If music is your interest, then you need to befriend Erick Quintanilla. Or even better, have him as your teacher, which is the case for the lucky music students at Roosevelt High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
For the first time in one educator’s 30 years of service, her school district is rewriting the curriculum for PreK-12 to meet this fundamental and innate nature of humanity, with the integration of traditional academic learning and the arts, allowing the arts to take the lead.
John Churchville, a music teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan, connected with Paul van der Heijden, a music teacher from the Netherlands on Twitter.
Dr. A. Katrise Perera, Superintendent of the Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon, talks about education’s role in advancing the topic of social justice and what we value as human beings. Perera has always been passionate about the subject, and recent events have only increased the intensity of her district’s efforts.