Music Advocacy

Music is a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE and an ESSENTIAL quality of BEING HUMAN. Each student deserves the opportunity to experience, participate in, and perform music. Through music in our schools, we empower students to develop 21st century skills in order to become productive members of a diverse and changing society. Music education promotes critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, creativity, initiative, self-direction, leadership, and responsibility. These developed qualities provide our students with the building blocks to ensure successful futures.

It is my mission as an advocate of music to have consistent and thriving music programs in the FNSBSD.

If you would like to help keep music equitable for all check out our local music advocacy group at:

http://www.musicadvocacy4students.org

Fairbanks North Star Borough Music Education Philosophy

Music is an integral part of the core curriculum in which a student participates physically, socially, emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically. This curriculum provides a foundation where students will express themselves through singing, playing instruments, listening, moving, and composing. Skills attained through the study of music enhance student performance in all areas of the curriculum.

Fairbanks North Star Borough Music Mission Statement

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District will provide students a balanced, comprehensive, & sequential program of study in music. The curriculum will include:

• a variety of content in general music, chorus, band, orchestra, and alternative ensembles;
• relationships to other disciplines;
• accommodation for a variety of instructional methods;
• the development of analytical thinking through classroom participation, improvisation, composition, and performance;
• cooperative learning skills needed to participate in a musical group;
• the use of current technology; and
• a classroom environment that encourages lifelong appreciation and involvement in music.