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NAfME webinar

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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NAfME webinar

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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NAfME webinar

Welcoming LGBTQ+ Students in the Music Classroom

As music educators, it is our job to ensure that every student feels safe, supported, and welcome in our classrooms. This is especially true for students in marginalized groups, such…

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NAfME webinar

Inclusion within the Multilingual Music Classroom

As our classrooms diversify, the languages with which our students engage are more than just mainstream English. Music educators need tools to create linguistically responsive classrooms that aim to improve…

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NAfME webinar

Reimagining Arts Standards through Centering Students

Creating a Community for All Learners: Reimagining Arts Standards through Centering Students As a member of the National Coalition for Arts Standards (NCAS), NAfME is participating in “Reimagining Standards-Based Arts…

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Strategic Plan

NAfME Releases New Strategic Plan Moving the Music Education Profession Progressively Forward

For Immediate Release Contact: Catherina Hurlburt catherinah@nafme.org or (571) 323-3395 National Association for Music Education Releases New Strategic Plan Moving the Music Education Profession Progressively Forward RESTON, VA (November 22,…

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Embracing Local Indigenous Peoples’ Ways and Musics in School Music Classes 

First Peoples’ Ways Forward:   Embracing Local Indigenous Peoples’ Ways and Musics in School Music Classes By NAfME Members Anita Prest, J. Scott Goble, and Hector Vazquez-Cordoba   This blog refers to…

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