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12 NAfME Members Named 2025 CMA Foundation Music Teachers of Excellence On May 6, 2025, NAfME Music Education Policy Roundtable member CMA Foundation honored 30 music educators during Teacher Appreciation…
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Building Bridges in Music Education Pedagogy with Breath By NAfME Members Dr. José Leonardo Leon, D.M.A. and Dr. José Valentino Ruiz In the rhythms of our classrooms and rehearsal spaces,…
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Strike Up a Conversation Experience Where the Magic Leads By NAfME Member Lori Schwartz Reichl “One good conversation can shift the direction of the change forever.”— Linda Lam On a…
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Support Federal Funding Impacting Arts Education—FY 2026 Music and Arts Education Advocates, On May 2, President Trump released information about his administration’s FY 2026 budget proposal. Not all details were shared…
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Making Music for People, Not Just for Peers A Case for Audience-First Composition By NAfME Member José Valentino Ruiz, Ph.D. and Brian Bromberg, GRAMMY®-Nominated Bassist-Producer-Composer In jazz education and professional…
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Current Music and Audio Technology Students and Educators Need to Know By Lee Whitmore, sponsored by NAfME Corporate member Focusrite In the past decade a lot has changed in music…
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Music as a First-Person Account Confronting History in the Music Classroom This blog is sponsored by NAfME Corporate member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. First-person accounts are invaluable resources in History…
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A Movement Rooted in a Song The Founding of Let Music Fill My World By Cayley Tull, sponsored by NAfME Corporate member Let Music Fill My World. The idea for…
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Agency, Influence, and Connection in Challenging Times By NAfME Member Lisa Martin, Music Educators Journal Academic Editor This article first appeared in the March 2025 issue of Music Educators Journal.…
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What Should the Future of Music Education Look Like? By Deborah A. Confredo, President, 2024-2026 This is a longer version of the article first published here by Education and Career…
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