Fairview Violins

First-graders at Fairview Elementary in Bloomington, Indiana have been taking violin lessons three times a week throughout the school year through an outreach program of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The Fairview Violins perform on the stage of Indiana University's Musical Arts Center during the Jacob's School of Music's annual Pre-College Ballet program.




Fairview Elementary serves low-income Bloomington neighborhoods; approximately 90 percent of its students qualify by family income for free or reduced-price school lunches.

The Fairview Violin Project is supervised by Brenda Brenner, an associate professor of music education at the Jacobs School. Brenner built the curriculum for the class by looking at the math and language arts standards for Indiana in first grade and figuring out how the violin class can meet those standards.

In order to document the positive effects of the classes researchers will look at whether:
- Kids are more likely to attend school when they have violin class
- Parental involvement in school and attitude toward school improves
- WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) cognitive test scores taken at the beginning and end of the year (compared with a control group from Bloomington's Highland Park Elementary School) improve
- Participation in the program has an effect on cognitive development.

The Jacobs School hopes to continue violin classes for all interested Fairview students throughout their education at the school. The program is entirely funded by anonymous donors including donations of 65 violins the music school received worth over $15,000.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Music Education
• Violins
• Indiana University
• Jacobs School of Music
• Fairview Bloomington
• Indiana
• Duane Busick
• Brenda Brenner

[Mhylee07]

amazing

[sjogirl]

Good for all these wonderful, talented children. Nice job, kids......and teachers :)

[hovernator]

Very nice!! Great job guys and girls.

[aerials73]

thanks so much for putting this up, our daughter is in the fron right, Sierra, and ive been trying to upload to my pc but no go.. anyhow.. the kids were Wonderful and so are you for getting it up on here.. Standing Ovation for Gairviews kids!! and the Teachers!!