Music-in-Education National Consortium
"The mission of New England Conservatory is to become an advocate for music’s role in our society. It includes two primary aspects: first, to provide the best possible training of professional musicians to contribute to the highest standards of music in our culture, and second, to provide ways for musicians to become better communicators, teachers, and, in addition, effective advocates for the contribution music can make to enhance learning in other subject areas in our public schools.”
—Daniel Steiner, President, New England Conservatory
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The Music-in-Education National Consortium (MIENC) represents a network of universities, arts organizations, school reform foundations, and their partnering schools whose purpose is to bring about an evolution of music teaching and learning so that music can assume an essential role both in higher education teacher preparation and in public school reform.
New England Conservatory received a FIPSE federal grant and an NEA grant to manage this new consortium. The principal Consortium members are now in Atlanta (Georgia State University School of Music and its Center for Community Collaborations), Boston (New England Conservatory, From The Top Radio Show), Chicago (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Edu.cation, Northwestern University Schools of Education and Music, Ravinia Festival), Durham (Kenan Institute for the Arts at the North Carolina School for the Arts), and New York City (Metropolitan Opera Guild, Mannes College of Music).
The Consortium Goals are to develop:
- Guided internships as vehicles for the preparation for musicians as Artist-Teacher-Scholars who perform, instruct, and conduct research in community based collaborations between schools of music and public schools.
- A research-based validation and endorsement of exemplary practices shared across the various organizations participating in Music-in-Education Consortium work.
- Professional Development Exchange Programs that provide a series of visitations, presentations, on-site demonstrations of best practices (and supporting electronic media) among various partnership sites.
- A central MIENC website (www.music-in-education.org) that provides an information and distribution center of professional development, research, program development literature, and active communication channels among the local and national partners.
- Generative Professional Conferences, Institutes & Forums that provide structured dialog sessions .in order to re-examine school practices with regard to MIENC principles, to share new forms of professional development, and to continue to meet with decision makers in order to advance change in public school policy.