Portfolio Showcase: Morrison Elementary School
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Overview
When the Music Center/Morrison Elementary School partnership first began their work under the guidance of the Music-in-Education National Consortium’s Learning Laboratory School Network, the initial interest was to investigate connections between music and literacy. But an understanding of even the semantics of the inquiry would need to evolve. What began as an investigation of “music and literacy” shifted to “connections between music literacy and language literacy” and ultimately arrived at the more clearly expressed intention: How can teaching be structured to reveal explicit connections between the two different disciplines of music and language arts, wherein literacy in one discipline leverages literacy in the other, and vice versa?