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Jeremy Lumpkin is the band director at Hillgrove High School near Atlanta, Georgia, where in just a few short years the jazz program received an invitation to perform at the…
In this interview with NAfME’s Council for Jazz Education Chair Bethany Robinson, Lisa Linde discusses how she’s continued to build a culture of inclusion and excellence even amidst administrative scheduling…
In this interview, Roosevelt Griffin III discusses how to get young students comfortable with improvising. Founder of the Griffin Institute of Performing Arts NFP, Roosevelt holds the Dyett Chair for…
This webinar features the NAfME Advocacy and Public Policy team and explores how recent executive orders and administration actions, funding decisions, and other policy priorities could impact your program and…
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…
Celebrate Music In Our Schools Month® by highlighting and sharing all the ways your school community is musical. Download this resource to learn more.
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…
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…
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…
Requests for Music In Our Schools Month participation certificates are now closed as of April 15, 2026. Thank you to all the teachers and students who shared their stories of…