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I'm Julia, as you probably guessed, and I run a family engagement nonprofit organization called Sparkler as well as the Big Part World social and Emotional Learning Initiative. In collaboration with Sean and Michael. And I am so excited to be here with you this afternoon. We are going to talk about how you can use music and movement to support children, social and emotional development and we are going to have a behind the scenes look. With Big Heartbeats album which is a fun new lineup of social and emotional learning songs created by Noggin, we're going to hear from Sean and Michael who created the album. And from some of the amazing artists who composed and performed the songs, there will be plenty of time for discussion with you about the practical applications. How, how do you and can you use music to grow kids big hearts so I know that you're probably already doing this, and I haven't looked yet, but please share your thoughts and comments in the Q&A. As we go. So we are going to start with a few questions and we're going to save your responses and talk them through during the Q&A, which we'll get to at the end. So this is the first question we are wondering, do you use music and movement within your classroom and how? Oops. Sorry. Is that supposed to go forward? Oops. Did I leave enough time here? OK, maybe I did, sorry. OK, so the second question. Was our music and movement part of your social and emotional learning instruction and and how often? Sorry, I don't know what's going on with this. I'm not touching it. Somebody, did somebody else go through all the? Is somebody touching this? Yep, there it's back, thank you. OK, this is the. This is the. This is a question about how you get music that you use in your classroom. Great, and then we'll give a couple more seconds there and then. When you finish, we're just going to ask you to type into the group chat box. What your favorite songs are to use as part of instruction and we will if it's a good playlist, which I'm sure we'll be. We'll share it with you later so everybody can refer to. Refer back to it. OK. OK, so I already introduced myself so. Sean and Michael, do you want to say a quick hello before we get into the substance? Here hey of course. OK, it's fine, sorry, go ahead, Michael. You're at the top. I shouldn't be hello everybody. Hi, you're my lesson friends. Good afternoon I'm Michael Lillian I head up learning and impact at at Nagano. Really looking forward to this conversation with Sean and Julia Sean. Hi everybody, my name is Sean Farrell and I head up our content and strategy group at Noggin and I get the privilege of working with an incredible group of animators and writers and producers to produce content for kids. I'm really excited about our chats. Awesome, so we're also going to hear from some artists, including Alex Gangus, and Will Fuller at Chris Sarnell Florida Day to watch it. And also my colleague, Dana, who's a longtime educator. So I am going to attempt to press forward here and turn it back over to Michael. Thanks, Julia. As educators, I think we all know the value of social and emotional learning skills. I'm in that noggin and if you're wondering what noggin is, we're one of the nation's leading early learning platforms for pre and primary age kids. We've developed a new learning program called Naggins Big Hearts. It's tailored to the needs of families and children today. I'd say two years into the pandemic, millions of children, if not more, have been forced to miss school and had experienced unfortunately heart wrenching losses and injustices in their communities so the skills necessary for managing feelings, listening, sharing, showing empathy and making thoughtful, responsible choices. Or perhaps more important now than ever. In noggins Big hearts program, SL skills are broken into three major buckets. Awareness of self awareness of others and relationships, and by this we mean the skills within each bucket all contribute to a child's understanding of first. Who are they? Second, how do they relate to others and 3rd, how they experienced the world around them and all the relationships within them. Social emotional development in the early years provides a critical foundation for lifelong development and learning. In is arguably the most important skill set to help children advance in our global economy. As Julie and Sean will describe in just a few moments, we've taken the big heart learning goals and made tangible resources you all can use starting tomorrow, if not tonight. Through the power of music and coalition building with many other organizations that share our commitment, we've built a whole new CL destination. So in today's presentation, we're going to share that world with you and we hope you will agree. We have an amazing array of new resources that are all for your use, anytime, anywhere, and best of all for free next one. So the big Heart World website, which sparkler created along with Noggin Zero to three national Head Start Association first book SLJ and many other wonderful partner organizations, is a hub as Michael said where you can find all the music that we're going to talk about from the big Heart Beats album. Plus many other resources for parents and educators including offscreen playtime learning activities, book lists from our partners, interactive activities, podcasts and parent and educator guides. And as Michael said, everything is free and designed to help kids develop self-confidence. Self awareness and appreciation for others and strong relationships. This this shows the the line up the framework that everything is based on, so the content that we offer on the on the site lines up with the learning French framework that Michael described. And when we launched Big Heart World last April, so a little less than a little less than a year ago we started with a focus on self. So we explored identity and belonging, feelings and similarities and differences and then we created a lineup of content around awareness of others, friendship, empathy and problem solving. Finally, we work with our partners to create resources around, helping upstanding and global citizenship. And each of these themes is rooted in a song from the album. Featuring a new set of diverse animated kids called the Big Heart Kids, as well as favorite noggin characters like the Paw Patrol, Blues clues and bubble guppies. And now I'm going to pass it back to Michael to explore the link between music and social emotional learning. Thanks Julia, and there is powerful research from scholars you know across the globe on the value of music and creating a healthier, more flexible brain for our children and then laying the foundation for, you know, learning throughout a lifetime. In research parlance, the use of music both for pure fun and in educational settings helps create cognitive flexibility and enhances other multidisciplinary skills like creativity that are critical to help children. Compete and cooperate in the global community. I'm next one Julia. So, singing, making music and moving to music, I think you all know all of you who've worked with children naturally supports their development and the development of important CL skills, self-confidence, self regulation, interpersonal social skills like sharing and turn taking, cooperating with others, and solving problems are also enhanced with effective music education. Next one, please. Here you see the Canadian music experts Matt Yanko and Priscilla Yap have a really interesting quote on the on. On the left side of this of this slide, it really is. These experiences can necessitate with music, and it can really help kids acquire essential behavioral and emotional capabilities. A few fun facts and figures to consider that some of these might be really, you know, somewhat surprising. Two newborns are able to identify rhythms and melodies. Heard in the womb. Really interesting fact. Music is, you know, sort of a a social connector, a currency to connect across generations. Children as young as three of the research says, can notice emotions in songs you notice feelings and clips that are just upbeat long. They're you know, half a second long, I mean music instruction. Really, as I suggested before, is a very, very strong way of helping kids develop working memory and establish what we. Yeah, we start two as executive functioning skills. It's my pleasure to pass the baton on to my colleague Sean to discuss the album that he helped to create. John great. Thank you Michael. You know, as Michael said, we've integrated a yearlong social and emotional learning program into our offering that also includes all the other areas like math and literacy and social studies for kids age three to five. When we first sat down to figure out how do we best introduce these SCL concepts? And themes the kids through nog, and we immediately gravitated towards music. I had it just shout out a second ago to my daughter who's singing Broadway show. Tune upstairs that I was about to speak so kids is just so natural for them to just sing and lean into music. But really importantly, we wanted to create songs that families could enjoy, and classrooms could enjoy together and our one of our requirements was that families would be eager to roll down the windows of their car and turn up the music and be and love listening to it, or have a dance party in the living room. That was the challenge that we put together to these songwriters. You know, just like my family rotates through songs from Encanto and trolls and sing too, and gas frozen is, however, long. Many years ago. Was still in rotation in our car and so we got the opportunity to reach out to an incredible set of artists to really ask them what song would you write on a particular theme that you would enjoy with your family and the result was this incredible set of songs that they came back with. And so there was a specific design behind these songs. One we wanted them to have a very simple and clear hook aligned to be remembered by the listener. Something for the kid. To really have in their mind for them to remember, you can imagine that as a line that might be on a T shirt or on a poster or something that's iconic. Next is we wanted to make sure it had a simple melody. Something was really memorable. And finally, for most of these songs we developed music videos as well for for kids to be able to see these things in action, and that's because we wanted kids to be able to experience this music across a multitude of ways. We wanted them to hear it. We wanted them to see it. We wanted them to sing it. We wanted them to dance to it and the whole purpose of that is we wanted to make it easier and more productive for kids to be able to talk about it. So if families have these songs at home or or if if educators have these in the classroom, how can this music help facilitate more conversations with kids? So we're going to take a look at a couple of these songs. This is the list of tracks that are here. You can tell from each of the title. These are some of the hook lines like nobody else. I love myself. How you feel these are the things that are embedded within the song and we're going to take a look at two of these. The first song we're going to take a look at. We're not gonna watch the video, we're just gonna sit and listen to it. In this applet titled is called The Sad Song, and We're going to ask a couple questions afterwards. Two as Poles and one is the chat and the first one will just be sort of. You know, I might I sort of expect your answer on the first one, but I think it's important to ask all of the incredible educators on the line right now. Do you? Or your students ever have sad days? And how does this song make you feel? And then we'd love to really chat about how could this song help children process those types of emotions, so you know, if you can sit back. Close her eyes and just listen would be great. Feeling some kind of way. Again, I just can't get out, it feel sad and that's OK. It's normal to feel this way. Yes, the sad song and we sing it together. It's a sad song soon will be feeling better because we all know feelings come and go sad song is what we're seeing today. It helps to say out loud. I'm sad as talking it through with somebody. If you just want to cry or maybe roar like a lion stretch from your toes to your pinkies. Hug up I love kitties. How do you feel today tomorrow's a new day coming if you feel sad then that's OK. It's normal to feel this way. It's a sad song. Can we sing it together? It's a sad song. Because we all know feelings come and go bad. Dad, mom. Sad. Singing today. Awesome, thanks so much. So we'll just ask these these quick questions. Do you or your students ever have sad days? Step everybody a second to respond. Alright, let's take a look at the results. I think that'll be on the next slide, yeah? Yes, 100% yeah it's. We all have sad days. I had one this morning with my two daughters and it was a sad morning for them. We all have them. Next, next question. How does this song make you feel when you're listening to him? It will give happy, sad, relieved, peaceful or other. Alright. Let's see, let's see the results here. Happy yeah, and and you know the song is not intended to try to convince kids to be happy if they're sad, but it is trying to communicate that we all we all do have these feelings. That's OK and I think what we've seen in practice is kids have been. Requesting this song, if they're feeling sad to listen to it, to hear that message again, and to be able to just. Listen to it and know that it's OK. These feelings will come and go, and that's part of being part of being a kid and adult. So we'll in the chat. We have a third question which if you have time to just put in. How could the song help children process their emotions or their feelings of feeling sad but great to get your input in terms of how you think this might be able to be used, we'd love to hear that. So give folks a second as we go on to the next slide here, and we're going to take a look at a second song. And this song is called like nobody else, and this was actually the first song in in that we released, and it was all around self identity and building confidence in helping kids to recognize things in them in themselves that they're proud of and and standing up for them. And so we'll go ahead and take a look at this music video. So this was a song that's released as a song by itself, and we also worked on some video kids. Yeah, I'm like nobody else, nobody else I'm like nobody else like nobody else, yeah. Got my hair high feeling so alive got my own vibe and it's so nice. Welcome to my world yeah this is my life when I look in the mirror feeling so right I know I can make life better just being myself together. Show this world. Feel so good about myself. Yeah, I'm like nobody else, nobody else I'm like nobody else, nobody else. I'm like nobody else, nobody else I'm like nobody else like nobody else. I love my skin. Love who I am. I never say can't because I know I can. I love my big smile I like my hairstyle. I wear colorful shoes I feel so cool my happy shines bright I'm living love life Oh yeah, so where you smile loud never forget everybody say your pride. I feel good. I feel great. That's me, that's me walking with my own vibe. Yeah, yeah. I feel so good. Like nobody else like nobody else. Cancel. It's so good. Nobody else like nobody else. I'm like nobody else like nobody else. Thanks so much. Yeah so that that song it was we really were working in the video to have a sense of confidence as kids were walking down the street and to really take away that line of. I'm like me and like nobody else I feel good about myself and I saw a bunch of comments about the last time about ways that you can stop different songs at certain places and talk about the sentence. That was just said and that's that's really the the the purpose of these songs. Is to help facilitate conversations, help kids express themselves. Talk through these things, you know I've, we believe that's where the power of this song is to just facilitate more ways for kids to talk. But what's really exciting is we get to hear from some of the artists who wrote these songs, and that was so exciting for us. We really connected them with our learning team, but really let them right and and pour themselves into it. And so we got a chance to sit down with them and ask them some questions about what that meant to them. So I'll turn it over to Julia to help us go through those. So this is, I think the best part of today's session because we are going backstage with the artists. So first we are going to listen to three of the creative teams behind the big heart beats Beats Album talk about what growing big hearts means to them. And as we listen it would be great if you could think about how you could apply what they say in your classrooms. And you can share that in the chat. Feel so good about myself. Yeah, I'm like nobody else, nobody else I'm like nobody else like nobody else, yeah. Hold my head high feeling so alive got my own vibe and it's so nice welcome to my world yeah this is my life when I look in the mirror feeling so right. It's, you know. I feel like we're living in a weird world. I mean, there's so much going on currently. The war in Ukraine. You know, I'm half Russian and border Ukraine and it's super hard to see that it's weird coming out of a pandemic racism everywhere. I mean, the last years showed us where we stand and I feel like growing big big hearts is the opportunity to give something to our kids which which can help them just become. Better at what our generation and the generations before that didn't get really right. Yeah, means opportunity. It means having having these kids feel needed. You know, yes. Feel like they're they're wanted and to give them confidence to go out there and do whatever they dream of doing it, you know. Oh, let's take this important. It didn't write that answer at home, right? I did. We're all connected. We're all part of the same world, and so we're here to support each other, celebrate our cultures and come together and be there for each other. So to me, having a big heart means having room in your heart in your life, for a diverse set of ideas and people and feelings, friends, music, traditions, foods, really anything, and everything. It means welcoming all kinds of things into your world and your life. Loving and accepting all kinds of people, being willing to try new things. Giving people the benefit of the doubt. Celebrating differences that people have helping people, having compassion, putting others before yourself and having a big heart is important for both kids and grownups. Oops. So I wrote the songs how you feel and celebrate our difference. How you feel was largely inspired by my daughters Avelina Nyla, who are now five and three. The range of emotions that children have is immense. One minute it's you know frustrations and tantrums. The next, it's hugs and love and everything is great. I guess it's not that different for adults too, but with my daughters as inspiration I wondered what it would sound like if I recorded all of the music. On their toy instruments, here's like little guitar that they have. What else we got here, kazoo. Woodblock frog woodblock, melodica. So, I created this song using exclusively their instruments, and I was like, OK, this is something that they can really connect with because it's their instrument. So I pulled all those and created the music. And then when my Co writer Grayson and I got together, we focused on really capturing the types of feelings that kids and adults have and we try to work those into the lyrics of the song. Are you free? Turns out feel happy. Sometimes. She said. Makes it a lot less. These emotions are for real. It's OK. Are you free? It's OK. It's a pain. So on that one we just heard Chris Cornell, who's one of the artists talking about how he used his kids instruments to create. One of the songs which gave me a lot of ideas 'cause I never had any idea that my kids instruments were so powerful. He's he's any and it's so I think I hope that it gives you some ideas too. And the next video is the last of our behind the scenes interviews with the artists and in it you'll hear Chris again as well as will and Alex talk about how music relates to social and emotional learning for them and also for the kids in their lives. Both creating music and listening to music has helped me build my own social and emotional skills as a creator. I often have some combination of excitement and fear every single time I start a new project. I'm excited to have a blank canvas and think about like oh, and you know, for three hours I'm going to have this new song that didn't exist. You know right now, but I'm also like, wait, what if I'm not able to create anything? What if what I create is no good? What if nobody likes it and so it's it's excitement and fear every single time. To this day. But I know that these emotions are going to come and I'm now I'm I'm comfortable with. OK, no, they're here. I acknowledge them. I sit with them for a second and then I dance with them and we create and you know, eight out of 10 times I create something I'm excited about. And even if I don't, it's like, hey, I still at least created something new that didn't exist 3 hours ago. Music can absolutely help kids to process, comprehend and feel their emotions as well. Could be a lyric in a song that teaches them it's OK to have a certain type of feeling. It's OK to not always be happy. It's OK to have fun and dance. It can teach them that not everyone will always feel the same way that they do about something they can learn to accept that I feel exactly like this question is about music, right? For me, music is a feeling. And it doesn't. It doesn't matter. I can be listening to A to a giant music that I never listened to before, but I get a feeling from it, you know, and I feel like that way. Music music helped change the world. You know, I I feel it's it's a feeling. It's true for me too. But it's also a language which everyone understands. Like you know, even though you don't know, oh, you might not know it. C major going to major like it's specific language nerds. Nerds, but what it does to feel, and that's something where we all can unite. There's lots of times when listen to a song, and I think, wow, that that song spoke just, you know, spoke to my heart. It's exactly what I'm feeling at the moment. I wasn't able to put it into words until I heard that lyric. And now I've got, you know, words to say and and it just I feel like somebody understands how I feel. That's one of the beautiful things about music. I can't listen to my favorite song and not move. Yeah, yes, right away you have to suffer like I feel like they're connected and and that that means that you're connected emotionally. You know to the song as well and I I feel like you know the big hearts album. There's so many great songs in there, but it's specifically like like nobody else. I feel like you know when I let my 11 year old daughter here. She immediately started dancing to it. And immediately after the first time here, they start repeating the lyrics, yes, so she connected emotionally right away to the movement through the movement. Yeah, and I believe that that's so important for kids, especially in the development age. I honestly believe that kids don't move to move music that they're not emotionally connected to right away, right? OK, so before we kick off the discussion, we're going to hear from my colleague Dana Stewart, who is sparklers Director of Learning and has been a preschool teacher and school leader for more than 20 years, and she's going to share some of her ideas on ways to use music in preschool classrooms and. And hopefully then we will have a robust conversation about how you want to use it in any question. As an early childhood educator with more than 20 years of experience, both as a preschool teacher and school leader, I can tell you that music is an integral part of any quality preschool program. We have a song to have a 5 minute warning. We have another song to help children clean up. We have another song to help transition them from place to place and we even play quiet music to signal when it's time to rest. But one of my favorite ways to incorporate music into a preschool classroom is with a dance party, perfect for rainy days and great, not just because we get to see their adorable dance moves, but also because it helps children practice a whole host. Social, emotional and interpersonal skills, whether they're coordinating their dance moves to move along with a partner or simply watching and learning new moves from one another, they might be problem solving and negotiating on how to share space or moving their bodies differently to different types of music. Dancing together is a great way to support children's development. And I love myself. I won't compare myself to anybody else, don't know anybody else because I love. Fancy designs with social and emotional themes like those in the Big Heartbeats album, is an added bonus because as children learn the lyrics, they begin to internalize those messages and then you, as the teacher can reference the same lyrics. At other times of day to reinforce learning as the need arises. Thanks so much Dana for that really really compelling. Advice we've put a lot on your plate and I hope that you've enjoyed the presentation so far. But now is the time for you to get involved in the conversation. I think you guys may recall at the beginning we asked you some poll questions and through the magic of Julia, we're going to go back to those results maybe. So that you can see what you had to say. Well. Maybe here we go. I really liked what Dana had to say about the various ways in which she uses music in the classroom. The five minute warning the dance party transitions rest time. Let's take a look at the data here. Oh wow. There's a 3 way tie. Clean up quiet time transition time. With the. A distant dance party. Very, very interesting. Does anybody want to sort of illustrate in them in the chat box? How they're using music during transition time and quiet time or or clean up time or particular kind of music? Particular length of time that you're using the music. I'm really interested in the transition time. No idea, so just chat your thoughts there as we go back to some other questions now. So you can go back to the other slide. Oh, I'm sorry, oh so yeah, it's it's it's. Music is popular. Half of you say often. OK. YouTube is the most popular. No surprise to me there. YouTube is so. Ubiquitous followed. I Spotify or Amazon and websites that have curriculum materials interesting that only one in 10 about one in nine said live instruments. I guess it's just really hard. To walk the live instruments into the into the classroom, school budgets are not substantial for music in the classroom that I know. Be interested if folks wanted to chat with the other with the other category was that was. Posted there so yeah, but here a little bit about your ideas. Not that easy to have a dialogue, just in the chat box, but let's try. Do you have any new ideas from what you heard or saw today about how you'd like to use the music and movement in your classroom? Are there other resources that you would like you know, not in and others to provide sparkler to help you incorporate the music into your instruction on that one? Julia? Maybe you want to say a few words about what? Sparkler has available in terms of the materials that are available on. The Big Heart World Network site, but let's let's see whether or not we're gonna get some comments here. I love the line up song. I want to hear about that one. Michael, there was another interesting quote in the chat box about the benefits of potentially hearing or showing the students the videos of. The musicians who wrote the songs talking about their thoughts about when they read music. Sometimes they struggle to write something or are worried or scared. It might not be good and it's it's. It's interesting for them to hear from the creators as well. Uh-huh I also saw an interesting comment about sharing the music with the parents during parent teacher conferences to help connect. Homes with schools. Now, Jackie Ray yeah Julia Jackie ray. Thanks for that comment about using yoga music to calm kids down and prepare them for transition. Some eggnog and we're showing you want to mention the new yoga resource that we're developing right now. Oh yeah, we have a new yoga class called Yoga Friends which is a new series where kids can learn the basics of yoga with their Nick Junior friends. But it's intended to create a habit for kids to be able to practice with their families throughout the week. Yeah, knowing Scott your your comment about an actual instrument, the students hands really resonates. You know with me, there's nothing like practicing and just, you know, feeling the creativity of having an instrument in your hands. Was it you who also, I think asked the question about whether these songs are, you know, to be played in class along with an SCL group discussion or assignment. If it was you or you know just any other Scott, it's in the audience. Noggin is a resource that's available. Mostly for families right now, like direct into the home. It's an app and it's available on, you know, just about any platform you can imagine later on in the presentation, we're going to tell you. How to get noggin? You know for for free, for your for you, for your families, but right now we don't have a school product. It's something that Sean and I are sort of trying to, you know, figure out as we speak so we are developing a noggin for school. Stay tuned on that. And one thing to in the in the short run you can access everything that we've talked about here on this. I'll put it into the chat on this special web page that we created where you can get the videos with the artists. You can get a learning guide that we'll talk about in a second. You can get. You can play all of the songs either from Spotify or just stream them on the website or watch the music videos. For those that have music videos, there's a lot of resources there for you in the short term, including free noggin if you want it, but we'll get there in a moment and then longer term. Michael and Sean are cooking up something amazing for schools. Specifically, I love the comment about classical music. Cornelia Jean. We should be thinking about doing something that's more meditative and there's lots of resources you know and knocking in addition to the yoga that. Are about mindfulness and you know, stress reduction, kinds of resources which we know are very, very valuable to families into classrooms. These days yeah, there's a series that we have called imagination trips, which is helping children to practice deep breathing and slowing down. And you know, I I believe it's on YouTube as well, but it's it really helps kids to focus on their breathing and travel to places as they slow down and breathe. And we've been really seeing kids and families be able to do it. Together and to break it out whenever they need it. Ask her I love your comment about singing questions and having students sing their responses. And that's really not only a a musical skill, but certainly a literacy and a kind of a storytelling skill that's wonderful. I used to be a cantar in church, so it reminds me it reminds me of the singing, just it's it's not easy to do, but I love that idea. I would love to see them in practice in in here with those sound like it's really cool. I love this comment about Baroque music. Also, Scott. And death finding things in nature or inspiring lyrics and making simple instruments. Yeah, I mean there's so many creative ways in which we can use it just to be really clear about. You know how knowledge and can be used. We are working, you know, with different schools and classrooms around the country, from the reasons why the FT and chairman lesson asked us to present today where you know, working with the Apple Tree Charter school network and. DC New York and and in Texas and. If any of you are interested in using the resources that we have or talking to us about how to incorporate the music into, you know curriculum will give you ways to be in touch with us because we're we're really actively trying to develop our resources for for educator cycle sales. Well, actually one last question here was can music you know? How can music bridge homes in classrooms? Do any of you guys send music home as kind of part of the way in which you communicate with families? Not seeing a response to that, that's OK. Vocabulary yeah, we've got a new line, a new music series which is teaching vocabulary. Some of you may have been on last night, and if not you can watch. ***** Weingarten and Makita. Mays Green from Nickelodeon had a session with Darryl McDaniels. He of the. Iconic rap group run DMC. Daryl has a new series that Joanne is arranged which is called what's the word? We can put a we can put a link to one of the clips from YouTube that you all may enjoy. It's very very fine way of using spoken word to teach vocabulary and early literacy skills. One videos are sent out. One other question, sorry. I mean, there's one question that we wrote on this slide that we're just really curious what you as educators could use to what would help you to do more to incorporate music into your classroom. What do you lacking? What gaps do you see? And while you all are responding, let's take a couple of questions. Nicole Golden will get to your question, how can we gain access to this in just a moment we've got something special for you. Beth Carter thank you for your compliment about these being, you know, fun tunes and videos, but you're thinking of the kids who don't have access to cell phones and those who are struggling. You know, with language, I guess you're asking us whether or not we can do more to make music available through that, sure, but other means besides, you know apps. One thing that most families do have access to, and perhaps Sean. You can comment on this is I saw. You know, in the poll that most of the teachers and most of the families use YouTube, you know, pretty prominently in getting access. We are developing a new YouTube channel which will make available many of the resources that we're talking about today, showing you wanted to say a little bit about the plan for that. Yes, the YouTube plan yes, so we think we're born more of the content in the shorts and the videos that we've been producing are soon to be on a dedicated channel on YouTube. Specifically organized for teachers, and categorized against standards and their curriculum. So we're really excited in the upcoming months, and so you'll be able to spot that up here on youtube.com/login, and that'll be again a free resource. And we're really trying to group those videos around the different subject areas and additional suggestions and tips and the descriptions of the videos that are there. Yeah, so you know, stay tuned later on in this spring there already is a very popular Nick Junior on YouTube. You know free site has 23 million subscribers, but because a lot of that is, I mean it's a wonderful entertainment. But because it's not as explicitly intentional for use in the classroom, not in team is using. You know our materials to create a special educator facing site, so that will certainly be available within. The next 6 to 8 weeks. Uhm? I'm looking at all the different chats here. Thanks thanks Dan for the comment about working with special needs kids. And it's certainly something that we're doing more thinking about to, you know, for us and. Really, really helpful. Thanks Sandra for your comment about YouTube sites. Agree that gonoodle also provides, you know, really interesting. Materials. Their abuse. You know what? Let's reveal to Nicole and others. Julia the. Big treat that we have in store for you. OK so we have created this learning guide which we are excited to share with you and I already shared the URL but I'll put it in the chat again so you can click right over to it and get it and there's a QR code on the next screen as well and we I think in the chat we tried to pre summarize what you all would say and you said so much more. I know I've learned a huge amount from watching everybody's ideas. You've shared in the chat and we've talked about playing songs, some dance parties. Although it looked like from the pole, there could be more dance parties in this world. Obviously Sean talked a lot about talking about the lyrics, going like thinking about what they mean, and thinking about how kids can relate to them. Playing with the music, so in this guide you'll find a whole each of all of the music links to the songs, the lyrics, and a bunch of play activities for each one, which are sort of jumping off places that you in the classroom or parents at home could use to play and continue learning about these lessons of the songs. So we hope you'll try them out and then obviously as we saw from Chris in his tiny instruments, kids can create their own music just with their voices, or like clapping or with toy instruments. Anything really will work, or even things that aren't instruments like boxes of dry pasta are great, so there's a lot that all of us can do to start thinking about how to bring more music into classrooms and make it available to kids and help it become part of their overall learning. But also really thinking about this idea. We talked about today about social and emotional learning. Uhm? And dumb. This is the QR code. If you get out your phone and scan your screen, you should go right to the page where you can find this guy and other resources including the videos and everything that we shared. And I'm continuing to watch the chat, which is so interesting. I never thought about using music as part of swim, but that's such a cool idea. Language another great idea. Right? And this. Michael just put in. Well, this is different, but on this page if you go to this special page, Michael is kindly giving you access to a special promotion where you can get free noggin. So the learning app from login free for six months so it Michael do you want to say more about that? Sure, yeah, no. I'm actually I'm glad that yeah, this is. This is the best link to go to for the FT community. So if you go to noggin.com we might try to get you. Sign up, sign up, you know not for free. So this is the best way to go. Yeah, no, we're we're making you know. Knocking free for six months for everyone who's in the share my lesson community. It's usually a subscription. That's $7.00. In $0.99 a month, so it's a good savings for you guys and during the course of the time that you'll have access to it for free, there'll be a whole range of other free resources available on bigheartworld.org and on YouTube for educators, so we'd love to get you guys interested in what we're doing, and we want to be generous to educate us because we know that really, really tough work that you do every day and just our concern that you have whatever resources. You need to do that tough job. So I think we're pretty much at where at less than a minute from the end of this session, but it's been so great getting to hang out with all of you this afternoon, and we are so appreciative of your great ideas and great questions and we'd love to have you used these resources and share them with fellow educators and tell us how it goes and if there's anything else that you need that could help you incorporate more music. Into your work. So thank you. And do and and just I wanna add my thanks to everyone into the FT in particular in Joanna for moderating this session. Check out our other music that we're presenting and providing online. You can cheer out. You can check out the run through time series, which features Chris Jackson. We did a session for share my lesson last year that you all might want to sign up for around. Chris Jackson is wonderful. Music on Ryan St Times which is. You know African American historic figures? You know, very, very fun and interesting. Play Video Music, video, and then we're also doing a whole range of other music, including podcasts and other series that if you sign up for noggin, you'll get to know. So thanks so much to Julia and Sean, do you want to say goodbye? Thank you so much again and as I've taken note of a bunch of suggestions and ways to use this content, this it's really valuable and I think that this we're gonna just continue to work to weed those insights into the content that we make and just excited to hear back more about how you've enjoyed using it, thanks. Thanks friends, oh you have one last poll. Thanks to everyone for joining and thanks for these resources. I'm sure everyone is really excited that they have this special access. Thank you to the audience and now we just have one short reminder video before we closeout. Please be sure to download your certificates and enjoy the rest of your evening and the rest of virtual conference. Take care everyone. Hi everyone. 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