) – Art Therapy and Autism: Art as Language, an exhibition held in Alassio, Italy and curated by art therapist Carla Paura.
EDITORIAL
Universal Design for Learning: A Natural Fit for El Sistema-inspired Programs
Graciela Briceno, teaching artist and Foreign Service Officer, Accra, Ghana
Imagine that you are walking up a staircase that leads to a school entrance, and you notice a sign that says, “ramp located at the back door.” Okay, so the sign and the ramp make the building technically accessible—but a person who can’t use stairs has to go all the way to the back of the building, locate the ramp, and hope that the door is open.
What if, instead of a staircase in front and a separate ramp in back, the architect had created a walkway that incorporates stairs and ramps all in one place?
This is the foundational metaphor of Universal Design for Learning, or UDL.
