Students active in the Music and the Brain program have marked improvements in their executive functioning skills and character development, as well as their academic performance.
Principals, classroom and music teachers as well as students in schools where Music and the Brain is implemented have attested to numerous academic benefits of the program. Literacy and mathematical principles are embedded in our focus on students’ learning to read music during each lesson.
In July 2009, an independent research study conducted by Joseph M. Piro and Camilo Ortiz of Long Island University was published in Psychology of Music that found the Music and the Brain program to benefit literacy skills of vocabulary and verbal sequencing among participating 2nd Graders.