
History
Musical Sprouts was “born” four years ago out of MBAW’s well-established Kids to Concerts series, with the goal to measure the impact of music and art on academic performance. The planned STEAM curricula (a merging of STEM and Fine Arts) works to open students’ eyes and imagination to a vast wild world of possibilities and engage them through hands-on activities built around international culture and fine arts.
Past
Musical Sprouts has successfully introduced three cultures each season to a growing number of schools in the San Antonio area.
- Started Awilda’s house
- 1 lesson from kids to concerts
- 2016-2017 Season
Fall 2016 | Russia
Winter 2016 | Spain
Spring 2017 | India - 2017-2018 Season
Fall 2017 | Africa
Winter 2017 | China
Spring 2018 | Mexico - 2018-2019 Season
Fall 2018 | Native American
Winter 2018 | Germany
Spring 2019 | Japan
Present
- Now 5 lessons per culture
- Curricu
- Sprouts is an invitation to move into the classroom
- 5 schools have given us week of instructional time in the 24
- 1 hour for the pretest
- Hour concert week2
- Week3-7 lessons
- Week 8 test
- All together 24 hours
- Training teachers adds 2 hours per segment before lessons
- Optional guest during library hour added at their discretion adding to the time
- commited relationship
- (District for website) Price Elementary( South San ISD), Southwest Elementary (Southwest ISD), Colonial Hills Elementary (Northeast ISD) control, Devine Intermediate (Devine ISD), JT Brackenridge (San Antonio ISD)
- Waiting list schools: School of Science and Technology Discovery (SST ISD), whole SST ISD is on waiting list, Kriedwald Road Elementary (Southwest ISD), Ball Academy (San Antonio ISD), Camelot Elementary (magnificent 7)(Northeast ISD), Passmore Elementary (Northside ISD), have had conversations SAISD public schools, all nine elementary schools internal Bachelorette
Future
- Develop curricula and partner with school to combine STEM and the arts, reach more schools, utilize more,
- Promote towards younger K-2nd
- Borrow native instruments from MBAW.
- Possible visual art connection through artists that come in
Musical Sprouts is looking to establish a more standardized curricula to efficiently
Program Staff
Caleb Gonzalez (Director of Educational Outreach)
Isabel Anaya (MBAW Curriculum and Data Coordinator)
Corinna Quintanilla (Curriculum Specialist, Sprouts Campus Coordinator)