Partners
Creating meaningful opportunities for students takes more than one organization. Music to the Ears brings together education, industry, technology, philanthropy, and community partners to expand access, strengthen Creative Pathways, and connect learning to the real world.
Strategic partner
Creative Economy Platform
Academix designs the frameworks, industry partnerships, standards, credentials, and systems that connect education to the Creative Economy. Music to the Ears serves as the community implementation partner, bringing those systems to life through K-12 education, workforce pathways, arts and culture, and strategic partnerships.
Together, Academix and Music to the Ears connect strategy with implementation, education with industry, and creativity with opportunity.
The structures that turn scattered creative activity into a coherent, repeatable education model, including the BEAT Framework itself.
Definitions of what a student has actually learned, and the credentialing routes that let that learning travel beyond one classroom.
The higher education, technology, media, civic, and industry relationships a single school or nonprofit cannot assemble alone.
The operating model that lets a community run a Creative Economy ecosystem year after year instead of one funded season.
How the partnership works
Two organizations, different roles, with one common goal.
Strategic partner
Creative Economy Platform
Designs the frameworks, partnerships, standards, credentials, and systems that enable communities to build sustainable Creative Economy ecosystems.
Community implementation partner
Community Implementation Partner
Activates creative education and workforce pathways through local partnerships, K-12 programming, workforce development, arts and culture, and community engagement.
Ecosystem partners
Our ecosystem brings together education, industry, technology, and community partners who contribute expertise, tools, resources, and real-world access, creating opportunities for students that extend far beyond the classroom.
District Partner
Music to the Ears is an approved K-12 education provider for LAUSD and an approved “Qualified Arts Vendor” for Creative Education Programs.
Visit Los Angeles Unified School District (opens in a new tab)Higher Education Partner
LMU Extension connects students to education and industry-aligned instruction through the Academix Creative Entrepreneurship certificate program.
Visit Loyola Marymount University (opens in a new tab)Music Technology Partner
Academix BEAT Lab is a Serato Certified DJ School, providing industry recognized credentials for K-12 students in CTE pathways.
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A network of creative professionals, educators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders who bring mentorship, real-world experience, and career insight directly to students.
Visit Leaders of the New Schooled (opens in a new tab)The wider ecosystem
In order for a thriving creative pathway to work, it relies on all six sectors. Together, they create the resources, relationships, experiences, and pathways that help turn creativity into opportunity.
Partner with us
Partnerships with Music to the Ears can take many forms. We work with each partner to align our interests and objectives to achieve the greatest community impact.
Open a studio, a venue, a set, a campus, or a working team to students for a field trip, a Creative Career Day, or an industry experience.
Put professional software and hardware into BEAT Labs and into students' hands, with the training that makes it usable.
Send practitioners who work in these fields to teach, critique, and mentor alongside Music to the Ears staff and school faculty.
Underwrite pathway programming, a lab build, an experience, or a cohort of students at a site that could not otherwise fund it.
Connect finishing students to internships, apprenticeships, credentialing routes, and entry-level work in your sector.
Host programming in a library, a community space, or a municipal facility and reach students outside the school day.
Tell us which of these you can offer and which students you want to reach. We will come back with a specific proposal: the sites, the pathways, the term, and what success would look like for both sides. No partnership goes on this site before it is real and both parties have signed off on how it is described.
We are excited to bring creative learning opportunities to schools, districts, libraries, and community organizations. Contact us to start the conversation.
