Our Equity Statement
From our early days, Guitars in the Classroom (GITC) has dedicated its efforts to advancing teacher and student learning and well-being by providing free teacher training in cross-curricular, integrated, hands-on music that includes every student.
We predominantly serve teachers and their students in Title I schools serving racially, economically, and culturally diverse communities, bringing to light the strengths, traditions, and creative contributions by BIPOC community members and artists.
GITC provides our training and teaching artist residencies along with access to instruments and supplies to program participants in classrooms from coast to coast, reaching students at promise, students of color, students whose first language is other than English, students with diverse sexual and gender identities, students with exceptionalities, and students who have arrived in this country as immigrants and refugees. GITC’s student-centered approach cultivates a culture of kindness, inclusivity, creativity, resilience, grit and artistry everywhere we serve.
GITC’s approach is geared to full inclusion for differently abled participants. This includes adaptive instruction for teachers and students. We adjust or adapt musical instruments to work for every student, differentiating instruction and playing techniques to work for whatever mobility, coordination, and cognitive abilities participants bring to the learning experience.
Organizationally, our staff and board members are skilled in consensus building, collaborative problem solving, and inclusive decision making in accordance with our core values of respect, empathy, tolerance, and the practice of active, non-judgmental listening.
We intentionally create communities throughout our organization in which individuals feel safe to express their experiences, feelings, and opinions, allowing those who have been negatively impacted by implicit bias and structural racism to openly speak their truth. We are enthusiastic participants in the movement to create a kind, just, inclusive, and caring society.
Guitars in the Classroom is committed to honoring the gifts, experiences, traditions, vulnerabilities, and wisdom that each person brings to learning to make, teach, share, and compose music for teaching and learning.
We predominantly serve teachers and their students in Title I schools serving racially, economically, and culturally diverse communities, bringing to light the strengths, traditions, and creative contributions by BIPOC community members and artists.
GITC provides our training and teaching artist residencies along with access to instruments and supplies to program participants in classrooms from coast to coast, reaching students at promise, students of color, students whose first language is other than English, students with diverse sexual and gender identities, students with exceptionalities, and students who have arrived in this country as immigrants and refugees. GITC’s student-centered approach cultivates a culture of kindness, inclusivity, creativity, resilience, grit and artistry everywhere we serve.
GITC’s approach is geared to full inclusion for differently abled participants. This includes adaptive instruction for teachers and students. We adjust or adapt musical instruments to work for every student, differentiating instruction and playing techniques to work for whatever mobility, coordination, and cognitive abilities participants bring to the learning experience.
Organizationally, our staff and board members are skilled in consensus building, collaborative problem solving, and inclusive decision making in accordance with our core values of respect, empathy, tolerance, and the practice of active, non-judgmental listening.
We intentionally create communities throughout our organization in which individuals feel safe to express their experiences, feelings, and opinions, allowing those who have been negatively impacted by implicit bias and structural racism to openly speak their truth. We are enthusiastic participants in the movement to create a kind, just, inclusive, and caring society.
Guitars in the Classroom is committed to honoring the gifts, experiences, traditions, vulnerabilities, and wisdom that each person brings to learning to make, teach, share, and compose music for teaching and learning.