Thank you for your work in music education! Even on the hardest days, your students are still so lucky to call you their teacher.
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Show Me (How to Get) the Money: A Look at New Federal Funds for Music Education
By Marcia Neel, Heather Mansell, and Dr. Dave Gerhart
Most educators are not aware that billions of dollars in federal funding are available for schools and districts to use to support arts education.
Taking Care of You: Body, Mind, and Spirit
This post was updated on 5/19/2023.
The winter can be a stressful for music teachers as you navigate performances, contests, academic testing, and more.
Promoting an LGBT+ Inclusive Classroom
A teacher’s moral disposition and personal bias often dictate the degree of inclusion demonstrated in the classroom. Unfortunately, at an institutional level, the term diversity is almost exclusively measured by race, cultural identity, and socio-economic status (SES).
Maximizing the School Counselor’s Impact
The secretary. The custodian. The counselor. These people in your building play an often behind-the-scenes, yet vitally important, role in your program’s success.
The S.M.A.R.T. Approach to Music Ensemble Student Retention
Once students are in your program, it’s vital that you retain them. Retention starts with our very beginning-level students and it is vital that we focus on keeping them once they have started in the program.
Data Collection and Music Program Fundraising
Fundraising is a necessary “evil,” required for most of our programs to survive and flourish. Unfortunately, few music educators were also trained as accountants.