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#onist #hiphop #rap #music #underground #aussiehiphop #oneshotmusic #ableton #liveschool #produce #beats

[creativemorningsnashville]

Get to Know: Emma & Caitlin

There are few people in Nashville as young, driven and passionate about education than Caitlin Stubner and Emma Supica. Okay, that’s not true. As you’ll come to find on Friday, there are a ton of people in our city that care about making sure our city offers all students equal access to an excellent education. But Caitlin, Communications Director for Liveschool, an app designed to support positive school culture, and Emma, a former public school music teacher, are committed to exposing other young, driven people to join the cause. “I moved to Nashville to become a teacher in my life when I was ready and willing to work hard to make something broken, better,” Caitlin says. (Note: Caitlin and I were both a part of the 2009 Teach for America Nashville Charter Corps. She was an awesome teacher. Still is.) “I love reading—like all-consuming-fiction-reading—and lucky for me I became a reading teacher. At 23, I was not prepared to see 7th graders reading on average at a 1st grade level. After that, I became passionate about education because all students, no matter what their background or zip code, deserve to love reading or math or science or art or PE. They deserve to love school.” Caitlin’s first teaching experience was at Smithson Craighead, a now-defunct charter middle school that closed after running through four principals in three years, and achieving little in terms of academic progress for students. In it’s last year, only 5 percent of students were proficient in math. Unfortunately, that experience isn’t isolated to one school. And despite the fact that Tennessee’s schools have seen some of the most rapid progress in student achievement in the country, there’s no denying that the problems are pervasive and difficult to prioritize. “There are a gamut of problems facing schools today, both locally and nationally,” Emma says. “And there are a LOT of opinions out there on what's going to "fix" the system.” Recent debates have dominated state and national headlines: top-down reforms, such as the controversial Common Core standards, unclear direction and strategy around charter school implementation, funding... the list goes on and on. So much so, Emma says, that people tune out. “Things get lost,” she explains. “And the cries for help from the students and teachers who need it most won't be heard over a shouting match between powers.” While Caitlin and Emma clearly see the challenges ahead—they both hold onto great hope for the future of our schools. For now, Caitlin places much of that faith not in the bureaucracy of politics, but in the power of effective teachers. In her work at Liveschool, Caitlin builds training to accompany an app that enables whole schools to incentivize positive characteristics from respect and empathy to grit and perseverance—characteristics that have significant and long-term impact on student academic achievement. After all, the ability of a teacher to change a student’s trajectory and life is always going to start in the classrooms of Nashville not in the board rooms. “There is so much hope for our schools,” Caitlin says. “Do I have a million stories that will break your heart? Yes. But I also have a million that will make you laugh with joy. Education effects all of us — and it’s time for people to get informed so that they can help make our schools worthy of our students.”

Contributed by Claire Gibson

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[blendhq]

Winner: Blend.io + Liveschool Contest

Over the past month many talented artists on Blend.io were able to showcase their production skills in a unique contest put on by Australian based Liveschool in collaboration with Ableton, Studio 301, and Korg. Inside Ableton Live, contestants were asked to design and build the coolest Drum Rack with samples from the Korg Volca Beats analogue drum machine (sampled and processed by Studios 301), and to make the hottest beat they could with them before the contest’s end date on Monday, Oct. 14th.

The Best Drum Rack, judged by the project that had the most Pulls, would win the Korg Volca drum machine, while Best Beat (project with most Likes) would take home the Ableton web voucher.  In one fell swoop, coming in strong from Minneapolis and claiming both prizes, was the talented Parker Grones – aka Dharma Burner.

Special thanks to Liveschool for putting on the contest! And a BIG thanks to Ableton and Korg for hooking up some great prizes for the contestants! Congratulations again to the winner, Parker Grones! Preview and download his winning submission Drum Rack here, and be sure to check out his awesome sounds over on SoundCloud as well. 

To signup and start #blending today, head on over to Blend.io

[olireti]

Sneaky photo while I'm in class.. Back to basics with #abletonlive 🎵🎵 #createanddestroy #liveschool 👌

[newsvi]

LiveSchool's Task: Get a Date With a Teacher "One of the challenges we face as a company... is staying connected with schools, with our clients, with our users," says CEO Matt Rubinstein. His homework assignment for the team? Get a date to visit a teacher's classroom in the fall. Source : http://bit.ly/14jnb86

[heapsdecent]

Over the past month or so, Heaps Decent has put all of our facilitators through a training course at the only Ableton certified training centre in Australia, Liveschool. Here, a great deal of knowledge and skill was imparted on us all but Adam Maggs, the Ableton certified trainer in a dynamic learning environment that covered the varying production levels of all our facilitators.

Over the four sessions for each of the two groups, we managed to train up 16 people in total for a new level of assumed knowledge held by all of our workshop facilitators! We’re extremely lucky to have so many great people on board, so thanks to all the facilitators for coming along and getting involved! The timing couldn’t have been better as we’ve taken on more workshops than ever, over the next few months we’re going to be running up to 6 workshops a week!

A massive thanks goes to Adam Maggs at Liveschool who really looked after us with his great course! If you’re dabbling in production – get yourself along to one of his courses!