The “Care and Feeding” of Your Principal
The “Care and Feeding” of Your Principal A New Teacher’s Guide for Fostering Positive Relations and Good Interactions with School Administrators By NAfME Member Paul K. Fox This article first…
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Tools for Survival in Today’s Climate
No Teacher Is an Island Tools for Survival in Today’s Climate By NAfME Member Dr. Jenny L. Neff School breaks can lead to thoughts of taking vacation or…
Get with the Program
Get with the Program It Can Be the Icing on a Concert’s Cake By NAfME Member Lori Schwartz Reichl This article was originally published in the November 2017 teacher edition…
Quality Over Quantity: A Message to Music Education Majors
Quality Over Quantity A Message to Music Education Majors By NAfME Member Nicholas Tyler During my first year of teaching, I have learned that quality matters more than…
Tips for Success in Establishing and Maintaining a Beginning Band Program
Tips for Success in Establishing and Maintaining a Beginning Band Program Organizational and Instructional Strategies for Creating Your School’s Band Program By NAfME Member Sharen W. Bolder …
Recruiting and Keeping Our Best and Brightest Music Educators for the Educational “Long Haul”
Music Educators Wanted . . . Where Are All the Music Teachers? Recruiting and Keeping Our Best and Brightest for the Educational “Long Haul” By NAfME member Samantha Davis…
Ways to Build Better Working Relationships with Your Principal
“My Administrator Hates My Music Program!” Ways to Build Better Working Relationships with Your Principal By NAfME member Gabriel L. Woods As I have traveled across our beautiful country, I…
Danni Schmitt says “Never Stop Trying to Be Better”
NAfME member Danni Schmitt teaches at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland, and her students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. She teaches 4-8th grade band as well…
Wertz Says Keep It Moving in Band Class
Douglas Wertz is the band director at Glenview Middle School in Anderson, South Carolina. “I teach band classes to students in 6th through 8th grades. I have been teaching for…
NAfME Congratulates Member Phillip Riggs, 2016 GRAMMY Music Educator
NAfME Member Phillip Riggs of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham was named the recipient of the third annual GRAMMY Music Educator Award™ presented by The Recording Academy®…
