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Educational Programs

Singing, songwriting and educating for more than forty years

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Education Through the Arts

Sally Rogers delights students of all ages with her wonderfully creative ways of transforming virtually any educational topic ⁠— science, history, math, you name it! ⁠— into an unforgettable learning experience that stimulates collaboration, broader thinking, and self-understanding.

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With over 25 year’s teaching experience, Sally is a firm believer in integrating curriculum through the arts. With a Master’s Degree in Integrated Curriculum for the Arts from Lesley University, she has worked in the public schools across the nation and in her own classroom and has seen how struggling students are transformed by the introduction of arts-based learning, bringing new meaning to their studies.

Rogers served as president of the Children’s Music Network and has received numerous awards and recognition including The Magic Penny Award (2017) for lifetime achievement empowering children through song, Prudence Crandall Award for Excellence in Multicultural Education (2009), two Parent’s Choice Gold Awards for her children’s albums and more. She is a CT Master Teaching Artist and frequently presents workshops on arts integration at in-school professional development workshops and conferences. Learn more about Sally Rogers’ educational programs for students, teachers, and seniors.

Teaching Residencies

Hands-on, interactive, art-based learning tailored to your PreK-8 curriculum
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Professional Development

Workshops & Presentations for Educators
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Songwriting With Elders

Community Music-making for Older Adults
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Teaching Residencies

Sally Rogers children's programs

The Science of Sound

Song and Dance

Quilts & Math - Teaching Residency with Sally Rogers

Quilts and Math

Teaching Residencies

How do you make curricular content stick? By singing about it, of course! Better yet, by writing the song you sing! Sally Rogers comes to your PreK-8 classroom and helps students discover their own creativity and musical genius while writing songs about their community, their studies and themselves. She is an arts-integration specialist and uses music, movement and visual art strategies to address your classroom goals. 

Why It Works

Watch as Sally describes her method for incorporating the arts into teaching residencies and why students respond to this interactive, arts-based learning.


Teaching Residency Topics

Topics for residencies can be tailored to reinforce the most important topics in your curriculum, or you can choose and adapt residencies such as:

Sing Your Way Through History

Students collect historical resources and oral histories to transform them into memorable songs.

Ballads Tell a Story: Retelling Cinderella

Ballad writing residency

As a class, students transform and retell a traditional folk tale in a different time, place and with new characters.

Quilts and Fractions

Quilts and Fractions residency

Hands-on and interactive. Create paper or cloth quilts to learn a wide variety of math concepts.

Every Rock Has a Story to Tell

Rocks geology residency

Sally combines her music with geological science to reinforce student’s ability to understand difficult concepts.

The Science of Sound

Sally Rogers children's programs

A FREE program for area Kindergartens sponsored by Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut. 

(Booking for this program is done through Performing Arts of Northeast CT. A new window will open.)

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Tenopolis: How Does the Census Work?

Tenopolis Residency

Students are the architects, creating towns using centimeter blocks, in which they must take the census, based on the number of cubes that they incorporate.

Songwriting With Kids

Songwriting is a fabulous tool for teaching rote concepts, assessing student learning, and improving literacy. The songs created in Sally’s residencies and workshops will reverberate long after the program ends!

Your Custom Residency

Work with Sally to create an arts-based learning residency tailored to your curriculum needs. The video shows the culminating product of a residency focused on creating health/nutrition jingles.

Teaching residencies with Sally Rogers typically run from one to ten days and can pertain to ANY area of the curriculum. Residencies are ideal for all core subject areas including:

  • Science
  • History
  • Social Studies
  • Language Arts
  • Math
  • Music

What Others Say

See what teachers had to say after Sally Rogers’ arts-based learning residencies.

A truly exhilarating experience

Thank you for doing such a marvelous job on the Heritage Corridor Songs Project.  The performance at Windham Middle School was a truly exhilarating experience, one I’ll not forget for a long time.  It was a powerful demonstration of using the arts to interpret natural and cultural heritage.

C. Tracy
National Park Service

You really are a master teaching artist

“It’s not easy to take a higher-level topic, such as sound, and bring it to a [kindergarten] level that was so easy for the students to see AND understand. You really are a Master Teaching Artist!”

Jenny Morrell
Andover Elementary

Impressed with your presentation

“I was very impressed with your presentation to the children.  They were all so involved. I think it was a good learning experience for the teachers too!”

Betty Hale

It was a great time for families!

I wanted to say a huge thank you for joining in with Wamego’s summer reading program this year! Looking back, it was a great time for families even in the midst of navigating some lingering Covid precautions. Virtual shows are not always easily done, but yours made it look easy! I wish you could have heard the kids who came in to tell me about how they loved your songs. I’d love to look at partnering again in the future.

Judy Chmiel
Daniel Boone Public Library, Wamego, KS

Master Teaching Artist

“You really are a Master Teaching Artist!”

Educator

Piggyback Planet Shaped My Childhoold

I am writing to tell you how much your CD “Piggyback Planet” has shaped my childhood and I am now sharing it with my own children. I have a vague memory of you coming to perform at the Ojai Valley Children’s Montessori school sometime in the early 90s. I believe my parents purchased a cassette tape from you and I remember falling in love with Hello Ladybug. Fast forward to now, I have a 3.5 year old daughter and 1.5 year old son who love that song just as much as I did back then. I have purchased your digital download CD to share with my daughter Montessori class in Gilbert, AZ. Just wanted to let you know what your music is living on.

Justine Krolikowski
Gilbert, AZ

Innovative and brilliant teaching

Sally is amazing! She is so innovative in her approach to teaching and presented a method of implementing stories as a medium for songs that was brilliant! And we all had a chance to try the method with each other. All around excellence!

Educator

Everyone loved you

Everyone loved you!  A mother of a Down’s Syndrome child in the special education unit at McKell, said Rodney was singing “Circle of the Sun” with all the signs a week later.  She was very impressed with his retention of the song and the motions. She and the teacher are going to explore signing as an alternate means of communication for him.

C. Cook
McKell Elementary, South Shore , KY

A Great Reinforcement

“Thank you for enhancing a topic that I taught to my students earlier in the year.  It was a great reinforcement for what they learned.  It’s not easy to take a higher-level topic, such as sound, and bring it to a level that was so easy for the students to see AND understand.”

Educator

You are a hero

I’m not sure you remember me, but I’m the girl who sat in some tar and who you lent your sweatpants out to.  You are a wonderful person to lend your stuff out to others you don’t even know. In my eyes, you are a hero because you can take time to talk and care for others.

High School Student
Buffalo, MN

We came across a picture of a harp

We thought of you today when we came across a picture of a harp during one of my lessons, and then watched a video on how it makes sound. The kids talked about the vibrations of the strings and how the shorter strings made higher sounds, while the longer strings made lower sounds. It was a wonderful discussion and all thanks to you! I hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to another visit next year!

Bethany Scafidi
Kindergarten Teacher, Woodstock Elementary School, Woodstock, CT

Sound is all around us

“Sally weaves scientific information about Sound into a beautiful, catchy tune that she taught to the children. She seamlessly guides them through a variety of developmentally appropriate activities that connect music and science. Everything builds to a percussion orchestra, where each child can participate! Sound IS all around us … and, we’re glad that Sally is all around us, too!”

Maria Carpenter
Rectory School

Singing on the bus

“The children were singing your song as they got on the buses today. Thank you again!”

Andrea Tomeo
Mary Fisher Elementary School, Thompson CT

Bring Sally Rogers to Your Classroom

Help students rediscover the fun of classroom learning. Book your interactive, arts-based teaching residency today!

All Connecticut school, library or professional development bookings are made through Arts for Learning Connecticut. (A new window will open and booking will be completed on their website.)

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Professional Development

Professional Development

Teaching Through Song

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Fresh Ideas for the Classroom

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Putting it All Together

Professional Development

In today’s classroom, every student learns differently. How can teachers reach every learning style and promote a deeper understanding of any academic topic? By incorporating art, music, poetry, drama, and dance as tools for understanding larger concepts in math, history, science, language, geography and more!

Why It Works

Discover the excitement students experience when educators implement arts-integration strategies into their lessons! When teachers attend one of Sally Rogers’ professional development workshops or presentations, they leave with a toolbox of arts strategies that are adaptable at all levels of instruction and are particularly useful in literacy programs.

Watch as Master Teaching Artist Sally Rogers explains how curriculum challenges can be overcome through arts-integration strategies that delight students and empower each teacher to discover their own “inner artist.”


Available Workshops

Professional development workshops are for teachers at all grade levels and areas of study. With rising pressure to meet standards and testing goals, arts integration is a surefire method to maximize the time each educator has with their students. Bonus: Everyone has more fun and experiences deeper understanding! 

Strategies for Arts Integration to Reach All Students

Participants will actively participate in learning kinesthetic, auditory, visual and linguistic strategies for delivery curriculum: language arts, math, science, social studies, etc. These strategies are tools for reaching the hard-to-teach student while engaging all learners.

Song Writing in the Classroom: Using Songwriting as an Assessment Strategy

Educators will learn how to use simple songwriting techniques to enhance their curriculum. These songs can be used to assess student learning or to differentiate instruction for those who are not “book learners”.

Oral Histories into Song: Connecting Students to Local History

Teachers will learn how to expand local history units into a hands-on project with long-lasting community benefits. Students collect oral histories and write songs based on the stories they have collected.

Workshops can be part of an hour-long staff meeting, half or full-day workshops. Each teacher is guaranteed to leave with a renewed sense of purpose, taking home music, visual art and movement strategies for immediate application in the classroom.

Reimagine Classroom Learning With Sally Rogers

Add to your toolbox of arts-integration strategies for the classroom. Book your professional development workshop today!

All Connecticut school, library or professional development bookings are made through Arts for Learning Connecticut. (A new window will open and booking will be completed on their website.)

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Songwriting With Elders

Songwriting Celebration

Singing a Solo

Making Music Together

Songwriting With Elders

Just because we get older doesn’t mean that we lose our ability to create! Sally now offers songwriting programs for seniors, to awaken the creativity and musical talents that lie in us all. Participants come together once a week for a lively hour of sharing. They get to know one another while brainstorming ideas for song lyrics and melodies. Tunes may be generated by the group, by Sally Rogers or may be based on existing musical ideas. The process is very engaging and hands-on, with everyone contributing to the making of singable songs. The residency culminates in a final celebration and sharing of the finished compositions.

Residencies can last from three to ten days, depending on funding. Grant funding opportunities may be available through the Connecticut Office of the Arts Regional Initiative Grant Program (REGI).

Benefits for Participants

  • Participants reclaim their inner musician through singing and songwriting
  • No musical experience necessary – we’re all born musical!
  • Ideal for memory retention
  • Opportunity for new learning and growth in a fun, social setting

Sample Workshop Session

Songwriting With Elders Lyrics

Participants come together once a week for a lively hour of sharing. Everyone is encouraged to contribute and brainstorm ideas for song lyrics and melodies (see sample lyrics above) which are then put to music created by the group or put to a familiar tune. A final song-sharing celebration caps off the residency.

Awaken Senior Creativity With Sally Rogers

A fun and engaging way for aging adults to preserve memory and social awareness. Book Songwriting With Elders in your community today!

All Connecticut school, library or professional development bookings are made through Arts for Learning Connecticut. (A new window will open and booking will be completed on their website.)

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