Education

Nina Stern is the Artistic Director of S’Cool Sounds, a non-profit organization with the mission of using the power of music to inspire, educate, and connect children and communities, envisioning a world in which all people have access to the transformative experience of making music together. S’Cool Sounds (SCS) provides hands-on, cross-cultural musical training for K-12 children through classroom teaching, after school programs, and community events, maintaining on-going relationships with over 30 New York City public schools and four primary/middle schools in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. SCS offers free online resources available to all, as well as professional development and school workshops around the country and overseas.  The Washington Post applauded Nina Stern’s program as a model in its “innovation in the classroom” series (11/9/03). For this important work Ms. Stern was awarded an Endicott Fellowship in 2003 and was honored by Early Music America in 2005 with the “Early Music Brings History Alive” Award and again in 2019 with the Laurette Goldberg Award for Achievement in Early Music Outreach.

Since 2001 Daphna has been acting as a musician for the education department at the Met Museum of Art in New York City, in a program that combines music and art. Passionate about working with children, she had the honor of volunteering as a musician educator with organizations like Palestinian/ Israeli initiative’ Taayush’, and Global Camps Africa in Soweto, South Africa. Using music as a healing tool, Daphna led a music program for teenagers and adults recovering from mental illness at the Fountain House in New York City. Mor has created a curriculum for babies and toddlers with their adult caregivers combining art and music taught to hundreds of families in NYC.