Guiding Success

a pathway that will guide their success from kindergarten to college. Our Program

Guiding Success is a program developed by League of Florida Orchestras, Inc. in partnership with All About Kids VPK Music Academy. This program was introduced to the community during a special summer music camp in 2011 and the first group of graduates was named The J.H. Walker String Ensemble in recognition of the kind contribution of Ms. Joann Walker, owner of All About Kids Preschool. Reaching our annual goal of raising $150,000 means that each year we will be able to present 74 children with scholarship vouchers to cover the cost of participating in our program while providing service hundreds more at a very low cost to parents. These vouchers provide music lessons, instruments, and music mentors to students - beginning with the violin, while still in preschool. This will also enable students to participate in the J.H. Walker String Ensemble. The Future

A college savings account is established for each student and financial literacy training is provided to the parents in order to help them guide the child's financial decisions from kindergarten through college. It has been said that music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination. Research has shown that children, through music in the early childhood environment and by opening a college savings account in their name, are seven times more likely to go to college. Most of the students in this ensemble enrolled at four years old and are now excelling in their first few years of public school.