Integrate Music Across the Curriculum with Stevie Van Zandt and TeachRock

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by TeachRock.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Launched by Stevie Van Zandt and the Founders Board of Bono, Jackson Browne, Martin Scorsese, and Bruce Springsteen, TeachRock.org provides free, standards-aligned resources that use music to help K-12 students succeed in disciplines like science, math, social studies, language arts, and more.

This edWeb podcast provides an overview of the free TeachRock curriculum, highlighting resources and strategies for elementary school, middle school math, and high school social studies. The TeachRock curriculum embraces music integration as means to foster student engagement and buy-in, and a culturally supportive approach to education that enables all students to see themselves reflected in their studies. Two examples of newly released resources that are featured are:

• Segregation and Integration in Asbury Park, a three-part lesson collection that accompanies the film Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll. Students discover the impact the city of Asbury Park has had upon the history of American popular music, and explore the local conditions that led to the emergence of Stevie Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen, and other artists and musicians.
• Math and the Music Industry, a five-part lesson collection for students to practice math skills within the context of the music industry. Utilizing important artists as case studies, students gain a valuable understanding of how fundamental math is to the industry’s functionality, as well as discovering the many components that comprise the music industry. Whether calculating touring costs, analyzing industry data, or determining fan engagement on social media, math is central to numerous aspects of the music industry.

Listeners hear how teachers have used the free TeachRock materials in their own classrooms, and learn more about all of the resources from the TeachRock team.

Educators receive an overview of music-integration strategies that work with a wide range of students. By the end of the session, viewers are able to:

• Apply music-integration strategies to their classrooms.
• Navigate the free TeachRock resources to support further music and arts integration.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, librarians, administrators, and educators at any level from elementary through high school.

TeachRock
An arts integration curriculum that uses the history of pop music and culture to help engage student

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