Team: Steven Holochwost, Dennie Palmer Wolf
New Jersey Symphony’s Character, Achievement, and Music Project (CHAMPS). In 2012, NJS retained WolfBrown to assess the program’s impacts on participating students. Thus began a researcher-practitioner partnership between the staff and leadership of CHAMPS and WolfBrown. In retrospect, that partnership can be divided into three phases, delineated by the changing goals of the program and the orchestra.