Hello Mary,
It sounds like you are really impacting a lot of young people and I love your plan to scale and expand your work. I would love to hear more success stories! If you have a few more examples of transformations that young people have made that would be great!
Keep up the great work.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hi Dana,
Thanks for asking! We have so many, it's hard to know where to start. I'll give bullets so I can provide a few, but if you'd like any more details please ask!
- A teenager who had been in special education placement was academically ready to mainstream into public school but was too frightened to try. Although he'd had no training, he was a very talented musician and he didn't take long with EMTAH to become an accomplished percussionist -- needless to say, his self-esteem and confidence also grew. When she felt he was ready, the social worker from his special ed school promoted his talents to the mainstream high school and they were eager to have him. So not only was he able to transition through his music, he was also accepted socially there because of his abilities.
- When an aggressive 7th grader came to EMTAH, his mother was concerned that he would be expelled from school due to his aggression in the classroom. Within 8 months, his mother told us that his classroom disruption had significantly diminished.
- A 7th grade girl in special ed had spent one of her 5th year of life in the subway tunnels of New York City, sticking her skinny little arm up into the candy machines to steal "food" for herself and her sister. When she first started with EMTAH she only spoke in whispers -- by the end of one year she was singing from the stage.
- A 10th grader with a huge "I don't care" attitude that ran his life was a member of a punk rock band. He watched as his band buddy, who played bass, became an accomplished and performing musician through EMTAH. He finally joined too, and later told us: "I've learned that a lot of people have ideas too, and mine isn't always the right one." He also told us -- "I used to be able to tune people out, but now I can't!"
Thank you! These are great stories! What do you think it was that helped the 7th grade girl gain confidence and what do you think it was that reduced the boy's aggression?
The arts are nonverbal, appealing to the right side of the brain which is where emotional development takes place. For balanced learning to occur, emotional development needs to go along with cognative development -- something that isn't typically accommodated today.
When students learn the arts in apprenticeship with a teacher who utilizes our approach, which is strength-based, long-term and progressive, they experience success which they truly own. Additionally, our approach includes teaching students to specifically understand how they learn -- not just whether they are visual, kinetic, or auditory learners, but it empowers them with true ownership and validation of their unique, multi-faceted learning process.
This process opens up new avenues within them they often didn't know existed. In all, this provides a feeling of being all right in the world which gives them confidence. It is such an honor to watch this take place in students and see them walk into life with strength and confidence!
We have many children and youths lying on streets in Tanzania,most of them they come on streets because of family life problems.When you ask them why they come to find good life on town areas they say,my mother or father are died last few months/years.Our Service and Ethics for Children and Youths with The Pentecost churches Union in Tanzania established research program,why this new generation are coming to town,for finding good life,what is the main problem and how we can help them to know good ethics.We need also to make plan of provide seminars for the families,leaders and also to the schools and colleges.
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Hello Mary,
It sounds like you are really impacting a lot of young people and I love your plan to scale and expand your work. I would love to hear more success stories! If you have a few more examples of transformations that young people have made that would be great!
Keep up the great work.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hi Dana,
Thanks for asking! We have so many, it's hard to know where to start. I'll give bullets so I can provide a few, but if you'd like any more details please ask!
- A teenager who had been in special education placement was academically ready to mainstream into public school but was too frightened to try. Although he'd had no training, he was a very talented musician and he didn't take long with EMTAH to become an accomplished percussionist -- needless to say, his self-esteem and confidence also grew. When she felt he was ready, the social worker from his special ed school promoted his talents to the mainstream high school and they were eager to have him. So not only was he able to transition through his music, he was also accepted socially there because of his abilities.
- When an aggressive 7th grader came to EMTAH, his mother was concerned that he would be expelled from school due to his aggression in the classroom. Within 8 months, his mother told us that his classroom disruption had significantly diminished.
- A 7th grade girl in special ed had spent one of her 5th year of life in the subway tunnels of New York City, sticking her skinny little arm up into the candy machines to steal "food" for herself and her sister. When she first started with EMTAH she only spoke in whispers -- by the end of one year she was singing from the stage.
- A 10th grader with a huge "I don't care" attitude that ran his life was a member of a punk rock band. He watched as his band buddy, who played bass, became an accomplished and performing musician through EMTAH. He finally joined too, and later told us: "I've learned that a lot of people have ideas too, and mine isn't always the right one." He also told us -- "I used to be able to tune people out, but now I can't!"
- We have MANY more!
Thank you! These are great stories! What do you think it was that helped the 7th grade girl gain confidence and what do you think it was that reduced the boy's aggression?
The arts are nonverbal, appealing to the right side of the brain which is where emotional development takes place. For balanced learning to occur, emotional development needs to go along with cognative development -- something that isn't typically accommodated today.
When students learn the arts in apprenticeship with a teacher who utilizes our approach, which is strength-based, long-term and progressive, they experience success which they truly own. Additionally, our approach includes teaching students to specifically understand how they learn -- not just whether they are visual, kinetic, or auditory learners, but it empowers them with true ownership and validation of their unique, multi-faceted learning process.
This process opens up new avenues within them they often didn't know existed. In all, this provides a feeling of being all right in the world which gives them confidence. It is such an honor to watch this take place in students and see them walk into life with strength and confidence!
We have many children and youths lying on streets in Tanzania,most of them they come on streets because of family life problems.When you ask them why they come to find good life on town areas they say,my mother or father are died last few months/years.Our Service and Ethics for Children and Youths with The Pentecost churches Union in Tanzania established research program,why this new generation are coming to town,for finding good life,what is the main problem and how we can help them to know good ethics.We need also to make plan of provide seminars for the families,leaders and also to the schools and colleges.
John Lubele
Changemaker Tanzania
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