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The Music Parents Guide is a blog centered website that focuses on educating the parents of performing arts students. The purpose of this website is to help parents with ideas of how to support their performing arts child when the parents may have very little personal music experience. This website advocates for the importance of arts in the schools and connects parents to various resources pertaining to music education.

The Highly Effective Band Room is a blog centered website focusing on numerous pedagogical concepts ranging from 21st century skills, technology, rehearsal strategies, and ways to incorporate numerous school improvement concepts into the performing arts classroom. The purpose of the website is to share ideas and concepts that the author has used in his classroom. There is also a list of various resources that are available from other websites that pertain to the various blogs available.

On and off the Podium is a blog centered website focusing on both administrative resources and classroom pedagogical concepts. The purpose of the website is to share ideas and concepts that the author has used in her classroom. There is a wealth of information available specifically on recruitment for middle school performing arts teachers (band, orchestra, and choir). Visitors have access to materials that the author has shared that coincide with the blogs on the website. There is also a list of recommended websites that the author recommends for visitors to check out associated with music education.

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.

How to use a single iPad in the music classroom. Many teachers, like me, have enough money to buy a single iPad but not a classroom set or even enough for a center group. This compilation of resources gives ideas on how to use a single iPad in classroom of 25-30 students and still find meaningful learning in the activities.

The purpose of this website provides forums, educational videos and events for Marching Band. Musical content mostly focuses on Marching Band. 

This is a very comprehensive website with articles dealing with just about any topic a band director would ever need when it comes to the classroom. There are instrument specific sections as well as help with instrument repair. I found composer interviews as well as information regarding motivation of students to fundraise.

The purpose of this website is to compile links to access all things band director related. The website includes information and inspiration for topics ranging from fundraising to baton technique. Most of, if not all of the information is compiled to benefit students either directly or indirectly in their classrooms.

A list of ideas how to adapt instructional methods to accommodate special needs learners in music class.

This is a link to the midwest clinic. This website provides programs from all of the past performances at the clinic. This provides great ideas on repertoire for ensembles at all levels.

An awesome listening activity for Pre-school aged students. Five listening excerpts from classical music related to water. Each example includes ideas of what to listen for while listening. Additional examples are included for possible extension. Teachers can add movements to each example for a kinesthetic activity.

This notebook began in 1995 as a compilation of notes taken from lectures during "String Pedagogy," a class offered by Robert Culver, Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan School of Music. In addition to Professor Culver's course, a t

This is a great website for information about strings pedagogy. I also enjoy he teaching strategies  and informations on books. This will be great to check back throughout the year!

This website has a wealth of information on string pedagogy. Here you can find videos and sample lesson ideas on how to teach concepts range from bow hold to vibrato on all of the string instrument

This is a blogpost that helps give ideas and aid for helping teachers be more comfortable teaching improvisation. It is very descriptive and has sample videos supplied showing the suggestions in action. A helpful resource to help facilitate teaching improvisation to young children especially.

Everyone wants their classroom to look organized and inviting. This website offers great bulletin board ideas for the music classroom.

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.

Blog by jazz pianist Ethan Iverson (Bad Plus), tributes to noteworthy jazz artists past and present, reviews, interviews, general ideas

This blog compared similarities between physical therapy and teaching music. It was interesting to read the list of fifteen items which are shared between the two very different topics. The list started with hydrating and described the importance of drinking plenty of water after a strenuous exercise as well as when practicing music. My favorite parts are the article included the idea of practicing slower as well as practicing for shorter periods of times more often. I think those are great teaching tips to help our students improve. So often we as musicians and teachers just want to do everything in the fastest way possible. We also spend so much of our time staying busy with life that we seem to squeeze all of our practicing into one time rather than little by little.

This is a blog by Beth Jahn, an elementary music teacher who wanted to explore more ways to incorporate technology in her classroom. Although it has not been updated in some time, the resources she lists for iDevices are very helpful. She also goes into detail about her lesson plan ideas and how you could use apps with them.

Here is as blog that discuss ways to in corporate music technology in the elementary music classroom. There are various low cost and free apps teachers can download for classroom usage for practice and instruction.

This blog discuss ways teachers can help students understand material that they man not comprehend during a lesson. This is extremely helpful when your are not getting the necessary feedback from students.

An article that discusses finer points in the "Art" of teaching; when students don't grasp a concept. Is it always the teachers fault? Can the student be doing anything differently to help on their end? This article has possible solutions!

The purpose of this website is to provide individual drum lessons to young aspiring percussionists. This also would be useful for music educators whose primary instrument might not be percussion. The content features material and video on drum rudiments, purchasing options, showmanship, performance technique, musicality and world connections.

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Get your scores here! You can find just about any score here and they will ship it out the same day. Also available are downloadable digital copies of scores. It is easy to search the site and I really like that there are sound files to hear examples of pieces you are considering purchasing.

This is the best site to find scores and performance ideas. The site allows you to search by composer or title, and you may also purchase scores one at a time to try them out and see if you want to purchase large numbers later after trying them out.

J.W. Pepper is a site where you can order most published sheet music, books, and more.