Enabling leadership through music

EL Create is a  group-based music learning program that enables children from under-resourced schools to tell the stories of their dreams and communities. By enabling children to write original songs and hosting public performances, the program enables important leadership skills in students.

Our Curriculum

EL Create curriculum is comprised of four key aspects

Singing and Performance 

Developing the building blocks to any form of creative exploration around music, a repertoire of songs incorporating the knowledge fundamentals, exploring different musical styles, genres and cultures. 

Synthesis 

Recognizing how to connect and appreciate music’s roles and influences in different cultures and time periods, as well as about different artists and musical styles, synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to understand and music).

Knowledge Fundamentals 

Learning the tools of the discipline to understand sound and music, i.e., vocabulary, elements, concepts and principles.

Making Music 

Expressing through music by writing songs and working on compositions. 

Our Annual Program

The program entails about 48 lessons between July and February. Each session is for approximately 60-90 minutes. Students participate in a mid-year community concert, and an end of year public concert.

This culminating concert is designed as a platform for the students to perform their own original songs that tell the stories of their communities.

Each year focuses on an important theme, e.g., the 2018 concert focused on the issue of non-discrimination, and 2019 on how “We can” make a real difference to the world we live in. For most students, it’s their first time on a stage, first time performing in front of their friends, peers and parents, and first time writing their own song.

The concert is free, open to the public, and focuses on bringing together as many of the students parents, school staff and community members as possible. It is designed to create a professional, high quality concert experience for the students.

Our Pedagogy

The program’s pedagogy focuses on building functional fluency over technical or theoretical learning for students. 

This teaching pedagogy focuses on promoting best practices in the classroom including active learning, dynamic lesson plans and engaging learning styles. A typical lesson would involve students in between three and five different activities that engage them visuallly, physically and aurally, i.e., games involving movement, singing and listening, as well as the blackboard or audio-visual aids. 

Teachers are trained in this pedagogy, and it sets our EL Create program apart from the traditional music learning paradigm that is one-way from the teacher to students, and primarily only aural, focused on listening and repetition by students. 

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We are in

The EL Create program impacts 2341 students across Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Dharwad and Hyderabad.

Stories from our schools

Our students have been exposed to music and singing before, but I have seen a remarkable rise in their confidence after their involvement in EL Create.
Daniel NazarethNew Life Helping Hand, Kanhai Gaon, Gurgaon
Learning music enables collaboration & creativity, lessons that extend beyond the classroom, into real life. EL Create trains young kids to become musicians, and eventually become teachers, so they can go back to their own communities, and make a difference.
Vishal DadlaniRenowned Music Composer & Performer
I feel that one of the biggest impact through El Create's program is socio- emotional development, which includes the child's experience, expression and management of emotions, as well as the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationship with others. EL Create’s program helped children to apply themselves, as well supported teamwork. Students tend to have a easier time learning to speak confidently, demonstrate better social skills, discipline and patience; and the program improved their academic performance too.
Lata NegiClass Teacher (Teach For India)
We have seen an increase in the confidence level. It’s a big thing for the students from a government school to be learning music and performing on stage. I believe they haven’t been exposed to this experience of performing before this. We like how the EL Create teachers come in and teach these concepts. We believe the confidence of our students has grown quite strong. It’s a big achievement for the school as well.
PrincipalKatha School, South Extension, Delhi
In class we learned about different musical concepts such as pitch, dynamics, and tempo through games, exercises and dance activities. We also learned journalling. We would learn to sing new songs and body-percussion. For the concert, we participated in creating decoration including bunting, and also acted as MCs making announcements. We also had many discussions about non-discrimination and how to respect others as part of our song-writing exercises.
StudentNigam Pratibha Vidyalaya, Delhi
The students were exposed to a newer experience and it’s only these newer experiences that help a child be more aware of the world. We went to the concert and we liked the experience. We liked how kids from different schools were singing their own songs. I liked that she was able to sing with others. When they have these experience with others then they feel positive.
ParentKatha School, South Extension
, Delhi
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