2018 NAfME National Conference

Join us again in Dallas, TX, as we take a deep dive into leading topics in music education. The following tracks, or “Opuses,” will allow you to share your own practice, collaborate and network with colleagues from across the country, and expand your toolkit of ideas, models, and activities: Amplify: Learning; Amplify: Innovation; Amplify: Involvement; Amplify: Inspiration; and Amplify: Technology. You can earn up to 30 hours of professional development by attending the conference. Justification Toolkit is now available. Sponsorship opportunities are available.

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House Releases Labor, HHS, Education Bill for FY 2019

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The School Music Radio Show!

The School Music Radio Show! By Adam Perlmutter This article first appeared in the August 2017 issue of Teaching Music. Katie Carlisle, associate professor of music education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, sees many benefits in using a contemporary radio show format in the classroom: “They can depict real or imagined people, places, and events. Within all of this, there is opportunity for composition and improvisation”—works that, incidentally, can be submitted to the NAfME Student Composers Competition. Carlisle finds that there are different ways to explore…

Lighting a Fire in Middle School Kids

Lighting a Fire in Middle School Kids Student Engagement in Music Class By NAfME Member Chris Gleason When I was a young teacher, I didn’t think about student engagement. Survival was my primary goal. I was happy if I was able to get through my content while the kids sat quietly. After some time, I began to realize that engagement is more than kids just sitting quietly while words wash over them. Engagement is messy. Engagement at times can be rambunctious, exciting, and yes, loud. It’s not the…