Meet Ms. Elisa!

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Ms. Elisa's practical and theoretical focus is on how music can improve children's learning process. Her vanguard approach combines teaching strategies from Music Therapy with methods and approaches to music education. Her objective is to nurture children's growth. One of her goals is to structure musical activities so every child is an equal and successful participant in sound creation and re-creation in a place for discoveries and music making.

After receiving a degree in Music Therapy at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music, Ms. Elisa did post-graduate studies at California State University-Hayward in Special Education. Her monograph focused on how music can improve children's learning. After graduating, she worked at a district school in Hayward with children who had learning problems and at the University Children's Center as a Music Specialist and Toddler teacher.

Ms. Elisa has also taken classes in Early Childhood Education at Chabot College, CA, and was awarded a Master's Degree in Education from Framingham College, MA. She has taken Orff for Preschool at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, Level I at Florida State University (FSU)-Tallahassee, Level II at FSU-Gainesville, FL, Level III at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, Kodály training at New York University and Kindermusik I and II training in a international seminar Jacksonville, FL.

"For a young child to thrive, the child needs to be loved, held, talked to, read to, sung to and allowed to explore."