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Should schools scrap or limit music education classes in favour of more academically rigorous lessons? Data suggests not. Despite its potentially high cost, there may be more benefits to music education than meets the eye, including from…
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Supporting Music Education Choose to Teach How do you know if you want to become a music teacher? Some students just know and others make that decision when considering career options. For many students, sharing the joy of music…
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Supporting Music Education: Audience Guidelines Becoming a discerning, supportive and knowledgeable audience member is an important part of a student’s education. Successful audience participation requires skill, discretion, common…
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We can all remember the excitement of our first performance—dressing uniformly; being the center of attention yet within the security of a group setting; and especially hearing the rousing applause of an excited and supportive audience!…
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Supporting Music Education: Work with the Best! Teaching is a people business. Identifying and hiring the best-prepared and motivated candidates for a position is the most important thing we can do for our students, our programs and…
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KHS AMERICA HELPS FUTURE MUSIC EDCUATOR WITH COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP KHS America President EmeritusTabor Stamper presents a $1,000 college scholarship to USAAAMB Member Elissa Travis. Mt. Juliet, TN - February, 2018 - Each year KHS…
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Not many people see band directors as educators with an especially difficult career. For most, we don't blame them. How would the average person know? But for others, like administrators, teachers and colleagues, it's really a shame they…
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All too often band and orchestra directors find themselves "preaching to the choir" (literally!), trying to convince the "already converted" of the value of music in our schools. The audience enthusiastically agrees, everyone leaves with…
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New Data Overwhelming Although I have been previously asked to document music education’s relationship to the general curricula, previous data while interesting, did not address a more broad set of variables influencing academic success.…
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Mentoring the Leaders of Tommorow: The NBA Composer/Conductor Mentor Project Composer Roy Magnuson got more than he bargained for when he applied and was accepted for the NBA Young Composer/Conductor Mentor project this summer.…
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Telling the Story: What Administrators Can Do Your administrative team—principal and superintendent—allocate time and resources for instruction. Their support is critical to developing a climate in which your arts program can grow.…
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FIRST PERFORMANCE NATIONAL DAY OF CELEBRATION COMPLIMENTARY MATERIALS Download your complimentary materials NOW to prepare for your First Performance National Day of Celebration. The First Performance National Day of Celebration is a…
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Music programs are faced again with cutbacks as states across the country grapple with huge budget deficits. These reductions have already been felt in many Michigan districts. Utica Community Schools, the second largest school district in…
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