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2025 Best Communities for Music Education Winners

Congratulations! The NAMM Foundation has recognized your community for its commitment to music education with the Best Communities for Music Education or SupportMusic Merit Award. The best way to celebrate this significant award is to amplify and share it with the entire community and beyond.

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From the elementary music lessons, where students cultivate curiosity and begin to build confidence engaging with music, to the middle school students developing into capable musicians, and onward to the high school students connecting to the world through music, Vista Unified School District witnesses firsthand the profound impact music has on our students.

- Susan Stuber, VAPA Resource Teacher, Vista Unified School District, 1st year winner

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"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul." Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician.

Quoted in "We use music to say things we could never say with words" by Andrea Bocelli. Feb. 7, 2018

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