Several months prior to a “Klassik for Kids” concert, Monique Mead leads a day long training seminar in which school teachers receive hands-on experience with projects that help prepare their students for the concert.

These projects promote creativity in “inventing” music related to the concert repertoire. Other preparatory activities are incorporated into subjects such as language, social studies, art, or math.

Teachers leave the seminar feeling empowered through new ideas and motivated to implement them, knowing that in a few weeks, an orchestra musician will be visiting their class.