​I believe…

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• Music is essential to being human – therefore, it is something every human being deserves to experience and participate in.

• Teaching must begin with relationships.

• Creating a lifelong love of music in students is second only to relationships in music education.

• All students deserve to experience success and the fruits of hard work, and a teacher’s role is in part to help them reach that point.

• Music education is not passive, but demands involvement. Every person in the room must be engaged for music education to be at its best.

• Music education is participation in something far beyond a classroom. It is participation in a universal language that can connect people who would otherwise be strangers.

• Music can be a source of hope, no matter who you are and what you are experiencing.