{"id":2132,"date":"2020-12-03T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/a-student-club-bringing-music-to-elementary-schools-plays-on-through-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:26:40","slug":"music-lessons-for-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/music-lessons-for-elementary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"A student club bringing music to elementary schools plays on through the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3363-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3363-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"A student club bringing music to elementary schools plays on through the pandemic\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Students at the Dr. Theodore T.  Alexander Jr. Science Center School near USC\u2019s University Park campus, shown here in pre-pandemic play, have been receiving weekly music lessons with the help of Danika Banh\u2019s Music Inspiring Community club. (Photos: Courtesy of Danika Banh).\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=student\">Student<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>A student club bringing music to elementary schools plays on through the pandemic<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC Dornsife junior Danika Banh created the Music Inspiring Community club to bring regular music lessons to underserved elementary school classrooms. <strong>[3\u00be min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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week, kindergarteners at Los Angeles\u2019 Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Jr. Science Center School log in to their computers for a music lesson. Through interactive games like Bingo and \u201chot and cold,\u201d the children get introduced to music theory, music history and a variety of orchestral instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, these students would only receive one music lesson a month. Limited funding made weekly classes impossible for this school. Then, along came Danika Banh, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/\">biological sciences major<\/a>\u00a0at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a piano minor at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Thornton School of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/MusicCommunity_InStoryA-3363.jpg\" alt=\"A woman poses in front of the Grand Canyon.\" width=\"900\" height=\"580\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banh grew up playing the piano as well as the marimba in her high school marching band.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, Banh formed the club\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/musicinspiringcomm.wixsite.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Inspiring Community<\/a>, which matches USC student volunteers with elementary school classes to give a weekly lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, they taught in person, but the club has since switched their classes to Zoom. Banh concedes the new format isn\u2019t always ideal, but it\u2019s allowed her volunteers to continue an initiative she believes is a powerful boon to early education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith music, you\u2019re learning another language, basically, because you have to learn how to read notes,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt gives students patience and teaches them to cooperate with one another. They learn to listen, and then analyze and respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once in-person classes can resume, Banh hopes to expand the program to even more local elementary schools who are struggling to provide regular music classes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passing her good fortune on to others\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Banh\u2019s inspiration for the club was partly her parents. They\u2019d both fled war-torn Vietnam as children, spent time in Malaysian refugee camps and eventually joined family in Southern California, where Banh was later born. Neither had ever had the opportunity to learn to play an instrument themselves, so they made sure Banh had lessons as a child.<\/p>\n<p>She studied piano and played marimba in her high school marching band. \u201cI really love the camaraderie of the large group and playing with everyone else. It gives you that feeling of teamwork and helps you build your skills in leadership and confidence,\u201d says Banh.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman at USC, she taught science lessons to elementary students through USC Dornsife\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\">Joint Educational Project<\/a>. \u201cI was talking with the teacher and she told me they had a music teacher who came in only once a month. I thought, \u2019How can they really learn anything in the span of an hour a month and retain it?\u2019\u201d says Banh.<\/p>\n<p>She thought about her own parents, who had never been offered the chance to learn to play and how fortunate she was to get an opportunity herself. \u201cI was very privileged to have music as a fundamental part of my life since I was very young,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Banh talked with friends who also had a musical background but who, like Banh, felt too committed to studies to dedicate themselves to a musical group. They decided to pitch to the university the idea of a club that would match USC students to local classrooms for music education. Music Inspiring Community began. The group now teaches hour long lessons to kindergarten and first-grade classes at the science center school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changing pitch<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/MusicCommunity_InStoryB-3363.jpg\" alt=\"Children sit on the floor holding batons.\" width=\"450\" height=\"700\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interactive games help students learn music theory and music history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The switch-up during the COVID-19 pandemic isn\u2019t the first time the group has made adaptations to their teaching format. They initially offered lessons on the USC campus, but with parking and accessibility a challenge, they switched to teaching in the classroom. The school is within walking distance of campus, which makes for an easy commute.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom lessons do have advantages. Banh says it\u2019s allowed her volunteers to bring in more guest performers, often fellow USC music students, to showcase their instrument \u2014 which sometimes produces moments of hilarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my session members plays the clarinet and when all the kids see it they&#8217;re like, \u2018Squidward, he\u2019s just like Squidward!\u2019\u201d says Banh, referencing the clarinet-playing character of the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a testament to the joy of teaching that her volunteers, despite Zoom fatigue from their own classes, expressed disappointment when they learned their semester was coming to an end. At a recent online meeting, when Banh told them the next week was their last, all of the volunteers collectively unmuted and shouted, \u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once coronavirus restrictions ease, the volunteers will head back into the classroom, where they can resume popular activities like building pan pipes out of paper. Banh is also raising funds to purchase instruments, perhaps clappers or shakers, that will let students keep rhythm and play as a group, just the sort of experience Banh benefited from during her own childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Dornsife junior Danika Banh created the Music Inspiring Community club to bring regular music lessons to underserved elementary school classrooms. <strong>[3\u00be min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17],"tags":[62,235,61,148,544],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-impact","category-student","tag-covid-19","tag-music","tag-pandemic","tag-students","tag-volunteering"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A student club bringing music to elementary schools plays on through the pandemic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/music-lessons-for-elementary-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A student club bringing music to elementary schools plays on through the pandemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"USC Dornsife junior Danika Banh created the Music Inspiring Community club to bring regular music lessons to underserved elementary school classrooms. 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