Education Through Music-Los Angeles incorporates interdisciplinary learning into the academic curriculum by collaborating with music teachers, artists, and academic teachers on an ongoing basis through professional development workshops and participation in school staff meetings. We address the cultural needs of each school through collaborative strategic planning and by practicing a culturally responsive approach to teaching music.

ETM-LA employs the following key initiatives:
– Provide weekly, yearlong high-quality culturally responsive music instruction for every child.
– Provide ongoing professional development services for music teachers, teaching artists, and class teachers.
– Perform ongoing assessment and evaluation to strengthen music programs.
– Create networks across districts and communities to bridge diverse cultures through music making, professional development, and a sharing of resources, and
– Increase parent and community involvement in the arts and education.

Through these key initiatives, ETM-LA strives to broaden and deepen school and community understanding of, and support for, arts education. We work to build school and community efforts towards sustaining programs independently and long term.