Cultivating a Climate that Embraces Diversity

1. Cultivating a Climate that Embraces Diversity Presented by: Rochelle R. Goldberg Union-Endicott CSD

2. Music education has become a more dynamic field in recent decades, due in no small part to the diversified easily accessible online music and curricular content that is now available enabling us to study diversity in meaningful ways.

3. I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” ~ HaimGinott Teacher

4. Posters of composers from diverse cultures. • Posters in different languages. • The Artwork of Karen Cannon Climate through DécorCreating a culturally responsive learning environment.

6. Language often doesn’t matter-emotion does. Feel the music, and you can understand the message. • Google Translate • Translating Apps for iPhone and Android • Lesson books in foreign languages Bridge The Gaps and Break Down Language Barriers!

7. EMPATHY:Students develop empathy through music. Empathy is something students struggle to learn, but is an invaluable skill once acquired. When students can put themselves in another’s place, respect flourishes. Where there is respect, learning can take place unabashed. STEREOTYPES: To believe unfairly that all people with a specific characteristic are the same. Discuss stereotypes associated with the various music genres. Key Vocabulary

8. “Zero tolerance” for anything that is disrespectful, hurtful or intolerant of diversity • Be Tolerant of people different from us • Think about the impact of our words and actions on others first. • Keep an open ‘Yogi’ mind Suggested Ground Rules for Music Listening Discussions.

9. No laughing • Be kind • Really listen to one another • Recognize we have much to learn from one another.

10. STUDY: ROCK, POP, WHITE POWER: How Music Influences Support for Ethnic Groups • Music has a lot of power to influence our thoughts and actions, (Rochelle adds ‘Moods’) more than we often recognize. It has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our own group, and sometimes negative biases toward others. Climate and Music: Is Music to the Soul as Food to the Body?

11. (study continued) • The study involved 148 undergraduate students who were told they would be participating in a study concerning the funding of student groups on campus using tuition funds. Listened to Music in a Waiting Room for 7 minutes.

12. Build artwork around the sound of music. • Study the lyrics of cultural music and their meanings. • Incorporate drama into regular class activities. • Allow students to find or design/illustrate appropriate costumes or wardrobe for the roles they play • Drum Circles Celebrating Culture Through the Fine and Performing Arts

13. Allow sharing by students in class, giving time for others to ask questions for understanding. • Opportunities for collaboration: Group projects, presentations, class activities, etc. • Celebrate whenever possible! • Recognize commemorative days • Cookbook, recipe and suitable music accompaniment

14. Find and make any available cultural instruments. Ocarina’s! • Listen to it-play music quietly in the background during work times. • Diorama your story! • Write a play/musical • Bring in guest performers and role models from diverse backgrounds. • Amazing Grace Whitley Phipps

15. Wintley Phipps Amazing Grace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcjnNry4do Springboard to Beyonce Swing Low Sweet Chariott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryfRoqbu4c Springboard to African American Spirituals and Slave Chants Springboard to Amazing Grace 7 year old girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDDlxmsciqY Springboard to Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention Alabama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW9V0JD87dk From Pop to the Promise Land

16. BritainsGot Talent: Jonathan and Charlotte Audition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4 Springboard to Andrea Bocelli with Celine Dion Springboard to Pavarotti and the Three Tenors GangnamStyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIQToVqDMb8 Springboard to North Korean Children Playing the Guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSedE5sU3uc Springboard to Classical Guitar Music or Traditional Korean Music

17. Paul Simon’s ‘Call Me Al’ from the Graceland CD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrKejQTynk Springboard to Ladysmith Black Mambazo Springboard to the Lion King Circle of Life/the Lion Sleeps Tonight Junichi Tazawa Red Sox Ballplayer entrance music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1vV2GmZP2M Japanese Music

18. The Piano Guys: what Makes you Beautiful (One Direction) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VqTwnAuHws The Piano guys: Pachelbel’s Cannon (4 Cellos) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5_xj_yuhs Pachelbel’s Rant: Comedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM Hasidic Regge/Rap Matisyahu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxxuSiC4wNw

19. http://books.google.com/books/about/Teaching_Music_Globally.html?id=pRTAQgAACAAJhttp://books.google.com/books/about/Teaching_Music_Globally.html?id=pRTAQgAACAAJ Teaching Music Globally (Oxford University Press, 2004) K-12 Resource

20. www.racebridgesforschools.com • Bethsmusicnotes.blogspot.com • http://www.bethsmusicnotes.blogspot.com/ Web Links