On Dec. 23, 2007, Keyboards For Kids gave sincere thanks to Mitchell Elementary School in Golden, CO for their outstanding support their afterschool music education classes. Keyboard For Kids presented Mitchell Elementary with a token plaque to commemorate their success at Mitchell Elementary School.

Keyboards For Kids appreciates the patience and dedication of the Mitchell office staff, teachers, and parents also as we launched their start-up company in the fall of 2006. Mitchell was the first school KFK set up at and it consistently has the highest enrollment of any location in Denver.

Mitchell Elementary began the year with over 40 students, 5 teachers, and 8 classes every Tuesday afternoon in beginning, intermediate, keyboard and guitar, drum circle and guitar classes!

Keyboards For Kids now has 50 venues and over 750 students. We are very grateful for the Principal, Mr. Summeril, the PTA, the office staff, and the helpful teacher's classroom for opening their doors to the music teachers and the program.

Music makes for happy and smart kids, and Keyboards For Kids seeks to instill a life-long love of music and the arts; enriching children's lives and boosting their academic success in the process.

Keyboards For Kids hopes to have the good fortune to work with the kids at Mitchell Elementary in Golden for years to come!

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Dr. Cremaschi kindly invited Keyboards For Kids Director and Senior Teacher Jocelyn Morrow to present the Keyboards For Kids teacher training program and internship to his graduate piano pedagogy class. It is Keyboard's For Kids hope that pedagogy students will choose to start their career with us as teachers. We thank Dr. Cremaschi for his support of our group keyboard education classes!

It's that time of year again! Young students everywhere are counting the days until summer when they will have time away from school to enjoy sports, new activities, camps, and the beautiful Colorado weather. Now is the time to start thinking about how to occupy their time while providing them with a continued basis of education and fun!

Keyboards For Kids is offering several exciting and affordable week-long summer music camps in the summer of 2007 for young students of all ages and abilities. Part of the mission at Keyboards For Kids is to inspire a life-long love of music in children; by making classes and camps fun with enthusiastic and knowledgeable teachers, Keyboards For Kids does just that.
Keyboards For Kids strongly believes in the knowledge that music 'builds the brains' of children, and that a music education can dramatically increase abstract reasoning, spatial skills, and math and verbal test scores. For students everywhere, Keyboards For Kids summer camps and classes are a fantastic way to introduce and encourage musical development.

Students interested in the general music camps will be exposed to rhythm, note reading, different musical styles such as jazz and classical, and performing solo or in an ensemble using Keyboards and Guitars that are provided for the students to use during the camp. Each week culminates in an exciting student talent show where children get to show off their skills and perform for friends and family.


Scholarships based on ability are available! Need-based tuition reductions are also available. If you participate in free or reduced price lunch programs we can help you!! Look for our $25 coupon in Kid's Pages magazine! We are more than happy to accomodate your budget with payment plans, volunteering and bartering opportunities! Let us show you how we can make it work for you and your family!

Great article in Mile High News about Keyboards For Kids in the fall of 2006 - includes quotes from parents and educators.

New music program touts bonding, poise, fun


By MATT POPOWSKI


August 17, 2006
When bells ring throughout Jefferson County schools this fall, some students will trade in their usual after-school activities for a bit more learning.

Keyboards for Kids, a program that provides group musical lessons to young beginners, will offer lessons at seven area schools this fall.

Keyboards for Kids offers fun, convenient and affordable group lessons for to children in grades kindergarten through sixth. Lessons range from electronic keyboard, guitar and violin to voice.

The lessons achieve personal bonding between teacher and child to create a caring and thriving learning environment.

Jocelyn Morrow, director and co-owner of Keyboards for Kids, stresses the importance of having fun and learning music through playing games.

"They learn a lot," Morrow said. "We sneak it in."

When kids are having fun, that is when the learning can start, Morrow said.

Teachers use the traditional method of learning to read music and enhance it with an ear-first approach borrowed from the Suzuki method.

Each lesson involves practicing on the instrument, ear training, singing, improvisation, rhythm training, music history and appreciation and movement games.

Games such as bingo, bean bag toss and name that tune teach musical basics and appreciation for classical music.

The group setting makes it more affordable for parents. It also encourages peer bonding, learning and team work.

"Even though they're in a group, she interacts with them one-on-one and engages them,"

The lessons accommodate children that learn by listening, hearing and doing.

"Overall, it's a really clever way to teach kids about music," Kelly Johnson of Golden said.

Keyboards for Kids involves much more than instrumental lessons, creating a high quality experience. The children practice introducing themselves for a performance, smiling and bowing.

"Jocelyn has incorporated discipline, poise, manners and treating each other and the teacher with respect," said Janelle Cook, assistant director of Keyboards for Kids.

Riffle's two children are signed up for fall lessons at Maple Grove Elementary School.

"Music brings so much to their lives," Riffle said.

Morrow said she wants to attract young children to promote musical interest and skills to prepare them for private lessons and elementary school music classes.

"Musicians are the most fun and smartest kids — the good kids in class," Morrow said.

Cook stressed that even if the children don't perform professionally, they will at least learn to appreciate music.

Morrow and her husband, David, brought Keyboards for Kids from Roswell, Ga., when they moved to Golden in 2005 and recognized a market for the program.

Morrow said the idea for Keyboards for Kids came as an outgrowth of her frustrations as a modern mother. She wanted to remove the barriers that keep young children from becoming involved with music.

"People seem very interested because the prices of individual lessons are so high," said Dr. Ericka Sueker, director of Golden Independent School.

Morrow said her greatest reward is in teacher education — seeing the teachers grow and develop and having them recognize the difference they make in the children's lives, Morrow said.

About half of the Keyboards for Kids staff have master's degrees and extensive experience in teaching music to children, Morrow said.

"I would like to see kids in every school in Colorado to take classes—to reach every child we can," Morrow said.

KFK Teachers Katie Sakanai and Amanda Malone were intervied for this informative and supportive article!