What is KeyLessons?
Our goal in the keylessons campaign is to build support for our music program and close the opportunity gap for underprivileged students. An opportunity gap has emerged making an upward climb much tougher in the 21 century, compared with the mid 20th century. The American dream is in crisis, the United States is losing its status as a land of opportunity for all. Studies have shown from 1960 to 1970 income was moving up for the poor and middle-income class but since 1970 the income has slowly decreased. As a result, the gap between the rich and poor are getting wider and wider each year. For example, high tech jobs have flourished with doubled income since 1960 from 92,000 to 219,000 while the income of the poor have fallen from 24,400 to 18,800. Unfortunately poverty impacts school success and makes it harder for students in low income families to live the American dream. High income families are able to put more money towards their children's cognitive development than those living in poverty and KeyLessons is changing that one step at a time by providing free music lessons for underprivileged students. Music was proven to not only make a student musical but to also enhance language development, increase IQ, make the brain work harder, enhance spatial-temporal skills, and improve test scores. Music has many benefits and many times it is underrated how important music programs are. A ten year study, which tracked over 25,000 middle and high school students, showed that students in music classes received higher scores on standardized tests than students with little to no musical involvement. The musical students scored, on an average, sixty-three points higher on the verbal section and forty-four points higher on the math sections of the SATs than non-music students. When applying to colleges, these points could be the difference between an acceptance letter and a rejection letter. Most parents have little if any knowledge about the positive benefit of music learning. The compelling research generated over the last two decades has not (for the most) made its way to the general public. While the music advocacy data is powerfully convincing. It certainly is not common knowledge. Pulling two and two together, by now you may have concluded that to close the opportunity gap, music is the best way to educate those in need by providing free lessons. So here we are to do so and so can you. Join this movement create your own KeyLesson at your school and close this opportunity gap.
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Commonly asked questions
Is there transportation provided? No, students will have to find their own transportation to hebron high school.
How can I trust the student that will be teaching my child to do their job? Yes, our members are young high school students and we don't have any sort of college degree but, the members of the Hebron band student leadership team consist of highly intellectual students (some at the top of their class) that are in wind symphony which is the top band. Once you email us you will receive a profile of the student your child has matched with and you will have the choice of accepting or denying the confirmation.
how much will lessons cost? lessons from KeyLessons are free.
where will lessons be located? Hebron high school band hall address is down below the sign up section of our website.
Can I schedule a lesson at my house? Due to safety purposes all lessons will be located at hebron high school.
why cant I just schedule a lesson with a private lesson teacher? It's much easier to go ahead and sign up for a lesson with a teacher but 30 minute private lessons from teachers normally cost about twenty dollars a week without a scholarship. While it costs ten dollars with a scholarship. If you are qualified to sign up for Key Lessons, why spend 10 dollars a week when you could be spending zero! It'll benefit not only you but also the Hebron band booster club who pay for scholarships.
Is KeyLessons even successful? We've had over 200 students so far that have continued music throughout high school. One student named Emily Stewart started KeyLessons in sixth grade. Her parents were on the edge of making her quit band due to financial issues until they found KeyLessons. Emily continued music through out high school and has made all-state all four years of high school. After accepting a full ride, she is now is attending Julliard and is majoring in music performance. Emily was one of many successful stories and your child can be one too.
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Citation:
Gewax,Marilyn. "The Number Adds Up To This:Less And Less Opportunity For Poor Kids." NPR, NPR 10 Mar. 2015, https://www.npr.org/2015/03/10/391922654/the-numbers-add-up-to-this-less-and-less-opportunity-for-poor-kids
Brown, Laura Lewis. "The Benefits of Music Education." PBS, Public Brodcasting Services, 9 Dec 2019, https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/the-benefits-of-music-education
Lautzenheiser, Tim. "WHY MUSIC? WHY BAND?" Music for all - Providing Positively Life-Changing Experiences for Students, https://www.musicforall.org/who-we-are/advocacy/why-music-why-band
about my sources:
NPR and PBS has a history of doing in-depth reporting and covering important stories that aren’t always covered elsewhere. They also relentlessly fact-check, and if they do get something wrong, they issue a correction promptly. Over all, I have found them to be very reliable. NPR and PBS are as far as the U.S. is concerned are finest journalistic institutions for pure news. They report the news in as factual a basis as possible.
while Music for All is one of the largest and most influential national music education organizations in support of active music making. Music for All is unique in that it combines programming at a national level with arts education advocacy.