Exceptional Learners Deserve Music, Too!

Dear Friends of Extraordinary Children,

Thank you so much for showing your continued care by supporting GITC's work making music accessible to ALL learners, adaptive music is catching on!. But adapting instruments and creating new ways to play requires advocacy and demonstration as well as training to create gradual change. This weekend we are holding our first in-person training all day Saturday for special educators and home hospital teachers and your gifts are helping us accomplish this big effort!

We’re sending our heartfelt thanks to each of you who is supporting us and those we train to bring musical learning to students in Home Hospital and Transitional Support environments and moderate/severe special education classrooms, many whom have physical vulberabilities. 

Your donation is empowering GITC to make a critical difference by providing us the opportunity to offer several new opportunities for these fragile students! This summer your support helped a lot.

Because of you, this was a time of musical engagement and connection for students learning from hospitals and homes, as well as students with physical disabilities who were able to join our in person student Strummers Clubs in San Diego. The programs we launched served students with life-altering medical conditions as well as students who have been removed from their homes by Child Protective Services. In online groups, the students received instruction and support to create and experience musical sounds, and play instruments in their own ways, Their students will soon be experiencing the health benefits of music through playing rhythms that regulate their breathing and calm their heart rate, and with melodies and harmonies that reduce Cortisol (the “stress hormone”) and relax their bodies.

Teachers in the program shared that " hard to reach" kids need music as much as traditional medicine because it reaches beyond boundaries and limiting expectations. Integrating music helped increase their own motivation as well. Thank you for giving so many of these amazing teachers a new way to make a powerful difference for their students this fall.

We are so grateful for your continued gifts. They empower us to keep going with this groundbreaking work so teachers can learn to bring about the changes they want to see in education by making music a part of the learning and healing, starting in their own classrooms. 

With immense appreciation,

Jess and Gail

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