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How Music Primes the Brain for Learning
What makes music learning so powerful is how it engages all those different systems in a single activity. To play the violin, for example, a student needs to coordinate their...
How Music Primes the Brain for Learning
What makes music learning so powerful is how it engages all those different systems in a single activity. To play the violin, for example, a student needs to coordinate their...

Let's Make Music Together - Creating a Feeling ...
Cave men created musical instruments – animal bones were banged together and horns were blown – warning of danger, calling people together, marking key events – ceremonies. These primitive sounds...
Let's Make Music Together - Creating a Feeling ...
Cave men created musical instruments – animal bones were banged together and horns were blown – warning of danger, calling people together, marking key events – ceremonies. These primitive sounds...

A CHILD'S BRAIN DEVELOPS FASTER WITH EXPOSURE T...
A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development...
A CHILD'S BRAIN DEVELOPS FASTER WITH EXPOSURE T...
A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development...

Spring Student Recital at Holiday Lanes
This past May, West Colfax Academy held our first in-person recital since December. We were thrilled to give students the opportunity to perform for their parents and peers!
Spring Student Recital at Holiday Lanes
This past May, West Colfax Academy held our first in-person recital since December. We were thrilled to give students the opportunity to perform for their parents and peers!

Music Training Can Improve Decision-Making, Foc...
Another study on the benefits of music... We understand more and more the health of our brain through modern technological scanning. The breaking of synapses and disease causing problems and...
Music Training Can Improve Decision-Making, Foc...
Another study on the benefits of music... We understand more and more the health of our brain through modern technological scanning. The breaking of synapses and disease causing problems and...

The Importance of Music Education
(This is an excellent article by Debra S. Minyard, 2015 New Mexico State Teacher of the Year) When I first started teaching in 1998, I believed fervently that...
The Importance of Music Education
(This is an excellent article by Debra S. Minyard, 2015 New Mexico State Teacher of the Year) When I first started teaching in 1998, I believed fervently that...