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Virtual Symposium on Music Education and Students with Disabilities and/or Living in Poverty. Saturday, November 15, 2025. A free, virtual event for music educators

Music Education and Students with Disabilities and/or Living in Poverty: A NAfME Virtual Symposium

Where is the field of music in special education and the care of students who live in poverty heading in the next 10 years? How can we prepare to be…

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NAfME webinar

Accessible Music Education Strategies to Reach Every Student

Learn how to reach every learner, no matter how they learn best, by incorporating Accessible Music Education strategies. You will leave the webinar with new tools that you can use…

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NAfME webinar

Combining Trauma Informed Pedagogy with the Active Learning Cycle

The purpose of this session is to provide music educators with strategies to combine and implement trauma informed pedagogy (TIP) and the active learning cycle into the classroom. Using the…

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NAfME webinar

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Native Music Curriculum

Speak/Sing Native™ is a free K-12 music curriculum featuring contemporary Native artists and musicians. Developed in partnership with the Jim Pepper Native Arts Council, the Oregon Department of Education, and…

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NAfME webinar

Hip Hop, Neurodivergence, and the Music Classroom: A New Groove

Hip hop can serve as a transformative tool for engaging neurodivergent learners and fostering creativity, expression, and social connection. With its rich cultural roots and dynamic, expressive nature, hip hop…

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Music Teachers, Music Therapists, and Professors, Working Together for Children

Your school music therapist can be your valued collaborator when you need help with music strategies for your students with IEPs. This webinar will offer approaches from a general music…

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NAfME webinar

Breaking the Silence: The Experiences of Female Band Directors

This presentation helps music educators, supervisors of music educators, and anyone with direct contact with music educators to understand what types of experiences sometimes occur daily in the lives of…

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Music for All: Engaging All Learners in the Accessible Music Classroom

The music classroom can easily be an environment that provides multiple ways for all students to have access to high-quality music-making. While focusing on engaging students who have higher support…

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NAfME webinar

Is It Possible? LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Elementary Music

Registration for this webinar is now closed. Have you ever questioned if elementary school is an appropriate age to discuss the LGBTQ+ community? Have you searched for age-appropriate ways to…

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NAfME webinar

Beyond Diversity: Designing Culturally Responsive Music Instruction

We can all agree that music is for everyone. The question is: what are we doing as music educators to make equitable access to high-quality, rigorous music programs—where learners not…

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