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All (Ascend Learning : (What (a network of seven charter schools in…
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Ascend Learning :
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What
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emphasize the arts education and they serves 2,800 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Ninety-eight percent of students are black or Hispanic and more than 80 percent of them receive free or reduced-price lunch, an indicator of poverty.
Goals
equip students with the broad capacities that can take them anywhere in life, whatever they want to do and whatever a changing world brings them.
the ability to separate fact from opinion, to think rationally, and to have an aesthetic sensitivity.
Business philosophy
NOT relied on private fundraising to operate -> he wants to prove that Ascend’s practices are possible to replicate with the same money all public schools receive.
How
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integrating the arts and close reading into every class and subject, with each grade focusing on a particular theme.
Feversham
school environment
outside the school
Bradford Moor, is one of the city’s most deprived and densely populated neighbourhoods
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Population composition
99% of its 510 children speak English as an additional language, and half arrive at school unable to speak a word of English
what
embed music, drama and art into every part of the school day, with up to six hours of music a week for every child
Implementation results
it is rated “good” by Ofsted and is in the top 10% nationally for pupil progress in reading, writing and maths
The school’s attendance has increased to 98%, as the amount of music taught to each pupil has risen.
Method of implementation
Every child will get at least two hours of music a week. As a bare minimum, each child gets a 30-minute music lesson, a half-hour follow-up lesson, plus a one-hour music assembly with a guest musician and group singing.
The school bases its method on the Kodály approach, which involves teaching children to learn, subconsciously at first, through playing musical games
Music and brain
Listening to music has short-term effects on brain physiology and emotion, making music appears to have lasting effects on both brain structure and brain function
Musicians’ brains have increased grey matter and tend to have a larger corpus callosum, which plays an important role in the communication between the left and right sides of the brain.
positive effect on brain
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Auditory working memory is strengthened by music -> you have to be able to remember the words you just read to understand what comes next
Musicians are also better able to hear speech amidst other noise, a useful skill for children who are trying to attend to what a teacher is saying in a noisy classroom.
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