Gifted Education Conference features Kids Like Blues Band’s work!
Posted by Jon Schwartz, Teacher/Guitarist in the Kids Like Blues Band on March 15th, 2013 with 0 Comments
The Kids Like Blues Band‘s work was recently featured at the California Association for the Gifted “Magic of The Mind” 51st Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. Kids Like Blues guitarist and classroom teacher Jon Schwartz was the featured presenter at the workshop “Using the Performing Arts to Teach The Academic Standards“. He shared videos that the class has worked on, which illustrate how they use classic American blues music to teach language arts, English fluency, US History, technology like blogs and Photoshop, the visual and performing arts, and self-esteem. Although we’re known to many as the “World’s Youngest Blues Band”, our performing
