Featured Resources
Fact sheets, guides, webinars, talking points, reports and more to equip music educators with the tools you need to succeed in the classroom and to help advance the profession.
NAfME offers an extensive resource library to help educators teach music and advocate for music programs.
Music Model Cornerstone Assessments
The Model Cornerstone Assessments (MCAs) provide an instructional and assessment framework into which teachers integrate their curriculum to help measure student learning. Each school program has a unique population and circumstances…
Guitar Best Practices: Years 1, 2, 3 and 4
The NAfME Council for Guitar Education collaborated and compiled lists of Guitar Best Practices for each year of study. They comprise a set of technical skills, music experiences, and music theory knowledge that guitar students should know through their scholastic career.
Workbook for Building and Evaluating Effective Music Education in General Music
The Workbooks continue to include materials to help music educators evaluate the quality of their program, as well as tools to help music educators discuss teacher evaluation within the context of their music classroom with school administrators. Added are materials to help assess student growth and to help identify specific music classroom practices that exemplify appropriate music teaching strategies.
Celebrating and Elevating the Small-School Experience
Educators in small schools share their perspectives and their joys about teaching music. We asked more than a dozen experienced small school music educators to define “small school.”
Copyright Guidance for Distance Learning for Music Educators
A Resource from National Association for Music Education and National Federation of High Schools The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act provides certain protections for music education while distance…
Music Teacher Profession Initiative (MTPI) Town Hall Recording
Watch the recording of the Music Teacher Profession Initiative (MTPI) Town Hall on June 16, 2023 to learn about the MTPI task force’s process, outcomes, and recommendations to identify and…
Teacher To Teacher: Tips for Getting the School Year Off to a Great Start
This article first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Teaching Music. Teaching Music asked music educators from around the country to provide their top recommendations for preparing for a…
The Music Education Advocate Podcast: Episode 10 – Federal Landscape Update Part 2
Join Amanda Karhuse, NAfME Assistant Executive Director for Advocacy and Public Policy; Zachary Keita, NAfME Advocacy and Public Policy Communications Manager; and podcast host Jazzmone Sutton, NAfME State Advocacy Engagement…
