We Are All Musicians
25 Imaginative Song-Based Activities for Inclusive Music Classrooms
About the Book
Left to right: authors Jon Burgos and Jessica Corwin, artist Isaiah Eddington, advisor/music therapist Jen Kass
Every child is a musician — including the students most music curricula leave behind. Written by working adaptive music teachers Jon Burgos and Jessica Corwin, We Are All Musicians is a classroom-tested collection of 25 original, imaginative, song-based activities that bring disabled children — including nonspeaking, autistic, and physically disabled students with complex support needs — into the full, joyful experience of making music together.
Our premise is simple: engagement looks many different ways, and so does musicianship. A nonspeaking child can meaningfully participate in a thoughtfully-designed singing activity. A child with minimal motor control can choose what happens next from a choice board. Students take part with dignity and joy through singing, listening, playing instruments, movement, props, visual art, making choices, and repetition that build familiarity, confidence, and connection.
This is a practical activity collection, not a textbook. The activities are appropriate in both sub-separate and inclusion classrooms with mixed student profiles, preschool through fifth grade and can also be used in home and music therapy settings. Each song comes with a clear classroom format, suggested adaptations, and extension ideas. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), every activity offers multiple access points that remove barriers and meet each learner where they are.
Each purchase of a spiral-bound physical book includes online access to ready-to-print choice boards and choice cards, visual aids, color-coded alternate music notation, demonstration and discussion videos, downloadable visual-schedule icons, and recorded accompaniments. The collection is also available in an all-digital form. Every song, illustration, and digital resource was created by independent artists and educators without the use of AI. This appears to be the first published music activity collection to pair original songs with ready-to-print choice boards. Add this ground-breaking collection to your repertoire today!
The 25 song-activities are: Animal Kingdom, Bucky Sebastian the Octopus, Bumpy Ride, Buzz Buzz Buzz, Calming Ocean, Casey Caterpillar, Counting Foxes, El Hipo, Fireflies, Fizzy Drink, Gato Gato Gato, Goodbye My Friends, Hatching Egg, Hello Hello, Hi Hello What’s Up, Hop Baby Joey, La Clave, Mr. Piggy, One Bad Day, Paint Shake, Pingüino, Pizza Night, Rumble in My Tummy, Summer Sun & Watermelon, and Where’s My Other Shoe?. Five of the songs are bilingual in English and Spanish, reflecting the combined linguistic heritages of the authors.
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Every child is a musician — including the students most music curricula leave behind. Written by working adaptive music teachers Jon Burgos and Jessica Corwin, We Are All Musicians is a classroom-tested collection of 25 original, imaginative, song-based activities that bring disabled children — including nonspeaking, autistic, and physically disabled students with complex support needs — into the full, joyful experience of making music together.
Our premise is simple: engagement looks many different ways, and so does musicianship. A nonspeaking child can meaningfully participate in a singing activity. A child with minimal motor control can choose what happens next from a choice board. Students take part with dignity and joy through singing, listening, playing instruments, movement, props, visual art, making choices, and repetition that build familiarity, confidence, and connection.
This is a practical activity collection, not a textbook. The activities are appropriate in both sub-separate and inclusion classrooms with mixed student profiles, preschool through fifth grade and can also be used in home and music therapy settings. Each song comes with a clear classroom format, suggested adaptations, and extension ideas. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), every activity offers multiple access points that remove barriers and meet each learner where they are.
Each purchase of a spiral-bound physical book includes online access to ready-to-print choice boards and choice cards, visual aids, color-coded alternate music notation, demonstration and discussion videos, downloadable visual-schedule icons, and recorded accompaniments. The collection is also available in an all-digital form. Every song, illustration, and digital resource was created by independent artists and educators without the use of AI. This appears to be the first published music activity collection to pair original songs with ready-to-print choice boards. Add this ground-breaking collection to your repertoire today!
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The 25 song-activities are: Animal Kingdom, Bucky Sebastian the Octopus, Bumpy Ride, Buzz Buzz Buzz, Calming Ocean, Casey Caterpillar, Counting Foxes, El Hipo, Fireflies, Fizzy Drink, Gato Gato Gato, Goodbye My Friends, Hatching Egg, Hello Hello, Hi Hello What’s Up, Hop Baby Joey, La Clave, Mr. Piggy, One Bad Day, Paint Shake, Pingüino, Pizza Night, Rumble in My Tummy, Summer Sun & Watermelon, and Where’s My Other Shoe?.
NEW 9/14/26: Save $25 on ONLINE Intro to Adaptive Music Education tuition (starting 10/1/26) when you buy We Are All Musicians. Discount automatically applied at checkout. If you have already purchased WAAM and would like the tuition discount, email Jess at jc@music-access.com.
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