Educators
Our imagine TEACHING KITS include curated information for your lectures on early childhood trend topics.
Whether your students are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners, imagine has it all – text, images, drawings, audio/video recordings, scores, podcasts, infographics, and numerous hyperlinks to resources. Enhance your teaching by embedding high-quality content into your courses. Make learning an engaging, interactive, and meaningful experience.
Teaching Kit 4
Adaptive Music Making in Early Childhood Settings
- Featured Article: Everyone Can Play: Ukulele Kids Around the World by Marlén Rodriguez-Wolfe and colleagues; open access to webinar on September 5, 2023
- Wisdom: Top 10: Adaptive Music Making by Lori Gooding; open access to 10 Tips
- Reflection Article: Steps Toward Equitable Music Making by Anita Swanson; open access to infographic
- Practice: Assistive Technology: Independent Music Making by Crystal King; includes video demonstrations
- Master Class: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter by Petra Kern; open access to Fall video
Teaching Kit #3
Music Therapy in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
imagine 2022 gives an in-depth look at Music Therapy in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Understand core concepts, strengthen child-parent relationships and connectedness, promote infant and young children’s social and emotional development, build community support, and take care of yourself – all by using music as your primary tool.
- Featured Article: Stress Response Reduction Through Music-Based Sensory Experiences by Deanna Hanson-Abromeit; open access to infographic handout
- Literature Spotlights: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health key initiatives and research outcomes summarized by Alex Ruffner and displayed on 12 infographic cards
- Podcast: Children’s Emotional Development and Needs: An Interview With Mary Anna Walsh by Dana Bolton; open access to podcast
- Intervention Idea: Dreamship by Sarah Paczak Chappell; includes purpose, goals, behavior observation, directions, adaptations, video demonstration, and chord chard; open access to song recording
- Master Class: Mindfulness and Meditation with Young Children by Dena Register; open access to video
Teaching Kit #2
Telepratice in
Early Childhood
Music Therapy
imagine 2021 explores Early Childhood Music Therapy telepractice, field-tested in the online environment, while valuing families’ priorities, beliefs, and contextual factors. Learn about components of the three-tiered service delivery model, get ground-breaking insights into evolving digital interventions with children and families, and find a wealth of resources for your everyday practice.
- Featured Article: Inside Early Childhood Music Therapy: Exploring a Flexible Online Service Delivery Model during COVID-19 by Petra Kern and Amy Furman; open access to tele-intervention checklist
- Wisdom: Top Ten Ways Families Can Utilize Music to Help Their Young Child by Anne Meeker Watson
- Practice: Tele-Interventions in Early Head Start Programs: Tips and Tricks by Cindy Kraus; includes video demonstration
- Parents Can: 14 music play ideas curated by imagine authors for use at home; open access to 12 infographic cards
- Master Class: Teaching Through the Screen Instead of on the Screen: An Interview With Rebecca Vitelli by Petra Kern; open access to video
Teaching Kit #1
Technology and Interactive Media Use in Early Childhood Music Therapy
imagine 2017 gives answers to “what, when, with whom, where, why, how, and how much” questions when using technology and interactive media with young children. Find out how the intentional use of digital music tools with families can offer children new opportunities for learning, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
- Featured Article: Using Technology and Interactive Media With Young Children: An Interview With Chip Donohue by Nicole Rivera; includes 5 videos capturing key messages; open access to 10 Tips
- Reflection: Technology and Interactive Media: Considerations for Music Therapists by Dana Bolton; includes a research summary, organizational guidelines, and Digital Life Skills outline
- Practice: Skill Generalization: Intentional Use of Apps in Music Therapy Sessions and Beyond by Petra Kern and Bonny Hayhurst, includes key messages, Preschool App Evaluation Guide, and video demonstration; free access to article
- Practice: Makey Makey®: Creating a Digital, Sensory, and Music Experience by James Maxon; includes video demonstration
- Master Class: Songwriting Goal-Based Children’s Music by Rachel Rambach; open access to video
All Topics
Adaptive Music Making
Mental Health
imagine 2022 gives an in-depth look at Music Therapy in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Understand core concepts, strengthen child-parent relationships and connectedness, promote infant and young children’s social and emotional development, build community support, and take care of yourself – all by using music as your primary tool.
Telepractice
imagine 2021 explores Early Childhood Music Therapy telepractice, field-tested in the online environment, while valuing families’ priorities, beliefs, and contextual factors. Learn about components of the three-tiered service delivery model, get ground-breaking insights into evolving digital interventions with children and families, and find a wealth of resources for your everyday practice.
Technology & Interactive Media
imagine 2017 gives answers to “what, when, with whom, where, why, how, and how much” questions when using technology and interactive media with young children. Find out how the intentional use of digital music tools with families can offer children new opportunities for learning, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Around the World
imagine 2020 provides a wealth of information about cultural responsiveness, diverse language learners, trauma-informed care for displaced children, and how early childhood music therapists work around the world. Review information about different societies, laws & policies, and the therapeutic process as well as insights into cultures, traditions, and music, detailed country reports, and valuable resources from over 40 country representatives.
Intervention Ideas
imagine 2019 is a collection of 50 popular song-based intervention ideas composed by imagine authors for young children of all abilities. View infographic displays of research supporting the benefits of music therapy in the five early childhood develomental areas. Musical scores to tap on, audio recordings to listen to, and short video snippets demonstrating successful implementation in everyday life make content accessible to anyone who wants to maximize children’s learning.
Music Play
imagine 2018 explores All About Play–Play for All. Learn about music and the role of play, developmental stages of play, play-based learning, cross-cultural play, environments for play, interdisciplinary play opportunities, and play for children with disabilities and for those who experience difficult life circumstances.
Advocacy
Inclusion Practice
imagine 2015 describes inclusion practices (i.e., access, participation, and supports) that address children’s right to participate as a full member of families, communities, and society. Learn how music therapy interventions can foster a sense of belonging, social relationships and friendships, and support each child to reach their full potential.
Family Practice
imagine 2014 focuses on family practice (including family-centered practices, famility capacity-building practices, and family & professional collaboration). Learn about music therapy interventions promoting active participation of families, information that strengthens their parenting knowledge, and resources that support their child’s growth and developement.
Evidence-Based Practice
imagine 2013 keys into evidence-based practice. Learn about research outcomes that support the effectiveness of early childhood music therapy services, experts’ experiences and strategies of implementing assessment tools, and innovative interventions while honoring families’ values, beliefs, and preferences.
Foundations and Innovations
imagine 2012 features an array of topics representing strong foundational and innovative work. From a tribute to Dr. Clive Robbins who passed in December 2011 to the Keep a Beat math program – imagine 2012 has it all. Learn from pioneers’, researchers’, and practitioners’ daily music-based interactions with young children and their families.
Awareness and Community
imagine 2011 reports about new collaborations and community outreach initiatives. Learn about an early childhood music therapy training program for multilingual families, interventions for language development with at-risk infants, or music and literacy development in young children with hearing loss.
New Beginnings
imagine 2010 is the inaugural issue of the first annual online magazine dedicated to early childhood music therapy. Learn about the goals, vision, and support from leaders in the field of music therapy, early childhood education, occupational therapy, and early childhood music and movement, then dive into the featured topic, Incorporating Music Into Daily Routines: Family Education and Integration, as well as research on early childhood literacy and clinical work.
Open Access to Our Authors’
Master Classes
Our Master Classes are short pre-recorded online tutorials offered by imagine authors. Draw your students’ attention to a topic and learn from experts working with young children and their families.