screenshot of one student playing bass while special needs student listens and touches the bass


McKinney, Texas — “’All means all,’ kind of became our motto through this, and then I realized how seamlessly it fit in with McKinney ISD.”

Bethany Hardwick joined the Scott Johnson campus last year as orchestra director, and she couldn’t wait to implement a program called Giving Bach, where special education students join their peers in beginner orchestra. This inclusion class aims to be nothing out of the ordinary. Instead, Ms. Hardwick focuses on the opportunity to give all students the chance to experience music – together.