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Recruiting and Maintaining a Diversified Teacher Workforce

Closing Opportunity Gaps to Student Access to Well-Prepared Teachers Our nation is currently facing a teacher shortage. Across the country educators are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. Experienced…

Assessing the Standards: An Exploration of the Respond Model Cornerstone Assessment

Assessing the Standards An Exploration of the Respond Model Cornerstone Assessment By NAfME Member Emily Hatch This article first appeared in the April 2022 issue of Journal of General Music…

Nearly Half of the 2023 GRAMMY Music Educator AwardTM Quarterfinalists Are NAfME Members

Nearly Half of the 2023 GRAMMY Music Educator AwardTM Quarterfinalists Are NAfME Members The Music Educator Award Is Presented by The Recording AcademyTM and the GRAMMY Museum® The Recording Academy™ and GRAMMY…

Reevaluating Professional Practice

Reevaluating Professional Practice Experimenting with the New and Interrogating the Old in Ensemble Music Education By NAfME Member Brian N. Weidner As a new band director, I remember having a…

The Importance of Knowledge Transfer in Music Education

The Importance of Knowledge Transfer in Music Education Music educators can benefit from reflecting on past experiences and applying these ideas and skills to their current endeavors. By LaToya A.…

Star-Songs and Constellations: Lessons from the Global Jukebox

Star-Songs and Constellations Lessons from the Global Jukebox By Patricia Shehan Campbell  This article first appeared in the September 2021 issue of Music Educators Journal. In a time of attention…

5 Things Teachers Can Do to Recharge over the Summer

5 Things Teachers Can Do to Recharge over the Summer By NAfME Member Lori Schwartz Reichl with Jaime Bonato “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a…

Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s Picture Books, Part Sixteen

Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s Picture Books, Part Sixteen By Thomas Amoriello Jr., Past Chair of the NAfME Council for Guitar Education The “Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s…

Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s Picture Books, Part Fifteen

Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s Picture Books, Part Fifteen By Thomas Amoriello Jr., Past Chair of the NAfME Council for Guitar Education The “Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s…

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 with permission from “Entering the Music Teaching Profession: Strategies for Navigating the…