Expanding Horizons Through Music (EHTM) - literacy-through music for preK students at risk

Expanding Horizons Through Music

Expanding Horizons Through Music (EHTM) uses group music-making activities to teach foundational literacy and social skills to preschool students who are unhoused or at risk. This year-long residency engages students, their families and caregivers, and their classroom teachers to reinforce learning through music.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Students participate in weekly interactive music sessions led by EHTM teaching artists using simple percussion instruments and original songs. Young learners also delight in interactive performance programs from AFLMA artists and from students from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Classroom Teachers participate in the classroom sessions led by our teaching artists and in professional development sessions and conferences to learn how to effectively integrate music into their classroom.

Parents and Guardians are engaged through special events, multilingual e-newsletters, and customized, bi-lingual songbooks and recordings featuring musical learning activities they can do with their kids.

Site Partners are engaged throughout the planning, implementation and evaluation process, working toward the goal of running the program themselves more and more autonomously until our direct, weekly administration is no longer needed.

Since 2011, Expanding Horizons Through Music (EHTM) residencies have provided free and subsidized, literacy-through-music programming to early learners at the following sites:

  • Horizons For Homeless Children, Roxbury
  • Nurtury Early Education, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and Cambridge
  • Sacred Heart School, Lynn
  • Sacred Heart Elementary, Roslindale
  • South Boston Catholic Academy
  • St. Mary's School, Lynn
  • Webster Extension, Everett

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDING PARTNERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT:

  • Bushrod H. Campbell & Adah F. Hall Charity Fund
  • DCU for Kids Foundation
  • Eastern Bank Foundation
  • The Fuller Foundation
  • Henry E. Niles Foundation
  • Johnson Family Foundation
  • John W. Alden Trust
  • Liberty Mutual Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America
  • Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund
  • The TJX Foundation

LEARN MORE

For more information, including how to bring EHTM to students at your learning center, please contact Residency Program Manager Kaijeh Johnson, or Program Director Gail Zarren

To make a donation to support the expansion of our EHTM program Click Here.

EHTM RESOURCES

Expanding Horizons Through Music: Musical Parenting Songs Recordings (for workshop participants)

Expanding Horizons Through Music: Songbook Recordings (for program parents)