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Patrick Cerria

School Therapies & The Music Strategy Designer

I have posted these statistics multiple times and will continue to do so until their magnitude, and how they’re affecting education, is…

7 min readApr 3, 2024

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Patrick Cerria

The Most Underused Resource in Education

“Music has a power of forming the character and should, therefore, be introduced into the education of the young.” — Aristotle, Politics

5 min readJan 19, 2024

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Patrick Cerria

We Need to Train Teachers to Be More Creative

As Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida this past week, my first thoughts were with the people whose homes and lives were going to be…

6 min readOct 5, 2022

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Patrick Cerria

Nothing’s Going to Change

You read the title of this essay, and you know exactly what I’m talking about. On Tuesday morning nineteen parents said goodbye to their…

4 min readMay 26, 2022

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Patrick Cerria

How Music Can Change Education

I had the extreme pleasure of attending the SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas last week which truly was a wonderful experience. I was…

6 min readMar 18, 2022

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Patrick Cerria

The True Issues Confronting American Education

I must admit that writing on this topic, at this moment in time, made me a bit nervous. In case you haven’t noticed, education — not…

11 min readJan 3, 2022

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Patrick Cerria

The New Dynamic That is Education

In my last post I wrote about the start of this American school year and the enormous impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on school as…

6 min readSep 16, 2021

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Patrick Cerria

When September….Begins

As of the writing of this essay, we are just over five weeks away from September. Before you know it, the 2021–2022 school year will be…

5 min readAug 1, 2021

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Patrick Cerria

What Type of Education System Do We Want?

In the last ten months something happened regarding education in the United States: We have all become aware that the process of teaching…

12 min readJan 21, 2021

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Patrick Cerria

A Great Loss for Education

On my birthday of this year, one of the greatest minds in education sadly passed away. He was also, one of my inspirations.

5 min readSep 6, 2020

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Patrick Cerria

Patrick Cerria

I’m a music teacher, husband, father, author, speaker who teaches disabled & at-risk students. I write about education, philosophy & the absurdity of life.

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