Music and the Brain

Music and the Brain Bringing music literacy curriculum and classroom keyboard instruction to under-resourced schools.

We can't wait to introduce you to our 2026 All-Star Students, but in the meantime, let's get another round of applause f...
06/11/2026

We can't wait to introduce you to our 2026 All-Star Students, but in the meantime, let's get another round of applause for our 2025 All-Stars!

If you're new to our community, All-Star Students are nominated by their teachers for diligence, focus, and improvement in music class, and we love to celebrate them all year long!

06/05/2026

Music education is vital for so many reasons, but we can’t help but think this is one of the most important. Music class creates space in a child’s school day to feel excited, happy, confident, calm, relaxed, and so much more. How does playing music make you feel?

Happy birthday to our friend Daryl McDaniels! Thank you for being such an inspiration to our students. We hope your day ...
05/31/2026

Happy birthday to our friend Daryl McDaniels! Thank you for being such an inspiration to our students. We hope your day is as great as you are!

Flashback to November's Facing Mirrors Workshop, where we did a deep dive into communication with our NYC music teachers...
05/28/2026

Flashback to November's Facing Mirrors Workshop, where we did a deep dive into communication with our NYC music teachers- and had a blast while doing it. All music teachers deserve support and professional development!

05/26/2026

Everybody say ‘bravo’ to 2nd Grade All-Star Isaac on his incredible rendition of the viral song ! Isaac learned to play this song all by himself after several years of MATB in school, and we couldn’t be prouder.

05/21/2026

Year after year, Music and the Brain classrooms are a fun, reliable place where teachers, students, and entire school communities can return and thrive- but we need your help to make it happen. Become a guardian of arts education by making a gift today.

https://bfany.org/music-and-the-brain/donate-matb/

04/30/2026

Can we tell you everything you need to know about Music and the Brain in 30 seconds? We’re going to try!

Audio Transcript: Music and the Brain is a school-day general music program that’s been used by more than 600 schools across the country. In our 29 year history, we’ve brought music into the lives of more than 550,000 children. Our program provides a comprehensive music curriculum, over 20,000 digital resources, a full keyboard lab, and teacher support and professional development for grades K-12. Music and the Brain is proven to increase students’ academic performance, fine motor skills, focus, confidence, teamwork, and more, plus 98% of teachers say we’ve made them more effective educators. And we’re accepting partner school applications RIGHT NOW at musicandthebrain.org!

04/23/2026

Can our partner teachers describe Music and the Brain in one word? They can if that word is everything 😉

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Let's create the most positive comment section on the internet! If these incredible All-Stars were your students, what w...
04/22/2026

Let's create the most positive comment section on the internet! If these incredible All-Stars were your students, what would you say to encourage and motivate them? We'll go first ⤵

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