Strategic Planning
The Three Phases of Ongoing Development, 2010-2015
In deepening the work of the MIENC, we are now prioritizing elements in research-based program development. We are resolving features of our schematic design, testing out what works in professional learning exchanges, creating a new architecture of leadership, and developing model programs based on the best data available from our network applications.
Our strategic plan is based on the Overall Theme:
Advancing Music in Changing Times: Optimizing and Sustaining Innovative Music-in-Education Practices as a Strategy for Improved School Culture and Performance in academics, the arts, social-emotional development and positive school culture.
Phase One: January – December 2010 Reestablishment of MIENC at the MOG
The next 12 months will represents a period of relocation, regrouping, and a renewed focus for the Music-in-Education National Consortium (MIENC), partnerships in research within its Learning Laboratory School Action Research Network (LLSN), and its relationship with the Music-in-Education Research & Development Center (MIERDC) at the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
Learn more about Phase One here.
Phase Two: January 2011 – July 2012 Beginnings of Expansion of MIENC Practices in Regional Centers
Through new funding for national and local partnership initiatives the MIENC expands it membership and dissemination. The initiatives will focus on the value of MIENC projects to be guided by MLL research-based practices and and access to MIENC open-source tools and materials. The MIENC will allows individual sites to adapt all previous resources in return for shared documentation and adaptation of all resources, and access to data for analysis of the overall impact of MIENC practices in each local regional center. Research questions about expansion of dissemination practices into large-scale network will lead to new understanding of the building blocks, results, transitional phases of MIENC methodology. A new set of results will address questions about M+MI teaching and learning practices, music learning leadership models, white paper and web-based publications, PD outcomes, impact on quality and range of student work impact, innovative rigorous assessment models, and research studies that define new standards of interdisciplinary learning and teaching in public schools.