Bigger Better Brains is a project by Dr Anita Collins that aims to improve access to and understanding of neuroscientific research in music education.
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Research has linked music participation with stronger academic performance across Maths, English, and Science.
Music teachers also know strong musicianship is built through both singing and instrumental learning.
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Great music advocacy is audience-specific.
The most effective advocates know how to connect the value of music education to what each audience cares about most.
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Music teachers are already balancing so much.
The Quick Wins Toolkit was created to make advocacy simpler, faster, and more sustainable with ready-to-use tools that have audience-specific messaging.
Discover the Quick Wins Toolkit.
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Our Practise Room Poster Set helps remind learners that every practise session is helping their brain grow, focus, and learn. ๐บโจ
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Frustration is often a sign that music learning is stretching the brain in new ways.
The moments students want to give up are often the moments where growth is beginning to deepen.
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Music learning helps build the foundations for ALL learning ๐ถ
Dr Anita Collins explains how music learning supports sensory processing, faster language development, and inhibitory control in children.
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Small exercises create big growth. ๐ป๐ง
Every repeated rhythm, steady pulse, and practiced movement is strengthening coordination, timing, and focus, one beat at a time.
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Research links singing to confidence, emotional wellbeing, connection and community. When children sing together, they are building far more than musical skills.
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Some students find more than a voice through singing, they find confidence, connection, and belonging. ๐ค
Because sometimes music becomes the place students feel most like themselves.
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Have your community seen this research? ๐ถ
Music learning and maths are more connected than many people realise.
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The Music Advocacy Method Course is back!
Learn how to communicate the value of your music program in a way that truly lands with parents, staff, school leaders, and your wider community.
Make this the year your message lands.
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The biggest advocacy moments often happen when students feel frustrated or want to quit. What we say next can shape whether they see music learning as failureโฆ or growth.
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A violin is not just a violin.
A trumpet is not just a trumpet.
Theyโre tools helping students build focus, coordination, confidence, resilience, and stronger brains.
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Music learning helps students develop far more than musical skills.
From independent thinking to collaboration, music practice supports the kinds of learning skills students carry into everything.
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Music doesnโt just reflect our mood, it can change it.
Music can calm stress, boost energy, improve focus, and help us process emotions.
This week we gave away our Change Your Mood with Music worksheet
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Advocacy becomes far more effective when the right message reaches the right audience. ๐ถ
The Quick Wins Toolkit gives music teachers ready-to-use advocacy tools saving you hours creating content yourself.
Quick Wins Toolkit.
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The Lullaby Effect explores how singing with children supports connection, communication, and early development through the power of music.
Perfect for expecting parents, new parents, grandparents and caregivers.
The Lullaby Effect
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Music learning shapes the brain. ๐ง
Every rhythm strengthens coordination. Every repeated phrase builds neural pathways. Every moment of anticipation develops prediction and focus.
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Dr Anita Collins explains how conscious thought is essential when learning a new skill. Through repetition refinement comes automation, and thatโs when true expression can shine โจ
How are you supporting your students?
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Music learning reminds us that growth isnโt mechanical. Itโs collaborative, dynamic, and deeply human.
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