Little Kids Rock transforms lives by restoring, expanding, and innovating music education in our schools!
Little Kids Rock began in 1996 as an informal effort by ESL teacher David Wish to give his San Francisco Bay Area second grade students a music enrichment program because the school did not have funding for one. What began as one teacher’s effort to bring music education to a few dozen public school children has catapulted into a national nonprofit that serves hundreds of thousands of young people year after year. Little Kids Rock was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization in 2002, and has since expanded with programs in 48 states.
We accomplished this by:
• Championing an innovative modern band music education that connects learning to the music kids already know and love—styles including rock, pop, hip-hop, country, EDM, reggae, and other contemporary styles as they emerge—performed on guitar, keyboard, bass guitar, drums, vocals, and technology
• Recruiting, training, and equipping public school teachers to start music programs utilizing our methods and materials
• Partnering with public school districts to provide a quality music education to as many young people as possible—especially those in underserved communities
Today, Little Kids Rock is the largest nonprofit provider of musical instruments, program curriculum, and teacher training in the country. Having trained more than 5,000 teachers and served more than 1,000,000 students in 500 public school districts to date, Little Kids Rock has emerged as a national thought leader in the field of music education to become a valued service provider to the U.S. public school system.
PO Box 43369, Montclair, NJ 07043-0369, USA
Causes:
Art, Education, K-12, Performing Arts