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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.
INSPIRE Music Curriculum: Creative Music and Composition Projects for K-12 Teachers and Students
Welcome to National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Composition Council Music In Our Schools Month® 2025 creating and composition publication for educators working with K-12 and tertiary students! We have…
MIOSM Participation Certificate
Share how your school, chapter, or institution participated in Music In Our Schools Month this year! Fill out this form to receive your participation certificate. This form will close April…
2025 MIOSM Advocacy Social Media Toolkit
Happy 40th anniversary of Music In Our Schools Month®️ (MIOSM®️)! To celebrate this milestone this year’s theme is “United Through Music,” representing how music has the power to bring individuals…
“When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat” Lesson Plan
This lesson plan for 4th grade students uses the book/video When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat along with recordings of Ella Fitzgerald “You’ll Have to Swing It” and Louis Armstrong…
“Modern Band Meets the Secondary Choral Rehearsal” Lesson Plan
This plan is truly a 10-minute introduction, but it could carry over several rehearsals to give students an opportunity to revise their arrangement as well as their performance in collaboration…
“Scale Wars: A Music Theory Saga” Lesson Plan
This lesson could take one or two periods (or even three) to complete depending on scheduling. It leads students from learning the basic pattern of major scales to writing them…
“Favorite Song and Artist” Lesson Plan
Celebrate Music In Our Schools Month® by highlighting and sharing all the ways your school community is musical. Download this resource to learn more.
“Multiliterate Approach to Chord Lyric Notation in Class Guitar” Lesson Plan
Guitar classrooms are an ideal place to explore the concept of multiliteracy. Multiliteracy posits that a contemporary literacy curriculum should invite the reader to negotiate and create utilizing a multitude…
