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This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

The website for the National Core Arts Standards (2014). It includes the standards for music, dance, visual arts, theater, and media arts. Standards are searchable by content area and grade level. Examples of standards-based assessments are included.

This site provides a list of national content standards for k-12 music curriculum.

This site contains the new K-12 arts standards, including those for music education, as well as tools related to assessment.

Core Music Standard vocabulary to incorporate in curriculum.

NAfME has provided lesson plan examples for band that implement the new Core Music Standards.  Included is a list of resources of videos, FAQs, workbooks, guides, etc.  You need your NAfME information to access these materials.

I first became familiar with this resource while enrolled in the Creative Thinking course, and it has tremendously helped me fine tune my lessons and procedures. The National Core Arts Standards is a resource that every Music Educator should be familiar with. Educators can reference this resource often to make sure that their planning and activities align with these standards.

The purpose of this resource is to provide a detailed breakdown of the National Core Art Standards. Here you can find standards by subject and strand as well as model cornerstone assessments and student work. This is especially useful if your school district aligns to national standards.

This site advocates for music edcuation. It provides information through blogs, articles, and research. The topics of discussion include arts as a core subject, formal teacher evaluation procedure for arts classes, engaging students in music classes, and the importance of providing an arts education to every student. A nice aspect of this site is that it provides information not only in the form of text, but also graphs and charts. This makes the information presented easy to comprehend for a larger audience. Teachers can use the informaion from these research studies and blogs to ensure that their music program is genuinely helping all of the students and to educate themselves on the importance of music education/its place in todays changing views on the arts as a core subject.

The instrumental standards as derived from the Core Arts Standards developed by NAfME.

30 Writing Prompts with a Music Theme. This could be a great way to incorporate Common Core writing standards into the music classroom. An added plus would be to use it to help students respond to music.

Iowa Music Educators Association is a great website for a number of articles on advocacy and core curriculum. This site also contains information on the annual conference held during the Iowa All-State Music Festival.

All points of arts integration -- from implementation in the classroom and engaging students, to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia blogs, articles, and videos.

Core subjects supplied with various interactive learning tools, games and assessments. Music category offers composition, virtual instruments and fun games. Suitable for elementary and secondary grade levels of beginner-intermediate levels. Works well with IWB, learning centers or homeschooling. 

Especially for private instructors like myself, access to core music standards is not always readily available, or exactly the same as state standards. For fellow WI instructors, it is important to stay abreast of changes made to the Standards for Music. This site directly links to the government page on the topic.

I use these standards to clarify curriculum with my administration and other faculty members to make sure my students are having the best experience.

This is a list of overarching Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for the New National Standards. I use this as a reminder of what meaning goals I truly want my students to be learning!

This article is geared towards the non-music classroom but has much to offer to the music educator. Music teachers could incorporate the suggestions for songwriting into their own lessons. Ever more, they could use this resource as an example and a guide to collaborate with core subject areas engaging in cross-curricular instruction.

This is the Standards of Learning for music education in the Commonwealth of Virginia as adopted by the Virginia Board of Education in 2013. As Virginia does not adhere to Common Core, these Standards are the basis for K-12 public school music curricula across the state.

This article discusses possible uses for PBL in the music classroom.

The article discusses a new app that was created to improve or teach improvisation concepts using loops on any particular scale.

Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students play A comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system) All student levels, general music through university No external microphone required Includes thousands of music titles No training required Teacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reports iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire

A program that is built from the teacher's perspective, Music Prodigy provides students with an area to practice, using a built-in metronome.  Assessment is also available in this program.  As its name implies, you will build musical prodigies.

" Lesson 1: Free and metrically organised music (98kB)"