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This is a songbook put together by the Utah State Board of Education. It's a song book for elementary students, filled with not only the music and lyrics but optional body movements, dance, and percussion instructions.

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.

The Cleveland Orchestra's Education & Community website includes learning/teaching opportunities for families, educators, and adults, and has performance opportunities for youth. This is a well-developed webpage that engages youth to adults.

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 website is filled with information about every song you can imagine. It also includes information about artists as well as some fun games and trivia concerning musicians. A top ten list of songs is given with further explanation about the music.

This site is a great resource to help students get into the minds of their favorite pop artists. Students often find it easier to connect to pop tunes than to classical music. This site provides a list of different pop tunes/artists along with descriptions about those pieces and artists. This helps students realize the thought behind creating music, which they can then transfer to their school music class. This site also includes blogs about songwriter interviews, quizzes, and song facts to name a few. The featured songs fall into the category "daily top ten" or "weekyl top ten," keeping the songs up-to-date and easy for young students to recognize/connect with.

This website is a great resource for discovering the stories behind popular songs. The list of songs seem to be extensive and include pieces that would be familiar to students. This resource could help create a relevant curriculum that speaks to the non-traditional music student's interests and their music experience.

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.

The purpose of this site is to provide access to information about the school where I teach general music, band and choir. It includes the developing school website and helpful links for our students. Google classroom links and other connections are coming soon.

This site, compiled of professional educators, aims to enhance creative music and movement by emphasizing the Orff approach to instruction, providing professional development to its members, and supporting the creative potential of learners. You must subscribe to the association in order to benefit from its classroom resources, scholarships, and publication. But it seems to be a great source of support for classroom music educators!

The AOSA website is a resource for music educators. It provides information about the Orff-Schulwerk approach, advocacy, professional development, and teaching resources (lesson plans covering a variety of music content, videos, literature integration, and technology). Some links are only accessible by AOSA members.

The American Orff-Schulwerk Association provides a variety of resources for teachers and students to enhance their musical education. Here, students work together to create musical experiences through dance, movement, playing instruments, singing, and acting. Workshops and clinics can be attended to enhance knowledge and understanding in this area of music education.

These are the new 2014 anchor standards. I reference these often to make sure my lessons are not just meeting district standards, but national standards as well. They also help give me ideas if I am struggling with lesson ideas.

Ted Talks are an extremely engaging way to provide students with additional information relating to music, performance, or any other topic you might decide to discuss with your students. Lectures on brain function, social issues, and music are all part of this fantastic collection.

The purpose of this sire is to provide access to leading and cutting edge conference speeches, educational talks and interviews that motivate, inspire and inform. These "talks" are all gathered in one place to access and explore and have a wide variety of interest for the music teacher. These talks often pose and answer questions about education, contemporary research and the like that will aid in growth and understanding in our profession and perhaps, in effect, better student achievement.

This .pdf provides the current Mississippi State Framework for Music Education and standards for all levels k-12.

Great source of band-relate comics strips. A great way to ease the tension of performance preparation. Comics have tags so searching for specific topics and/or instruments are easy.

This is mostly just a fun website. I would use this to get some fun band related pictures and sayings to put on the Smart Board as the students are walking in the class and getting ready for rehearsal. This could be a good website to add some extra fun to the music class.

The Studio Jams youtube channel is a promo channel for the line of Studio Jams DVDS, but is filled with many modern covers of classic tunes, all played by professional musicians in a professional studio. A great resource for examples of jazz/fusion musicians really plying their craft.

This google play music channel is a great station to share examples of the modern language of small group jazz with students. Cannonball Adderly, Art Blakey, Blue Mitchell, John Coltrane, and many more can be heard. A great resource for hard-to-find or expensive examples of small group jazz.

This site is the home to Huei-Yuan Pan - one the most influential marching percussion education specialists in the United States. The site offers media, lessons, sheet music, and links to Huei's educational social media pages

This website provides music educators with all upcoming events and conferences to help advance music education within New York State. It also provides job postings for anyone who is seeking employment. There are many links for parents and students to check out if they are performing in a festival, or have any questions regarding festivals.The NYSSMA website provides the National Core Art Standards as well as all necessary knowledge for NYS music teachers to be successful. In addition, this website provides various opportunities for their programs and students.