Jack Aron

CompositionCurriculum DesignDigital InstrumentsDigital Music PedagogyDigital Music ProductionDJ and Live AudioGeneral MusicMusic TechMusic ProductionMusic TheoryNotation SoftwareMusic Fundamentals
Written By Dr. Elisa Janson Jones
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Jack Green Aron (b. 1996) is a composer, performer, and educator based in Culver City, California. In the past few years, he has worked as an instructor for organizations such as Young Producers Group (YPG) and the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra (LAIO), all the while creating and developing the CTE Music Technology program at Culver City High School. He has designed curriculum with CTE, California Arts, and National Arts standards, and expanded on a partnership with 1500 Sound Academy to add pre-apprenticeship opportunities to his program.

 
 
 

  • From my time as a UCLA student in music education, studying under professors Dr. Lily-Chen Haftek and Dr. Frank Heuser, I made use of many of the teaching practices and theories they taught me. These included the Orff methodology, wherein students are expected to improvise and compose simple melodic ideas, which I was able to adapt into production-based lessons (i.e. using Orff improvisatory/structuring techniques to approach producing in a DAW). But the big revelations came when I worked for YPG for a year as an instructor. In my time working for YPG, I was exposed to a lot of different teaching practices with regards to music production education, including many that CEO of YPG Lawrence Grey has pioneered himself. How an instructor sequences lessons in a curriculum might be one of the most important ways to advance skill acquisition, and it has greatly helped me in how I pace the material and content I instruct to students.

  • I have a fair amount of experience being a mentor, as well as mentee, in education. When I did consulting work for the company Subject, I had to work in various sessions explaining music production based curriculum/content to other educators and EdTech industry professionals. I have worked extensively with graduates from the Music Education program at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, coaching them as they transition into their roles as "music tech" educators. At my current job as the Culver City High School music technology teacher, I continue to mentor new music educators in the district and help more veteran music educators use technology in their classrooms.

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Dr. Elisa Janson Jones

Dr. Elisa Jones designs and scales learning systems for organizations and individuals. With an EdD in Instructional Design, an MBA in Strategy, and 20+ years of experience in research, strategy, and training, she combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

She works at the intersection of people, systems, and technology—helping leaders identify what's working and what needs to change. Her approach is diagnostic, grounded in real-world constraints, and focused on scalable and durable outcomes.

https://elisajanson.com
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