Teaching Everybody Everything Improving Standards Implementation in Instrumental Music Education By NAfME Member Alden H. Snell II One of the challenges instrumental music educators face is helping students understand…
Culturally Responsive Practice in the Music Classroom A Transcript of the March 27, 2017, NAfME Council for IN-Ovations Twitter Chat NAfME’s Council for IN-Ovations is the home for…
A Composition Project for Performing Ensembles By NAfME Member Matthew Witt For decades, performing ensembles have focused on one thing: Rehearsing. We must learn to do more than rehearse –…
The Next Generation of Music Education in Chaska, Minnesota By NAfME member Eric Songer The Next Generation of Music Education is an incredible revolutionary project that involves transforming music…
Teaching and Assessing Basic Musicianship with Composition By NAfME Member Matt Doiron Many jazz greats have written new melodies or contrafacts on tunes from their standard repertoire. Elementary musicians,…
Unity, Variety and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony By NAfME Member Stacy Gray This article presents four music composition techniques that can help music educators create National Core Arts Standards (NCAS)-aligned…
7 Steps to Creating an Original Song with Your Choral Ensemble By NAfME member Michele KaschubProfessor of Music/Coordinator of Music Teacher EducationUniversity of Southern Maine Creating opportunities for students to…
Cloud-Based Pop Music Compositions Open Doors for Students and Teachers By NAfME Member Matt Warren For 50 years, incorporating popular music into school music curriculums has been a hotly-debated…
Calling All Student Composers! The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) seeks original music written by student composers for featured performance in the Young Composers Concert at the National In-Service…
5 Things to Do on a Snow Day The office of the National Association for Music Education, along with many others on the East Coast, are currently “hunkering down”…