We provide tools & training to create Trauma-Informed Music Classrooms

Every Student Deserves to be Safe & Seen

Students with trauma are often missed, underestimated, or labeled disinterested in learning. We believe a trauma-informed classroom is an equity-rooted classroom. Whether you are seeking tools for a new program, or strengthening an existing program, StringRise provides the training, tools, and resources needed to build thriving trauma-informed music programs. Scroll below to learn more about our work, and to set up a free consult.

Workshops & Professional Development

We equip music educators through professional development, consulting, and teacher training with high-quality resources for trauma-informed classrooms. We provide both short-term and long-term training options with services provided both virtually and in-person, tailored to your program’s needs. See our sessions below:

  • This clinic will empower educators to create music classrooms that are fundamentally trauma-informed by providing research-based practical tools and pedagogical approaches & sequencing that cultivate students’ safety and capacity to thrive. We will define trauma, discuss how to recognize trauma responses, and provide practical tools for regulating the nervous system. Through a vibrant and dynamic presentation utilizing slides, video, and group discussion, educators will be equipped with effective and innovative tools & strategies that create trauma-informed classrooms.

  • This clinic will empower educators to develop framework and language for identifying both social and individual traumas that contribute to the disruption of the brain’s ability to learn. By understanding how trauma is defined and how it manifests in the classroom, educators will gain confidence in how to create a safe space for students and cultivate relationships that foster and promote nervous system relaxation.

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  • This clinic will empower educators to build music classrooms that are fundamentally trauma-informed by providing practical tools and pedagogical approaches that cultivate students’ safety and capacity to thrive. StringRise CEO Nicole Melrose will share her own experience of working with systemically underserved students living with multiple intersecting traumas, as well as data and research on hope and resilience.

Crucial to a trauma-informed approach is creating sequencing and structure that allow the brain to feel safe as students move through the learning process. Box Instruments empower students for success and hope-building through incremental learning and high-quality sound production. When Box Instruments are used as part of a trauma-informed approach, students experience neuroplasticity, calmer nervous systems, and increased vagal tone. StringRise provides training and tools for sequencing for a trauma-informed classroom.

Box Instrument Kits for the Trauma-Informed Classroom

Our buildable Box Instrument kits are pre-prepared, mess-free, and ready to hand to students. Kits include notches and a bow guide that create gorgeous bow arms and a seamless transition to real instruments. Fractional to Full-Size available!

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