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Adapt, Advance, Achieve: Connecticut’s Plan to Learn and Grow Together
Arts and Music Education
• Consult the resources provided by the Connecticut Arts Administrators Association.
• For handling musical instruments, consult the National Association for Music
Education’s COVID-19 Instrument Cleaning Guidelines.
• Provide sufficient instructional minutes to support standards-based curriculum,
student learning expectations, and district goals.
• Add to class time for materials and tools to be distributed by teacher only or area
designated for individual storage and to allow for proper cleaning of materials.
• Strive to maintain current program of studies and course offerings, within safety
precautions.
• Maintain proper spacing of at least 12 feet when students are singing or performing
wind instruments by scheduling large ensembles in auditoriums, outdoors, cafeterias,
gyms or other large spaces. Focus on maximizing distancing for instruments that
require blowing or for singing, compared with string and percussion instruments.
• Schedule large ensembles into smaller groups throughout the day. Shift curriculum
focus to solo and small ensemble work. Shift from a concert format to a recital format.
Create virtual performance experiences and assessments.
• Maintain small homogeneous groupings of instruments for lesson instruction.
• Continue full access to beginning instrumental music.
• Provide individual art supply kits for each student, or plan for increased sanitization
between all use.
• Include tech devices as options for photography at home, storage of photos and
exporting image files.
• Use on-line apps or platforms for student work (e.g., SeeSaw, Artsonia, Google
Classroom, Flip Grid, SmartMusic, Sound Trap, Acapella, museum collections,
painting/drawing platforms), video displays (e.g., YouTube), and slides (e.g., Google
Slides, PowerPoint).
• Further guidance related to chorus instruction will be shared as it is released.