November 2025
This report provides 2024-25 evaluation results for the Music for Life program that offers music classes for older adults.
MacPhail Center for Music has programs for students with limited access to music education and older adults. The evaluations look at program implementation and outcomes.
This report provides 2024-25 evaluation results for the Music for Life program that offers music classes for older adults.
This report summarizes findings from the 2024-2025 Learning With Music program evaluation that Wilder Research conducted in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music. MacPhail partnered with Wilder to create a classroom observation tool that could offer insight into the relationship between music-based classroom management activities in early childhood settings and the ways in which children in a class might exhibit behaviors associated with executive functioning. In addition, we created a classroom teacher survey to gather teacher perspectives on the program.
This report provides 2023-24 evaluation results for the Music for Life program that offers music classes for older adults.
This report presents findings from the 2023-2024 Online School Partnerships evaluation, focusing on outcomes and satisfaction for participating students and schools.
This report presents findings from the annual evaluation of the MacPhail After School Strings Program at Ascension Catholic School in Minneapolis. It includes satisfaction and outcome data for the 2023-24 school year.
Annual report summarizing evaluation outcomes of the Sing Play Learn program. This report covers the 2022-2023 school year.
Annual evaluation of the Music for Life programming for older adults. The 2022-23 report presents results of participant surveys and conversational interviews.
On the blog: Music for Life Connects Older Adults with Music and Community
MacPhail created the MacPhail Northside Youth Orchestra as a way for youth who had aged out of the Afterschool Intensive Strings program to continue playing their instrument in a collaborative setting. In the 2022-23 school year, MacPhail and Wilder Research worked together to collect information on the MNYO program through student interviews and lesson progress reports.
This report presents a high-level review of Online School Partnerships evaluation data from the 2019-20 academic year through the 2022-23 academic year.
This is the 2022-23 summary report for the MacPhail Online School Partnership program. MacPhail teaching artists completed music skills assessments for their individual lesson students.
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