Certification/Licensure

Redefining “Professional Student”: Why It Matters for Future Music Educators

Redefining “Professional Student” and Why It Matters for Future Music Educators By Amber Friel, NAfME Communications Manager, Advocacy and Public Policy In July 2025, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful…

Missing Voices: A Research Agenda for Music Education Admissions Practices

Missing Voices A Research Agenda for Music Education Admissions Practices By Ann Marie Stanley This article first appeared in the February 2025 issue of Journal of Music Teacher Education (JMTE).…

The Lived Experiences of Black Undergraduate Music Education Students in Predominantly White Schools of Music

We Wear the Mask The Lived Experiences of Black Undergraduate Music Education Students in Predominantly White Schools of Music By NAfME Member Quinton D. Parker This article first appeared in…

What Can You Do with a Music Education Degree?

What Can You Do with a Music Education Degree? Sponsored by NAfME Corporate Member Kent State University This blog first appeared on the Kent State Online blog. Kent State University…

Strategies for Navigating the Music Education Major for Incoming and Transfer Students

Strategies for Navigating the Music Education Major for Incoming and Transfer Students By Phillip D. Payne, Natalie Steele Royston, Adrian D. Barnes, and Kate M. Bertelli-Wilinski This article is adapted…

UF Music Education Grad Becomes a Published Composer

UF Music Education Grad Becomes a Published Composer Sponsored by University of Florida, Online Master of Music in Music Education When Cooper Ford, a music teacher at North Brunswick Township…

Full Time Equivalency and Its Place in a Post-Pandemic World

Full Time Equivalency and Its Place in a Post-Pandemic World  What Is FTE? By NAfME Member William Brandt  Full Time Equivalency, or FTE as we know it, is a system…

Creative and Engaging Experiences for Student Teachers

Challenges Lead to Opportunities! Creative and Engaging Experiences for Student Teachers By NAfME Members Keith Hodgson and Jenny L. Neff, Music Educators at The University of the Arts Challenges  In…

Five Things to Do in Your First Five Years of Teaching

Five Things to Do in Your First Five Years Advice for New Music Educators By NAfME Member Audrey Carballo Five years sounds like a very long time, but in the…