FORT COLLINS - The Bohemian Foundation has formed a partnership with national nonprofit Little Kids Rock to expand its music programming to Poudre School District over the next three years.

Bohemian is providing a $375,000 grant to Little Kids Rock to bring its program to PSD schools. Little Kids Rock hopes to leverage the grant into $1 million worth of instruments, lessons and curriculum.

Little Kids Rock will train 25-30 teachers on Feb. 4 and 5 at Lesher Middle School in Fort Collins. It will also donate resources to the district to assist teachers in educating children to perform, improvise and compose music.

"We are eager to see how some of our teacher will utilize the training from Little Kids Rock," said Todd Lambert, PSD director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. "We believe this may give our teachers an additional way of motivating our students to explore music and we're grateful to Bohemian Foundation for their continued generous support of the students and families of Poudre School District."