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      • Child Safeguarding Policy
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    • Contact Us
  • What We Do
    • GITC Spring 2021 Online Workshops
    • Adaptive Music (AMAISE)
    • Teaching Artist Residencies
    • For Music Educators
    • For Parents
    • Becoming a Trainer
  • GIVE
    • GITC Classroom Wishlist
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​Registration for April workshops will begin on March 8, 2021
​
NEWSFLASH! Join us early Monday at 6:45 and 7:30 a.m. on FOX 5 San Diego,
where GITC founder and director, Jessica Anne Baron joins local author Janet Lawless Christ
& Heather Fox to discuss Christ's new book about rehoming honey bees,
the power of music,
and how the author plans to help students learn to play ukulele!
We're excited to share Bizzie the Beat-Loving Bumbling Bee... Click here to read our latest bee-eautiful blog!

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 Our Mission
​Guitars in the Classroom supports highly-engaged student learning in public schools by training, equipping and inspiring teachers and school staff to sing, play folk instruments, lead, compose and integrate music with academic instruction and social-emotional development. Our free programs restore music to its rightful place in childhood and society while supporting all learners to access their creativity through the power of song. ​ 

Our Vision
We envision the time when all students have free access to learning through music as a vital part of their academic education and social emotional development.  San Diego County is our hub.  We've trained over 15,000 educators in  38 states and Canada in this approach.  Our goal is to make GITC available to teachers wherever they serve through online instruction and resources.  Please join us for a GITC class or sign up online to learn!

How We Serve 
GITC's ongoing after-school courses and or school-day teaching artist residencies infuse and boost student engagement and learning with the power of song! By training, equipping and empowering educators and specialists to become capable and confident musicians and song leaders for learning, GITC is reaching over a quarter of a million students with free integrated music in 39 states every year. 

When teachers become comfortable enough to begin leading songs for learning, they report that student enthusiasm, engagement, literacy and academic skills, and social-emotional awareness improve. Eventually most also begin teaching ukulele or guitar as a part of daily learning. We help them procure instruments thanks to our awesome sponsors! Students begin strumming, singing and songwriting together and this joyful approach   to learning together often inspires an upbeat and artistic shift in school culture. 

Our motto is “Better Learning through Music.
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Our Core Values
Creativity,  Integrity,
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion 
Cross-Curricular Learning,
​Caring & Respect

& Well-Being for All Students & Educators
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OFFERING MUSICAL TRAINING ALSO REQUIRES SUPPLIES!
With help from contributors and sponsors, GITC places instruments in their hands along with resources to acquire more so that each student can learn to strum and sing at school.  Teachers are not asked to pay this, ever. We help them find resources and give everything we can. Your donations make this possible! Through GITC's free, inclusive approach, every student in participating classrooms learns to make music with their teacher.

DONATE & CHANGE LIVES TODAY
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Music Education with Music Integration - An Interdependent Vision

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​GITC believes that every student deserves a well-rounded education including weekly music integration for cross-curricular learning and also instruction in music taught by a credentialed music educator. We invite you to read up on the multitude of benefits in our blogs and also visit the NAMM Foundation website for music advocacy.

GITC stands with districts dedicated to strengthening their music education programs. We offer music faculties free training in our approach and select from among the participating music specialists, compassionate and patient instructors to teach music integration with GITC to their colleagues.  When music specialists and classroom teachers team up, they can build a culture of music together where hearts, minds, hands and hallways are filled with song. 

                               Contact Us

​Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom
National Headquarters
1286 University Ave, #389
San Diego, CA 92103

Office Line: (619) 578-2326 
​Cell:
(619-840-1010)
Email: info@guitarsintheclassroom.org
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