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IMMERSIVE MUSIC CHALLENGE

The Immersive Music Challenge (IMC) is an effort to generate awareness of the positive impacts of immersive music-based mentoring and support nonprofit organizations that provide free or affordable music instruction and mentoring within high-needs communities. This program includes the IMC Implementation Study and the IMC Ecosystem.

   

IMC Implementation Study

The IMC Implementation Study seeks to illustrate the impact immersive music instruction and music-based mentoring can have on the academic performance and social-emotional wellbeing of children from low-income communities. The D'Addario Foundation has engaged three Implementation Partners across five school districts and has enlisted an outside evaluation team to conduct this five-year study.

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The People's Music School

Site: Hibbard Elementary School – Chicago, IL

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Neighborhood Music School

  • Site 1: Puente Learning Center Charter Elementary – Los Angeles, CA 
  • Site 2: Little Lake City School District – Santa Fe Springs and Norwalk, CA  
  • Site 3: Long Beach Unified School District – Long Beach, CA  
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Accent Pontiac

Site: Walt Whitman Elementary School – Pontiac, MI  

   

HERE ARE THE FACTS

See: Holbrook, et al (2022), Music-Based Mentoring and Academic Improvement in High-Poverty Elementary Schools, Journal of Youth Development