We Orchestrate Joy

Providing music as a path to resilience, joy, and mental health

View 2026 research initiative

6900+

educators transform their classrooms into more engaging, effective learning environments with Emotionally Intelligent Music.

Accessible

music curriculum helps nonverbal, special needs students read and write for the first time.

5500+

students in Music Deserts* get Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction

*Music Deserts: Refers to schools or communities, often in lower-income or marginalized areas, that lack access to music education resources, instruments, and certified instructors

Music access is uneven -

And It Matters

  • Music programs increasingly prioritize performance over emotional development.

  • Low-income districts average nearly 1,000 students per music teacher in parts of the Pacific Northwest and throughout rural California

  • Students facing economic stress are often the least likely to receive structured arts education.

Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction

EIMI reframes music education from performance production to human development.

Curriculum

Developmentally sequenced lessons that teach musical skill alongside persistence, curiosity, emotional regulation, and resilience.

Teacher Training

Live training and asynchronous modules equip educators to deliver music as a tool for cognitive and emotional growth, without the need for expensive specialists

Music is the method.

Classroom Work

Structured integration into daily instruction, with measurable indicators tied to literacy, engagement, and classroom climate.

Whole, healthy students are the outcome.

What happens when music is taught this way

Literacy improvements follow music-based reading instruction

Communication breakthroughs happen for students with disabilities

Increased classroom engagement and self-regulation become the norm

Cross-disciplinary transfers occur to mathematics and problem-solving

How do we know? Because we’ve achieved…

6,900+ educators trained across two continents

What people are saying

  • In traditional programs, the music is the product, and the humans are just the means to achieve it. In [this] program, whole, healthy humans are the product, and the music is the means.

    Charlee Eaves

    Saxophone Professor, Old Dominion University, Virginia

  • I’m so happy we have this program, because there is music in my classroom where there wasn’t before, and my kids needed it. I didn’t know how bad they needed it.

    Heather Hiatt

    Grades 4-6 Classroom Guide: Lupine Community Montessori Charter School, Oregon

  • The longer I've studied math and physics, the more I've realized their connections in my own cognition to music. Piano, like math, requires its learners to make mistakes on a daily basis and meet them with curiosity.

    Miller Nelson

    Applied Physics Major, Oregon State University

  • I Am Music Programme has impacted my learners positively, and the love of music has really developed its root in their hearts.

    John Njuguna

    Music Program Lead: Mirema School, Nairobi Kenya

How We Orchestrate Joy

Equip

We equip schools with instruments, online support and curriculum.

Provide

We provide teachers training and scholarships to learn Emotionally Intelligent Music.

Connect

We connect schools from around the world to learn music together.

2025-6

Development and Relationship Building

In 2025-2026, we are excited to

  • Complete our curriculum,

  • Produce our asynchronous training videos during our summer camp, and

  • Connect with carefully selected districts and schools for partnership.

2027-9

Start work with 5 Districts and 3 Universities

With the right support, we will start working with carefully selected partners.

As our impact grows and our donors see results, we will continue to invite more districts and universities to apply for training and supplies.

2030+

Partner with New Disciplines

We will work to expand EIMI into subjects like mathematics, sports, and literacy.

Orchestrate Joy With Us

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