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      • Horses from Head to Tail: Circle C Stables
      • Ground Zero - Exploring Equine Education
      • Mounted Archery
      • Horse Care and Management with Patsy Little
      • Janine Frizzo: Small Animal Husbandry
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      • Architecture
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        • Ceramics with Jill Dodge
        • Wheel Fun Pottery!
      • Creative Design with Robert Ritzenthaler
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      • Drawing and Painting Classes: see tabs >
        • Drawing with Niki McNeil
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        • Elementary Art with Jill Dodge
        • Elements of Design
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        • Animal Art with Lori Ehlke
        • Young Rembrandts
      • Jewelry /Beadwork >
        • Beadwork: with Kim Bollman
        • Jewelry with Kim Bollman
      • FLC: Art and Culture Around the World
      • Ground Zero: Archery Art
      • Krasl Art Center
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        • Photography with Robert Ritzenthaler
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        • Stained Glass: Stevensville: Heidi Martin
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      • Foreign Languages >
        • Battle Creek Japanese School
        • Bridge to China
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      • Historical Arts & Technology >
        • American Girl Project
        • Janine Frizzo - Colonial Studies
      • Re-enactment Arts >
        • Archery
        • Blacksmithing: Ted Guimond
        • Blacksmith I & II: Birchbank Farms
        • Fencing: Blue Steel
        • Historic Dance
    • Life Skills >
      • Cooking >
        • Janine Frizzo - Cooking with class (Little Red Hen)
      • Crochet: with Niki McNeil
      • Sewing and Textiles >
        • Creative Sewing with Jessica Yoder
        • Ground Zero Sewing - Prairie Days
        • Quilting: Beginning
        • Sewing or Quilting: Doreen Cox
        • Sewing and Quilting: Robin English
        • Sewing: Jackie Ransom
        • Janine Frizzo - Sewing, tailoring and textiles with Janine Frizzo
        • Janine Frizzo - Sheep to Shawl
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        • Dave Carlock's FRS Program
        • Folk Music: Birchbank Farms
        • Kindermusik at The Citadel
        • Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra
        • The Music Academies - Niles
        • School of American Music
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      • Community & Landscape Workshop
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      • Nature Heritage 1
      • Sarett: Nature Explorers
      • Syrup to Cider: A Year of Eating and Growing Locally
      • Wilderness and Culture
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      • Martial Arts
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        • Basketball >
          • Basketball: Andrews Jr. Cardinals
          • Basketball: Niles with Dan Oates
          • Basketball: YMCA
        • CrossFit Locations
        • Ground Zero: Fitness In Archery
        • Hockey: BAHA Blades
        • Ice Skating: Learn to Skate: Garden Ice Arena
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the BH/SJ YMCA
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the Niles-Buchanan YMCA
        • Soccer >
          • Soccer: Kickers or Kingdom Sports
          • Soccer: YMCA
        • Tennis: Group Lessons
        • Volleyball >
          • Ground Zero Volleyball
          • Volleyball: Southwest and Other
      • Rock Climbing
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        • Group Swim Lessons: various locations
        • Lifeguarding Certification and Junior Lifeguarding
        • Swim Clubs
    • Technology >
      • EEME: Electronics Kits
      • Fab Lab, Intro to Digital Fabrication with Tom Hurst
      • FLC Tech Classes
      • Intro to Electronic Music
      • Intro to Recording Studio
      • Robotics: Meg Edwards
      • Self--STEAM Robotics, Engineering, and Coding
    • Vocational Education >
      • Auto Mechanics
      • Ground Zero - Know Your Bow
      • Woodworking >
        • Woodworking with Tom Hurst
        • Woodworking with Jim
  • Dual Enrollment / CTE
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Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy​​​
Private Lessons for Guitar     
​One lesson per week is covered up to our maximum allowance.
If your instructor advises more time is needed, you must also select  Private Music Lesson: Intensive (for 6th-12th only).
Teachers will have to invoice the Partnership to receive payment. Teachers must contact Tanya at hspdocuments@shamrocks.us to receive paperwork to be eligible to teach and invoice Partnership students.
***Music teachers who teach Partnership students BEFORE being approved by the Partnership will not be paid for their efforts.
Choose from the list or select your own teacher and have them contact us for more information on how our program works!
​Teacher qualifications available by request, email hspdocuments@shamrocks.us  .

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Citadel Dance and Music Center: Contact Susan Dietrich-Reed:  Benton Harbor:  925-1099   www.citadelDMC.org

​Music Academies (Val Rumpf), Niles: 362-5780  http:/www.themusicacademies.com

School of American Music, Three Oaks Library: 269-409-1191   http://schoolofamericanmusic.com

Southwest Michigan School of Music, Stevensville:    429-PLAY (7529)  swmischool@gmail.com



Kenny Balos, Buchanan: kabguitar@gmail.com

Jan Burda, Berrien Springs: 269-325-5717 or call 471-4111

Dave Carlock's FRS Program, Benton Harbor Orchards Mall, #310-480-4565, customerservice@funkinrockschool.com , Click here

​Matthew Chancey: Berrien Springs: (423)667-2478   chanceyland88@yahoo.com

Nathanael Cincala,  269-769-8216,  nathanael.cincala@gmail.com

​Mike Davis, Niles:  269-684-4851   or 574-298-4600  gitrmike@gmail.com

Hugh Duncan, Buchanan:   breezewaymedia@gmail.com    cell: 417-569-5216

Marnie Heyn, St. Joseph   marnieheyn@yahoo.com    921-8265

John Humphrey, New Buffalo and surrounding areas, 773-406-9897,  jhrey66@gmail.som

​Vladimir Slavujevic, to your home within 5 mi. of Berrien Springs,  otherwise in Berrien Springs    vladoslavujevic@yahoo.com    473-2826

​Geoff Stockton,  Portage,  269-321-0415,   somkz@marshallmusic.com

Randall Ulangca,  Berrien Springs, 720-357-5838,  trumpetninja95@gmail.com  ​

West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts, www.wmhfa.org

Lawrence Woodhams, Eau Claire, lwoodhams@hotmail.com   575-390-2499

​Syllabus
​Teacher of Record: Mandy Jankoviak