Michael Christiansen's Contact Details

Michael Christiansen's Company Details

Consonus Music Institute

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States • 2 Employees
E-learning

The Consonus Music Institute (CMI) is a curriculum developer and publisher of instrumental music courseware for K-12 schools. We also provide online and live training resources for classroom music teachers with an emphasis on guitar pedagogy. We utilize a blended learning education model that combines the best of classroom pedagogy principles with distance learning technology.CMI is dedicated to ensuring success for teachers, students and, schools. Our emphasis on non-traditional instruments makes classroom music instruction more relevant to today's students, while continuing to value the essential role of traditional music programs. We measure success in terms of the growth of student music participation.Our courseware, teacher training, and technology give every teacher the ability to produce high-quality instructional outcomes, regardless of their instrumental proficiency level and teaching experience with non-traditional instruments such as guitar and ukulele. In this way we try to enhance each teacher's individual value to their students and to their school.CMI classroom music courseware is designed to infuse every student with a lifelong passion for playing music individually and in an ensemble, while building teacher confidence and strengthening music instruction programs in every educational setting, making music accessible, affordable, effective, and fun.