MIENC Music Learning Leadership Institute
2008-2009 Team Certificate Program

The Orientation Document documents are archived here to provide an insight into the historical underpinnings of Music Learning Leadership and access to the underlying conceptual frameworks for the creation of the MIENC and guiding principles for its Learning Laboratory School Network projects since 2003.

In many cases these documents are embedded in articles published in NEC-MIENC Journal I, II, III over the past eight years.

Ten Tools for Teaching for Transfer

I. ORIENTATION FRAMEWORK

what is music learning leadership?

• Create and manage school change through music: Music Learning Leadership is a dynamic view of how to create and manage sustainable, cost effective music-in-education practices that contribute to positive change and transformation of whole-school culture and performance for the benefit of optimizing every child’s learning capacity.
• Music Learning Leadership emerged out of the principles and practices of the Music-in-Education National Consortium (MIENC) supported by the Federal Department of Education: The frameworks for school change emerging out of the MIENC’s Learning Laboratory School Network are now regarded as a valid and cost effective strategic priority for creating and sustaining comprehensive arts programs in schools, starting with the establishment of ‘music plus music integration’ laboratory schools in partnerships among representatives from arts learning organizations, higher education schools of music, and primarily urban public schools.