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This website is one of my favorite ways to introduce new musical ideas to K5 and 1st grade students. Older students love using it as well. The lesson plans, games, and activities are all aligned and geared toward specific subjects. These also make great sub lessons.

Blog post article from nafme.org on productive music practice. post filled with video clips and specific examples on things musicians can do to have more productive, goal-oriented practice sessions.

A blog from the Harmony Road site which provides several tips for teaching a group piano course.

This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies

Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!

Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.

Establishing rules for a general music class in an elementary setting.

Kahoot! is an online/cloud-based program that allows users to create multiple-choice quizzes that are played on electronic devices (cell phones, iPads, etc.).

Kahoot is an awesome website where you can create quizzes for your students. You can also access kahoot quizzes made by others. Students can login from their device and play the game/quiz in your classroom. They can also login at home for practice/homework.

This is a great site for making games for students. The games can be of anything you want. I have used it to reinforce rhythms, theory, and notation. It can be used for so much more.

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 YouTube channel has videos for early beginning band students. It has tutorials on how to make your first sound as well videos of songs students can learn by ear.

Quia enables educators to create quizzes quickly and effectively. The website walks you through the quiz-making process, and it is easy to use. Questions can take the form of true/false, multiple choice, multiple answers, short answer responses, essay, and several others. In addition, multimedia capabilities are available to enhance quiz questions. Teachers can add a music clip or an image to illustrate or become the focal point of a question. Questions can be randomized for multiple variations of quizzes, and feedback can be left for students for each question.

Podcast on popular music.

This is a podcast that breaks down popular music and digs deep into the theory and make up of those songs. Music educators can use this as a resource for listening guides to direct discussion and listening response for students.

This site have a few app/programs that teachers can use to create a beat loop or have the students create their own. It does include Incrediox but it also recommends a few others.

A free software that allows the user to make a groove up to four parts. Once the groove is made it can be shared on the web or the midi can be downloaded and used in other programs.

This site helps build rubrics used for assessments.  You can design your own rubrics for playing tests, performances and projects.

This is a website that links to various rubric-creating formats, designed to save educators time and effort in making more visually-appealing assessment tools. There is a brief article that discusses the benefits of implementing a rubric in assessment, and there are multiple links to other articles that discuss the pros and cons of utilizing rubrics at various levels of education. Within the initial article are 25 different formats, some more topic-specific than others, to generate rubrics with pictures and descriptions. It is easy to use and much more efficient than creating a rubric from scratch.

This site is a rich resource for horn students. It offers information on best makes and models of instruments, fingering charts, orchestral excerpts and the history of the horn. All things horn are included on this site such as specific techniques such as transposing and stopped horn as well as embouchure formation.

This article from the choral journal discusses issues surrounding including transgender students in the choral classroom. It centers around using meaningful conversation and dialogue to make these students feel comfortable. It also works through common scenarios and equips readers with vocabulary to address this in their own classrooms.

This collection of podcasts features presentations and examples of communities and school districts that have made changes to increase their music offerings to children. Many of the podcasts promote music advocacy and the benefits of making music available to all children.

This article discusses the various types of licenses and permissions needed to be compliant with copyright law, specifically geared toward show choirs. Information like this is important to know as a choir director so that you can ensure that the music you are performing isn't infringing on any laws. It also protects your school/organization from unwanted (and often hefty) fines.

Defending music and saying that "it helps with test scores" or "makes you do better in other classes" doesn't help our cause or profession. Music is universal. Music connects us with others.

This book looks at a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the connections between music and children. The book discusses developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives including play, games, creativity, and movement. The book also explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, by looking at multiple domains that the child can benefit from with music (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and linguistic).

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).