Music for Every Student
Music for Minors is a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping music in elementary schools. For nearly five decades, we’ve partnered with Bay Area schools to ensure all children have access to weekly music instruction in their classrooms.
Program Highlights
Weekly Sequential Curriculum
Students build musical skills through engaging, developmentally appropriate lessons.
Standards-Based and Culturally Responsive
Our curriculum meets state and national standards with music from over 40 diverse musical traditions and cultures.
Trained Music Educators
Our dedicated music educators bring expertise, creativity, and passion to every class. Learn more about our Educators
Weekly Sequential Curriculum
MFM students build musical skills step-by-step and grade-by-grade, through singing, song-based children’s media, rhythm instruments, movement, and instrumental instruction. Our curriculum includes songs from more than 40 countries and regions
Why recorders?
In 3rd grade, students start learning the recorder, an easy-to-play, lightweight instrument. It teaches reading musical notes and playing in a group, while laying the foundation for learning other instruments.
See the recorder in action: enjoy this Scots tune and this Baroque sonata.
Music and the brain
Educator Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play music and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
A nonprofit driven by impact:
Every aspect of our program is designed to ensure every student has access to music education.