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      • Bittersweet Stables: All About Horses
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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
      • Spring Creek Equestrian Center
    • Art Classes >
      • Architecture
      • Buchanan Art Center
      • Miniature Furniture Construction
      • Ceramics/Pottery >
        • Ceramics with Jill Dodge
        • Wheel Fun Pottery!
      • Creative Design with Robert Ritzenthaler
      • Collage
      • Design Street in Plainwell
      • Drawing and Painting Classes: see tabs >
        • Drawing with Niki McNeil
        • Calligraphy: Lettering By Hand
        • Elementary Art with Jill Dodge
        • Elements of Design
        • Janine Frizzo: Drawing, Painting or Sculpture
        • Observational Drawing 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
      • Nature and Community Arts
      • Photography and Videography >
        • Adventures in Photography with Katie
        • Digital Photography
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      • Stained Glass Options >
        • Stained Glass: Stevensville: Heidi Martin
      • Water Street Glassworks >
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        • Artistic Welding
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    • Dance >
      • Bangor and Coloma Dance Studios
      • Benton Harbor Dance Studios
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      • Indiana Dance Studios
      • Kalamazoo Dance Studios
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      • Sawyer Dance Studios
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    • CTE: Career and Technical Education
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      • The MainStage
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      • Michigan's Northern Resources
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        • Bridge to China
        • Conversational Spanish
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        • American Girl Project
        • Blacksmithing: Ted Guimond
        • Janine Frizzo - Blacksmith I & II
        • Janine Frizzo - Colonial Studies
      • Sign Language
    • Internships >
      • Maria Dahn: Project Management or Research Administration
    • Life Skills >
      • Cooking >
        • Janine Frizzo - Cooking with class (Little Red Hen)
      • Crochet: with Niki McNeil
      • Knitting: With Maria Dahn
      • Sewing and Textiles >
        • Creative Sewing with Jessica Yoder
        • Ground Zero Sewing - Prairie Days
        • Sew Fun: Intro to Sewing
        • Sewing or Quilting: Doreen Cox
        • Sewing and Quilting: Robin English
        • Sewing or Quilting: Tara Behrman
        • Sewing: Jackie Ransom
        • Janine Frizzo - Sewing, tailoring and textiles with Janine Frizzo
        • Janine Frizzo - Sheep to Shawl
        • Sewing with Gabrielle Zook
    • Music >
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        • Voice
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        • Cello
        • Guitar
        • Percussion
        • Other Instruments
      • Music Lessons: Group >
        • Be in a Band: Jon Whidden
        • Dave Carlock's FRS Program
        • Janine Frizzo: Folk Music
        • Kindermusik at The Citadel
        • Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra
        • The Music Academies - Niles
        • School of American Music
        • West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts
    • Nature/Environment >
      • Community & Landscape Workshop
      • Habitats And Wildlife
      • Love Creek: Outdoor Explorers
      • Nature Heritage 1
      • Sarett: Nature Explorers
      • Syrup to Cider: A Year of Eating and Growing Locally
      • Wilderness and Culture
    • Physical Education >
      • Fencing
      • Gymnastics >
        • Elite Sports Academy
        • Gymnastics: Kalamazoo and IN
        • Infinite Gymnastics at Andrews
        • Kids' Gym: Portage
        • Power In Motion
        • YMCA gymnastics
      • Martial Arts
      • Physical Fitness & Sports >
        • Archery
        • Basketball >
          • Basketball: Andrews Jr. Cardinals
          • Basketball: Boys: GBSRD: Greater Berrien Springs Recreational Department
          • Basketball: Niles with Dan Oates
          • Basketball: Upward Michiana Sports
          • Basketball: YMCA
        • CrossFit Locations
        • Diving: Bridgman Pool
        • Golf
        • Grace Christian Sports
        • Ground Zero: Fitness In Archery
        • Hockey: BAHA Blades
        • Ice Skating: Learn to Skate: Garden Ice Arena
        • Kalamazoo YMCA classes
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the BH/SJ YMCA
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the Niles-Buchanan YMCA
        • Soccer >
          • Soccer: Kickers or Kingdom Sports
          • Soccer: SWM or YMCA
        • Tennis: Group Lessons
        • Volleyball >
          • Ground Zero Volleyball
          • Volleyball: Southwest and Other
        • Yoga
        • Youth Dance Fitness Training
      • Swim and Gym Locations
      • Swim Lessons/Swim Teams >
        • Group Swim Lessons: various locations
        • Lifeguarding Certification and Junior Lifeguarding
        • St. Joseph Aquatics (SJA)
        • 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
      • Robotics and Roller Engineering
    • Vocational Education >
      • Auto Mechanics
      • Ground Zero - Know Your Bow
      • Woodworking >
        • Woodworking with Tom Hurst
        • Woodworking with Jim
  • Dual Enrollment / CTE
    • What is Dual Enrollment?
    • Andrews University
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Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy​​​
​Private Lessons for Percussion    
​One lesson per week is covered up to our maximum allowance.  Choose Private Music: Percussion.
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

West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts, www.wmhfa.org

​Marc Churchill,  Benton Harbor and Berrien Springs   marcchurchill170@comcast.net  

Timothy Cincala, ​Berrien Springs, Drum Set, 269-769-8219,  cincala.t@gmail.com

Michael (Scooter) DeLong: 219-277-4909   

​Ron Hull, St. Joseph, perhaps Berrien Springs   574-292-2044 

Matt Moser,  Kalamazoo,  269-492-5598    mdrumz@juno.com 
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​Syllabus
Teacher of Record: Mandy Jankoviak​