13 Jul Music Partners
Northshore Music Partners
“Music can unlock a creative potential that a student did not even know they had. Our goal is to help students unlock their potential by making sure every child has a ready-to-play instrument.” – Patsy Treece, Founder Northshore Music Partners
Foundation donors can support school programs, grants, and opportunities to perform through Northwest Music Partners.
Northshore Music Partners is a group of parents, teachers, and community members dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and advocating for music in the Northshore School District schools by:
- Arranging for music at school board meetings, city and community-wide events, and Foundation events. (These activities were pre-COVID, will resume when able)
- Facilitating booster training for both music and athletic booster clubs so groups can better understand best practices.
- Funding musical instruments for class use with the support of the Foundation.
- Providing instruments for students in need. This makes it possible for any area elementary school student to have access to a new or used musical instrument.
You can support student music education by:
1.) Donating gently used instruments. Donations are tax-deductible. Contact Patsy@nsdfoundation.org
2.) Make a donation to fund the repair and refurbishment of donated instruments.
3) Attend and support school-based performances by our talented musicians.
The reason we are so passionate about music education is because of the following findings and also because it can be a natural source of joy and comfort when a student loses themselves in their music.
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Students who were exposed to music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in a conventional manner. –Neurological Research, March 15, 1999
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High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school. –National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988
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Middle school and high school students who participated in instrumental music performances scored significantly higher than their non-band peers in standardized tests. –University of Sarasota Study, Jeffrey Lynn Kluball; East Texas State University Study, Daryl Erick Trent
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The College Entrance Examination Board found that students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math than students with no arts participation. –College-Bound Seniors National Report. “Profile of SAT Program Test Takers. Princeton, NJ.” The College Entrance Examination Board, 2001
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Music integrated into seventh- and eighth-grade social studies result in better subject performance and better social behaviors and attitudes. -National Educational Longitudinal Study, 1988.
For more information about Northshore Music Partners, please contact Patsy Treece Patsy@nsdfoundation.org