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    The document discusses the author's experience with music education and how it helped her overcome anxieties. As a shy student, she was reluctant to participate in honor bands or audition for drum major. However, her band directors created a supportive environment where she felt comfortable challenging herself. Through their encouragement, she was able to push past her limits and take on new opportunities in music. The author believes music education can teach important life lessons about becoming better individuals by learning to find one's voice, listen to others, and share knowledge. She hopes to use music to help her future students grow as people.

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    The document discusses the author's experience with music education and how it helped her overcome anxieties. As a shy student, she was reluctant to participate in honor bands or audition for drum major. However, her band directors created a supportive environment where she felt comfortable challenging herself. Through their encouragement, she was able to push past her limits and take on new opportunities in music. The author believes music education can teach important life lessons about becoming better individuals by learning to find one's voice, listen to others, and share knowledge. She hopes to use music to help her future students grow as people.

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    The document discusses the author's experience with music education and how it helped her overcome anxieties. As a shy student, she was reluctant to participate in honor bands or audition for drum major. However, her band directors created a supportive environment where she felt comfortable challenging herself. Through their encouragement, she was able to push past her limits and take on new opportunities in music. The author believes music education can teach important life lessons about becoming better individuals by learning to find one's voice, listen to others, and share knowledge. She hopes to use music to help her future students grow as people.

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    This I Believe - Cristina Sarrico

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    The document discusses the author's experience with music education and how it helped her overcome anxieties. As a shy student, she was reluctant to participate in honor bands or audition for drum major. However, her band directors created a supportive environment where she felt comfortable challenging herself. Through their encouragement, she was able to push past her limits and take on new opportunities in music. The author believes music education can teach important life lessons about becoming better individuals by learning to find one's voice, listen to others, and share knowledge. She hopes to use music to help her future students grow as people.

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    Cristina Sarrico

    “This I Believe” Philosophy

    I can still remember the absolute terror I felt when in sixth grade my band director asked

    me to play in our Sending District Honor Band. Mistakenly thinking this was an auditioned

    ensemble, I stayed up all night anxiously worrying about my major scales. And the next

    morning, I marched straight up to her desk to tell her that I was never going to audition for

    anything EVER, and because of that I wasn’t going to participate in the Honor Band. Luckily,

    my band director wasn’t one to give up on her kids easily, and using music she created an

    environment where I felt safe to challenge myself and grow. And within a year, I was

    participating in select ensembles, taking trombone lessons, and even auditioning for regions.

    And then came high school. I can still remember exactly where I was standing on our

    marching band field freshman year when the Senior Drum Major pulled me aside during

    rehearsal. When he asked me if I would ever consider trying out for drum major myself, I held

    back a surprised laugh. Standing up on that podium in front of over a hundred people to lead

    would be terrifying. So I blinked twice and said no, not ever - I was comfortable with where I

    was and I was too trapped in my anxieties to leave.

    But sure enough, only a little over a year later, I was jumping up and down with

    excitement and only a little bit of fear when I found out my audition for drum major had been

    successful.

    Looking back on all of the times in my life in which I’ve placed these limits on myself

    and all of the times I’ve taken steps out of my comfort zone to push past them, one thing always
    remains constant through them all - music and the mentors I have been fortunate to have found

    within music.

    I believe that when guided in the right direction by teachers, music has the beautiful

    capability to teach us how to become better individuals and humans in our shared world. For me,

    the music educators in my life inspired me and made me feel safe to push myself out of my

    comfort zone. They listened to me, encouraged me, advocated for my well being, and ultimately

    gave me all of the tools I needed to experience everything music has to offer. And now, a little

    older and equipped with all my teachers have taught me, music itself pushes me to learn and

    grow in ways I never thought possible. Music has taught me how to find my voice but also how

    to listen to others and join together to create something more beautiful than I could have ever

    created on my own. Music has taught me to listen louder than I speak, and when I do speak to do

    so articulately and with meaning and purpose. Music has taught me to have confidence in

    myself, and to share what I have learned with others. But most importantly, music has taught me

    that I always have more to learn and more ways to grow.

    Moving forward, I believe that as a music educator I can use music not just to create

    beautiful art, but to help individuals grow into more well rounded and empowered humans. This

    I believe.

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