Hillcrest Educational Centers and WorkshopLive.com Team up to Make Strides in Music Education

Hillcrest Educational Centers, Inc. has announced a pilot educational program in partnership with WorkshopLive, the innovative Internet based music instruction service based in Pittsfield, MA. A generous donation from WorkshopLive has provided Hillcrest Educational Centers with a number of complimentary student accounts.

(PRWEB) July 10, 2008 -- Hillcrest Educational Centers, Inc. has announced a pilot educational program in partnership with WorkshopLive, the innovative Internet based music instruction service based in Pittsfield, MA. A generous donation from WorkshopLive has provided Hillcrest Educational Centers with a number of complimentary student accounts. This will allow Hillcrest students to participate in any number of the over 2,200 online, interactive guitar, keyboard and bass lessons available on the WorkshopLive website without leaving their school library at the High Point campus in Lenox.

After an initial musical assessment, Hillcrest students will participate in online web-based instruction sessions geared to their competence level and learning style. These students will be re-assessed at three, six and nine months and their feedback and the details of their progress will be shared with curriculum developers at WorkshopLive. This partnership is beneficial to the Hillcrest students as it allows them access to state of the art computerized instructional materials while providing WorkshopLive curriculum developers direct experience with students who have experienced difficulty in traditional instructional settings. An assessment at one year is planned with an eye towards expanding this partnership.

About Hillcrest Educational Centers

Hillcrest Educational Centers is a private not-for-profit organization that operates 4 residential treatment centers in Berkshire County for children and adolescents with unique psychological and learning needs. Hillcrest also operates the Housatonic Academy, a comprehensive educational and therapeutic day program, created specifically for Berkshire County children whose special needs cannot be met in a mainstream local public school setting.

About WorkshopLive.com

WorkshopLive.com represents the successful merger of award winning Web 2.0 technology and decades of music education experience to deliver the world's first truly interactive (& fun) music lessons for guitar, piano, bass and drums. Students are empowered to customize their innovative lesson tool and can also imitate a "real world" lesson experience by chatting with their instructor during live Webcasts for inspiration, motivation and feedback. WorkshopLive.com is a privately funded company based in Pittsfield, MA. Additional information is available at www.workshoplive.com.

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