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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.

The website for Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. PMEA supports music educators with resources on lessons, advocacy, and performance opportunities. 

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.  

The Library of Congress has a plethora of information and media related to music education. Within the archives of the Library of Congress are recordings of folk songs, articles about music in America, and podcasts. One of these podcast collections is about Music and the Brain where research related to music and how it affects the brain is reviewed and discussed. This is an excellent resource for music advocacy. It is also a great resource for better understanding music learning.

Professional organization that provides educational resources and advocacy for choir directors. Main focus is choirs and they offer a national conference with plenty of professional development opportunities.

American Choral Directors Association. This site is a resource for national choral standards, conferences, repertoire, and choral education articles. 

Professional Organization that can provide music advocacy and an avenue for choral music resources and advancements. Website offers music lists that only include quality repertoire.

This website is specific for music educators in Massachusetts, like myself. It contains information on news and events happening in music education, in or near Massachusetts. It provides links and contact information for initiatives, such as advocacy, and mentorship. It also provides resources for various professional development opportunities, as well as lists music education job openings in the area.

The National Association for Music Education website is an incredible resources for all music educators.  On this site, users can access articles published by fellow educators and professors on an array of topics.  Users can also gain insight on lesson planning, upcoming events, career opportunities, and access to a community of music educators.  Research studies published through NAfME provide valuable information for students to read and analyze.  Students can access valuable resources, discover music events, and gain information regarding auditions.

Promotes music study as part of school curricula. Provides great opportunities and information to teachers, students, and parents. Users are informed about the latest news concerning music education, events, career resources, as well as and music lessons.

This site is great for music educators to access national standards, articles about teaching, jobs and music advocacy.

This site in dedicated to articles written and based on music education. This is an international website that allows authors to submit papers and peer review others journal entries. It also allows music educators to read research journals based on all aspects of music education. There is a wide variety of research topics, all of which are very high quality! This is also a great advocacy website.

IBA (Iowa Bandmasters Association) is the organization that leas Iowa band directors. If you are a band director or music educator in Iowa, you should be a member of IBA. IBA provides professional development, networking opportunities, and will assist a director in any way they can, such as advocacy.

This is the page for the Nations Association for Music Education. This site is full of information for teachers and students alike on the national level. Music research and advocacy information is also available. NAFME was formerly called MENC.

The National Association for Music Education's webpage is valuable online tool for music educators of all fields. It offers helpful resources for not only teachers, but students as well. There is a wide variety of links and posts to read through ranging from blog posts to teaching standards.

NAFME is a vital resource for music educators. This website provides communication and collaboration via forums, lesson plans, standards, frequently posted articles, and even more resources for music educators of all varieties. It is an excellent way to stay involved in the music education community, and it continuously strives to improve the state of music education nation-wide.

WMEA.org is the Washington State Music Educators Association website. Here they provide resources to educators that cover a broad spectrum of topics. These topics include, Job Availability, publications, conference information, student events and advocacy resources.

A local (GA) resource for music technology teachers. Contains lesson plans, advocacy information, and equipment information. Very helpful!

a TED talk on how music benefits the brain. This is a well known video but a worthwhile one to have easy access to!

This page is a collection of articles written by Tony Garcia, director of jazz studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. There are sections on jazz pedagogy, trombone pedagogy, and wind pedagogy, as well as music business and advocacy. Each article includes the site or journal where it was originally published.

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.

For lessons based on music listening and intervallic training, this website is a helpful tool. It takes popular songs and uses them to help students identify intervals and provides links to blogs and information on music advocacy.

Music for All is one of the more influential national music education organizations that advocates the importance of music education. They have created programs such as Bands of America and Orchestra America. This website is a great tool for educators to find information for promoting music education if ever needs to present to administration or teachers. It provides resources as well as tips on how we can try to achieve music education for all.

An excellent video on how brain function is improved when playing an instrument. A great video for music advocacy.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

The purpose of this blog is to provide teaching materials and ideas to music educators to enhance instruction. The content focuses on musical teaching games and ideas as well as new technology that can be used in the classroom with students. It also features articles on music education advocacy.

This is a fantastic blog with internet and technology resources and instructional aids for all K-12 music classrooms.

This site covers blogs, lists concerts, provides ideas for educators to use in their classroom. Also includes podcasts!