MIENC Music Learning Leadership Institute
2008-2009 Team Certificate Program

In the winter and spring of 2008, the MIENC sponsored four Music Learning Leadership Seminars to LLSN site leaders interested in development a curriculum for scale out dissemination for deepening the work of MIENC Learning Laboratory Schools and for creating new centers for MIENC practices. As a result of this work in Los Angeles (Music Center), Minneapolis (University of Minnesota), Baltimore (Arts Education in Maryland Schools), and Boston (New England Conservatory), the first Music Learning Leadership Certificate Program is taking place in the summer and following year in 2008-2009.

The seminar case studies presented and vetted this past year are organized here in four topics: 1) music learning as basic to human development, 2) music plus music integration curriculum and assessment practices, 3) integration of other subjects into music teaching and learning, and 4) conceptual frameworks and underlying practices of music learning leadership for whole school change.

Read more:

• Carey, H. and Scripp, L. A Portfolio Portrait of Julia Carey: A Young Composer as an Emerging Artist-Teacher-Scholar. Journal for Music-in-Education, 2007.
• Case Studies:
  • Scripp, L. The Conservatory Lab Charter School—NEC Research Center ‘Learning Through Music’ Partnership (1999-2003). Journal for Music-in-Education, 2007.
  • The Evolution of the Learning Through Music Consulting Group—Ramsey IFAC Learning Laboratory School Partnership. Journal for Music-in-Education, 2007.
  • Scripp, L., Rabkin, N., and Reider, D. New Ventures in Integrated Teaching and Learning: Working Toward a Model of General Symbolic Literacy Based on the Growing Understanding of Fundamental Literacy Skills Shared Between Music and Language in Grades K-2. Journal for Music-in-Education, 2007.

Read more:

• Dik, D. and Picano, J. The Mission and The Work of Creating Original Opera in Schools. Journal for Learning Through Music, 2003. With ensuing discussion ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The Real Work of Opera . Journal for Learning Through Music, 2003.
• Rinehart, C. Creating Opera in Schools: Music as a Model for Integrated Learning. Journal for Music-in-Education, 2007.