This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
My students are dynamic, multilingual students who demonstrate a real passion for music. Our school is located in Corona, Queens a high-immigrant, low-income community where 90% of students are Latinx and almost 50% of our students are classified as English Language Learners. At PS 14, we believe that the arts are key to fostering language, learning, and creativity.
Music taps into their rich cultural assets, providing a bridge between their many ways of knowing, and the rigors of the school curriculum.
Students demonstrate real ownership over their learning and a real zeal for learning an instrument. Not only do they come to class excited to make music but they are eager to take their instruments home to practice and share what they have learned with their families. Music-inspired leadership in our classroom. Our senior band students mentor junior band students and put on several in-school and community concerts throughout the year.
We are opening the band program to the third grade in Spring 2023 and need additional instruments inventory and supplies for our students. Instrument accessories include clarinet reeds, saxophone reeds, neckstraps, drumsticks, and trumpet mouthpieces.
The bell kits requested come with a rolling bag and will allow students to take their instrument home to practice. The soprano saxophone case will replace the current case which is worn and has a broken zipper. A new case will allow a student to take the instrument home to practice.
Our students cannot afford to purchase or rent instruments for the school year and rely on our school to loan them instruments so it is essential that we provide them with all the instruments and supplies needed.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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