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Blog which has lots of useful tips and information for parents of band students

This site contains information for parents who have children in a music program. Educators can point parents to this site to see what parents are doing in their local communities to support their children in music. Additionally, links are provided to resources/tools for students in their practice in aiding parents in encouraging their students to practice efficiently.

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.

A great site for music parents, this is a great site to direct parent to or to use as a resource for the instructor himself with many useful links connecting to ways to approach music students, parents, and administrations for both instructional and advocacy scenarios.

This is a music parents' guide with many articles written by Anthony Mazzocchi. This is a great resource for teachers to use to educate parents on why music education is important for all students.

This is a music parents' guide with many articles written by Anthony Mazzocchi. This is a great resource for teachers to use to educate parents on why music education is important for every student.

This site allows you to organize and schedule music lessons. It also gives an opportunity for feedback to parents. If parents have questions, you can answer their questions between lessons through the use of this site. If you choose, you can also track a student's practice on their instrument.

An online music education for children. 

The Children's Music Workshop website provides numerous resources for students, parents, and educators involved with band or orchestra.  It includes advocacy information for parents and helpful videos for students that show the basics of each instrument.  

ClassDojo is a classroom management website that allows the teacher to create a profile for each student to give them positive and negative feedback on behavior. Parents can log in at any time to see how their students are doing in class!

Excellent tool to use, especially when classroom teachers are already using it. It is like a FaceBook page for your class. You can easily message parents, post videos and updates, and keep track of behavior (positive and negative).

This is an important perspective as parents begin to worry about their adolescent's academic courses (for good reason), but many are still trying to find ways to keep their kids engaged in music.

This website discusses the neurological benefits of practice. These benefits may come in handy in conversations with parents and administrators.

This website discusses the neurological benefits of practice. These benefits may come in handy in conversations with parents and administrators.

Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.

HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.

Children's Music Workshop is a resource site for parents to help reinforce proper practices for beginning instrument players. It provides tips for putting the horn together and tips on how to help children progress on their instruments.

This website is great for beginning musicians.  It provides instructional videos for the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and cello.  It provides suggestions for the parents of these beginning musicians.  It is a great tool for music advocacy.  

Music education website for children.

Music education based websites from MTNA . This also offers parent resources when choosing music teachers. There are many beneficial websites that are excellent for teachers.

This is a very valuable resource contains helpful strategies on motivating students to practice at home. It also discusses how parent play a major role in making sure that students rehearse.

This site is amazing!!! The purpose of this resource is to provide not only teachers, but parents, students, and kids the tools necessary to enhance musical learning. The musical content on this site includes but is not limited to history lessons, composer biographies and activities, instrument identification lessons, orchestral breakdown, a vast musical library, and tons of supporting pdf documents and sheet music for classroom/non-classroom instruction. It is a performing arts site, so you should also check out or pass along knowledge for french and dance educators as well!

Arts Alive provides teacher, parent, and student resources including lessons of composers, activities and games, instrument lab, recordings, and videos.

This site is aimed primarily for you parents. Browse different ways to download kid friendly music for your child. Jamendo Kids Music also lets you listen and preview an album before you buy it.

Music educators use and collect numerous forms and by switching to Google Docs for some of those forms it will streamline the process of collecting information.  These docs can replace practice records, booster parent forms and contact forms. 

This page details the process of violin making, sound production and care and maintenance.  I will include this page on my school website for the students and parents to use as a reference.

This app allows you to update presentations, calendars, photos, schedules and to collaborate with others on projects on the go.  This would be a useful app when on a trip with students to keep parents informed on the schedule, activities and photos.

This is a great site for finding music clip art to use for newsletters, flyers, or emails to parents. This clip art can be used in advertising and for programs like recitals as well.