Beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing what works with students for a change.

What impresses me most is that every child, teacher, and administrator and parentl is involved and affected by the program in a
fully implemented OMA school. The curriculum is comprehensive, sequential and outcomes based. The professional development program for each team member (teaching artist, arts integration specialist, classroom teacher and administrator) is deep, specific and ongoing. And best of all it is cost effective, keeping all of the arts alive and imbedded in the school while raising student achievement scores and effectively addressing all learning styles.
As a former Tucson Unified Governing Board member, I am so proud of what has been accomplished for children here because this is a program that is truly replicable and has the capacity to assist students everywhere.

I am a 6th grade teacher at Alice Vail Middle School in Tucson Unified School District and have worked with the OMA trio for two years. In my math and science classes, the wonderful musicians have opened the doors to pathways that connect music, rhythm, and composition to our subject matter. My students look so forward to their Trio Time as do I. Little miracles happen each week as my students make real life connections between what we study and how it fits into another enriching world outside of our classroom. The collaboration happening between the OMA artists and classroom teachers breathes life back into the art of teaching children. To have a bridge constructed between skill building and practice to mastery and application is hugely important.

Inspiring video!

What a wonderful video to liven up my day and bring hope in these trying times. The arts are so vital to our children that to cut them back or eliminate them will really be detrimental to the next generation. Oh, that we could have such a program in our schools!

Thanks so much for sharing this video and the pdfs as well. I wonder how this program would translate to homeschooling groups and how they interact with community resources in terms of theatre groups, dance troupes, etc. It is so obviously powerful for the kids! I will pass it onto them through our blog!

This video confirms the need for arts in our education. All kids deserve the opportunity these impressive kids have to live their learning.

This is simply fantastic. And the payback will be exponential, but personally for each of the kids who have the opportunity to learn in this way, and culturally, because they will carry their early experiences of the world through self-expression and group expression into their adult lives and into their adult communities.

(There seems to be something wrong with the code that you have to imbed the video: I wanted to put it on my blog, but I keep getting a message that there is a broken link.)

The concept sounds very similar to the ideas of Waldorf schools

Thanks so much for sharing this. This should be a part of every school.