Our teachers have successfully completed the Music Together®® Teaching Workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey. Music Together has been a curriculum pioneer since 1987, and applies the latest research in early childhood music development to its program.
Karen Crane
Karen is the director of Music Together of Davis. Passionate about music and dance from a young age, Karen began playing the accordion in elementary school (a traveling salesman from a local accordion school knocked on her parents' door, and the rest is history!). She later took organ lessons, as well as tap and ballet classes. As an adult she sang and performed for many years in women's choruses. Karen received her MSW from UC Berkeley, and has extensive experience organizing social, educational, and community service programs. She became inspired by Music Together's innovative approach to early childhood music education while attending classes in Berkeley with her infant daughter, Molly. Karen completed the Center for Music and Young Children training in the summer of 2002; she is a registered Music Together teacher, as well as a licensed center director. Molly, now 8, is an enthusiastic dancer who loves to move to the beat . . .
Kristin Stansby
Kristin was ecstatic about Music Together and its philosophy when she discovered the program through research for a child development class. For over 3 years she attended Music Together classes in Davis with her daughter, Maya (now 8) and her son, Eli (now 3). The Music Together experience has been exciting and rewarding for the whole Stansby family. Musical endeavors have been Kristin's favorite activities since early childhood: she played several instruments in marching band, as well as the piano; participated in high school and community theater; has sung in many choirs; and generally loves music in as many creative ways as possible. Kristin completed her teacher training the the fall of 2004.
