Welcome to the East Haven Public Schools music department!

The East Haven Board of Education believes that music, both instrumental and vocal, plays an essential role in
the education of all students by providing a unique language for expressing spiritual and emotional
values that are both personal and universal. Students should be provided opportunities for
individual performance and for group participation, both of which provide benefits for all students.

We believe that music provides students a historical link to the past and helps them to
understand the present. Music can expand students’ creative capabilities and greatly contributes to
increasing their learning capacities in diverse subject areas. The music program should include the
utilization of current technologies in the field.

Our mission as a music department is to provide all students with the continuous and
sequential study of music which will simultaneously reveal the joy of aesthetic expression, the hard
work of performance, and the necessity of music within the complete human experience.