Steven Van Zandt Honored at the First Annual Rock and Roll Forever Foundation Gala on Nov 23, 2019

St. Louis Meeting with Rock and
Roll Forever Foundation-2008

Guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt, a New Jersey native, will be honored for his commitment to arts education at the First Annual Rock and Roll Forever Foundation Gala on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York. 

The award recognizes Van Zandt’s founding of TeachRock, which provides a free, interdisciplinary, arts-driven curriculum for students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The TeachRock lesson plans are used by more than 20,000 registered teachers in all 50 states, including in Middletown.

It was back in August of 2008 when I met with Steven Van Zandth in St. Louis about the Rock and Roll Forever organization. Read more about that meeting by clicking HERE. 

The initial hope that the Hoboken School District would be able to incorporate some of the foundation's curricula materials and course guides into the district's K-12 Arts/Music curriculum material was explored extensively but apparently was never followed up upon after I left the district.