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Choralia offers part rehearsal tracks for a wide selection of choral repertoire. Most of it is Baroque/Classical/Romantic era rep, but there is a good selection of newer works as well (Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Rutter). Sound quality is a little funky, but they do the job.

IPA Source is an excellent resource for any choral director, especially if you include foreign language pieces in your repertoire. Not only does this site offer IPA translations and guides for your knowledge, but you can even use it as a resource to teach your students the International Phonetic Alphabet. This resource is not entirely free, but the subscriptions are relatively affordable for educational institutions.

This resource is very beneficial for the improvement of sight-reading skills. Users can choose different levels, keys, time signatures, and specific rhythms to help develop sight-reading proficiency. This is a valuable resource for both classroom and private music educators

The Sight Reading Factory generates excerpts of music based on parameters entered by the user. It is especially useful for practicing specific areas of music-reading skills (e.g. bass clef, odd-meters, difficult rhythms), or reinforcing general concepts of reading traditionally-notated music. While the site is good for the practice of mechanics, one might argue that robotically-created music is less useful for the development of musicality (or that computer-composed music isn't "music" at all). Excerpts can be generated for individuals singing or playing instruments, or for ensembles. There is also a section for solfege pattern practice. This resource creates sheet music excerpts for reading practice, without much regard to form or structure--it does not generate full works of literature for performance.

This website offers specific melodies created to assist students in learning Sight Reading skills. Paying for a membership would be beneficial in order to fully use the website, but not necessary to access activities for classroom use.

Activities and ideas for teaching young children to explore their vocal capacities.

Music teacher job search advice from the hiring table.

Hypebot is a website that posts daily about the music industry. This website focuses on the business side of music as well as technology. I believe that this is an insightful resource for students in music industry courses. I also believe that it is interesting for music educators to read about the current events of the music world.

Music Education Works is a website that promotes music as a necessity for all students. The website lists the benefits of music education and provides appropriate learning and scholarly writing that backs music education as a tool for all ages. The website provides information about music in and outside of school. The main goal of the website is to promote and share the benefits of music education.

This blog is a critique of the common "everyone gets a trophy" system of musical competitions that is pervasive in today's arts culture. The author expands to make a compelling argument to limit the amount of awards given in our school music programs (thus eliminating the participation certificate).

This interactive guide by composer Abbie Betinis goes through a step-by-step question guide that allows conductors to answer questions about how they want to perform and/or reproduce music. The guide then explains the appropriate licenses needed to ensure the copyright holder is fairly treated. It also tells you how to obtain these licenses.

This article provides ideas for small budget ensembles to make a dream of commissioning a new piece of music a reality. Commissioning music is a great way to get singers invested in music-making, yet the monetary restrictions can be huge. This article encourages the reader to not be afraid to reach out and see what opportunities are possible just from a simple conversation.

This website is a compilation of world music that is appropriate for children to learn about and perform. The library is vast, and is easily searchable by continent, country, and language. There are audio clips and linked videos, as well as several English translations. It's a great resource to explore world music and culture.

The user can download music for piano, guitar, voice, chorus and more. There is a vast library of music available, and the user often has the option of how to view the music, change to key, and other options. Music can be downloaded to a tablet or downloaded and printed from a computer. The prices for the music are very reasonable. This site is a good resource that is convenient and easy to use.

A directory of choral music clips in various formats.

This is a fantastic blog with great resources for general music classroom. It also contains printable assessments and whiteboard activities for K-6 elementary music. 

This website is an awesome resource for elementary music teachers. Aileen gives lesson planning advice, tours of her classroom, ideas for assessment, and program ideas. Her site also includes freebies (lesson plans, assessment tools, and printable worksheets). She also includes links to her podcast and her Teachers Pay Teachers store, which is full of quality resources.

Mrs. Miracle's website is a very well-laid out website which could serve as a template for a teacher looking to do a similar website. She has a podcast, a way to be contacted for teacher interactions, a link to a store where teachers share materials, and informative posts with teaching ideas. Most ideas are geared toward the third-grade level.

Advocacy available for all types of music (orchestra, band, choir, etc.). Educational articles and monthly magazine with ideas and thoughts on pedagogy.

The website for the National Association for Music Ed, this site provides a plethora of information relating to the many different facets of music education. It provides links to websites, resources and tools for teaching, and valuable ideas for technology integration.

NAfME, among the world's largest arts education organizations, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education.

Database of sight-singing examples

In this podcast, Dr. James Frankel suggests ways to use technology and foster creativity in the music classroom.

Tech ideas to add to the conversation of UMTECH17

Digital education talks for the music classroom.

A significant resource for choral directors and music educators. Provides free sheet music for thousands of songs. The database is organized in categories that are easy to navigate.

This wiki is the home of the Choral Public Domain Library and as is a great resource in providing FREE choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information regarding choral and vocals music. Just under 26,000 choral/vocal works are currently available by over 2800 composers. New works are being added daily. Any musician seeking free, public domain choral or vocal music would benefit from the music, resources and information provided. A community portal, bulletin board and forums are available connect together those with similar interests.

Free choral music!