When designing and managing educational initiatives, arts organizations must balance the demands of serving sizable numbers of students and teachers – to “reach wide” – with the corresponding need to “go deep” in a few places.

In 1999, The Music Center began a partnership with Julia B. Morrison Elementary School in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District. Our goal? To go deep, extending and enriching our understanding of critical issues and challenges in the field of arts education.