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Thursday, April 3, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Presented by Lili M. Levinowitz, Ph.D., Director of Research, Music Together Worldwide, and Professor Emerita of Music Education, Rowan University
Moderated by Lisa Chouteau, Senior Video Producer, Music Together Worldwide
Sponsored by Music Together Worldwide
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Come learn about the many ways in which music participation in early childhood naturally supports and enhances children’s brain development in the infant, toddler, and preschool years. Research continues to emphasize the importance of the first five years of a child’s life for their brain development. Music can be an enjoyable, natural, and easy way for educators to support the development of important structural changes, neurological processes, and cognitive skills during this very active time of brain development.
In this interactive edWebinar, attendees will review important terms and processes associated with brain development in early childhood, begin to understand how and why developmentally appropriate music and movement activities support young children’s brain development, and learn new songs they can use right away in their work with young children. Attendees will also explore specific techniques they can use when interacting musically with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to best support brain development in these earliest years.
This edWebinar will be of interest to PreK teachers and school leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenter
Lili M. Levinowitz, Ph.D. is Director of Research at Music Together Worldwide and Professor Emerita of Music Education at Rowan University. She is the co-author of Music Together, the first early childhood music education program to start at birth and to focus on the involvement of parents and caregivers in children’s music learning. Music Together classes are now found in over 3,000 communities across 40 countries. Dr. Levinowitz has trained thousands of Music Together teachers and has been actively involved in teaching very young children and graduate students for decades. As an international leader on early childhood music education, her articles appear frequently in journals and online, and she is a sought-after presenter on early childhood music education. She is the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association’s (ECMMA) 2024 Hall of Honor Inductee, recognizing her lifetime of achievement with worldwide influence on music and movement education.
About the Moderator
Lisa Chouteau is the Music in Early Learning edWebinar series host. She is the Senior Video Producer and Manager of Video Production at Music Together Worldwide and holds a B.S. in business administration, training, and development from The College of New Jersey. Lisa is also an Emmy Award-winning television producer of public affairs and educational programming for public television and cable networks across the country.
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Music Together® is the leader in early childhood music education. Our curriculum and enrichment resources have decades of research behind them, in both music education and child development. As the first organization to hold music classes for the youngest learners, and the first to include parents, we have been pioneers in early childhood music education since day one. First offered in 1987, our music classes, curricula, and enrichment resources for children birth through kindergarten help little ones develop their innate musicality and much, much more—when Music Together is offered by a school, music becomes a powerful learning tool. From private and public preschools, to pre-kindergarten programs, Head Start, childcare centers, and in-home daycares, our award-winning music and developmentally appropriate activities have been found to raise the overall quality of children’s early learning.
