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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FEATURES AND NEWS

Diversity in the Choral Classroom: Adversity or Electricity?

Diversity in the Choral Classroom: Adversity or Electricity? By NAfME Member Dee Ann Gray “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization.” – Mahatma Gandhi Congratulations! You’ve just accepted a choral teaching position in a Title I school in Hawaii, and arrive five weeks into the semester, only to be greeted by suspicious, unfriendly faces with unfamiliar customs and points of view. What do you do? How do you build trust, and foster a sense of teamwork and musical success where…

NAfME Endorses Rep. Velazquez’s GAAME Act of 2018

The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is pleased to announce our endorsement of Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s (D-NY-7) Guarantee Access to Arts and Music Education (GAAME) Act (H.R. 6137), released earlier today. Often, students of color and students in low-income neighborhoods do not share the same access to a high-quality music and arts education. If passed, this legislation would provide articulating language to encourage school districts to use their Title I, Part A Funds (school-wide and targeted assistance grants) to improve access to music and arts education for disadvantaged and…

How My Mentor Saved My Professional Life

How My Mentor Saved My Professional Life By NAfME Member Chris Gleason This article first appeared in the Sun Prairie Star and is reprinted with permission. The day before my first concert the student band was falling apart. I called my father, a veteran band director, for some last-minute advice. He said, “Write up something about the music and give it to a student to read to the audience before you play the piece.” The next day, with the band assembled on stage and the crowd listening intently,…