Teaching English Through Music: GITC Music Integration at Fay Elementary School

​For 16 years both Jennifer Youngblood and Rosanna De La Cruz have been teaching young students in San Diego. Many of those years have been spent at Fay Elementary, a majority Hispanic school in the San Diego Unified School District. BoJennifer Youngblood and Rosanna De La Cruzth Jennifer and Rosanna teach diverse classes, with many English Language Learner students. Learning how to best reach these students can be a challenge, but through Guitars in the Classroom Jennifer and Rosanna have found that music can be the answer.

​Jennifer originally started with GITC in 2010, after seeing an email sent to her school about the organization. She had grown up surrounded by music and even pursued various classes on different instruments, but hadn’t fulfilled her desire to play guitar until starting with GITC. She took a break after a year and a half with the organization, then rejoined with Rosanna 2 years ago.

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