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CMF Wins Platinum for Media Excellence |
 DALLAS,
TX-- AVA Digital Awards announced winners for the 2013 international awards competition. AVA recognizes outstanding achievement by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design and production of media that is part of the evolution of digital communication.
Glenn Anderson has joined the CMF Team as Government Affairs Advisor. Glenn served 12 years in the Washington State Legislature and was recognized as a statewide thought leader and voice for educational performance, achievement, accountability and reform. During his tenure, he oversaw every aspect of early learning, K-12 and higher education policy and budgeting. He was a co-leader of a bipartisan coalition that successfully enacted a comprehensive K-12 reform package, the first in 30 years that led to a landmark state Supreme Court decision mandating implementation and adequate funding for those reforms.
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Children's Music Foundation, Inc.
608 State Street S., Suite 100
Kirkland, Washington 98033
www.cmfinc.org
425-250-2390 |
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March is Music in Our Schools Month!
 Since 1985, March has been filled with sound, as music in our schools is celebrated around the nation. Sponsored by the National Association for Music Education, the event focuses the nation's attention on the need for and benefits of quality music education programs. Schools and community groups celebrate with creative activities and events based on a designated theme. This year's theme is "Music Education - Orchestrating Success." Let your voice be heard in supporting music in our schools!
New Product Offering and Pricing
As a result of feedback we've received from our pilot schools, the Children's Music Foundation will also be offering a more basic version of the First Note Music Curriculum at a much reduced priced to be announced later this month so stay tuned!
Measuring Program Results
We collected data from both our teachers and their students last fall and will be collecting it again at the end of the shool year. The collected data will then be evaluated for the program's effectiveness and benefits. CMF is exceptionally fortunate to have Dr. Suvi Saarikallio as our research advisor. Dr. Saarikallio works as a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Dr. Saarikallio's research focuses on the psychosocial aspects of musical behavior, including mood and emotion, personality, development, and well-being.
Dr. Saarikallio is an internationally acknowledged expert particularly in research on music as a means for emotional self-regulation. She won the ESCOM Young Researcher Award (2006), has actively published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, given invited lectures at international seminars, and is currently leading a 5-year research project on "Music-rela ted emotional competence and adolescent mental health." After receiving her doctorate (2007), Saarikallio worked at the Department of Music at University of Jyväskylä as an assistant professor for an international master's degree program, Music, Mind and Technology (2007-2010), and currently actively gives lectures at the department particularly on research methods and music psychology.
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If you would like more information about how you can offer First Note in your school, please email us at info@cmfinc.org or call 425.250.2390.
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