A fascinating “Debate on Arts Education”, hosted by ArtsJournal’s Douglas McLennan took place on an artsjournal blog from Dec 1st-5th. The entire dialogue is archived on the blog. It is especially interesting to get a sense of where each contributor is coming from and consider their perspectives within the context of the roles they play […]
Today is the last day you can make comments regarding MENC’s Strategic Plan. You can contribute comments via email or on a dedicated bulletin board. As of this post only about 20 people have contributed comments on the bulletin board. The comments range in topic from debate over whether or not there should be high […]
Thanks to glued to the string (an excellent string education blog) after recently posting about music education advocacy, I came across the article “Arts Education; Book Tackles Old Debate: Role of Art In Schools“** featuring researchers at Harvard Project Zero. The article is about their arts education research and new book “Studio Thinking: […]
As you gear up for the upcoming school year consider taking advantage of several free advocacy resources being offered by MENC.
“The Power of Music” Advocacy Brochure Series is one resource available as a set of pdf files.
“Music for All students: Planning Music Education Advocacy” (also available as a pdf file) gives step by step suggestions […]
Congratulations to:
Dave Gudmastad, the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s music teacher of the year.
Attendees of the 97th California Music Teachers’ Association Convention
Drew Helton, high school senior and future music educator, on his performance at the Daytona Opera Guild’s 2007 High School Vocal Competition.
The 45 music educator recipients of the Yale Distinguished Music Educator awards.
Parents, students and […]
As I was watching the last couple of minutes of the spelling bee championship tonight I couldn’t help but notice the amount of finalists who were involved in music. But even better then that was the statement of Evan O’Dorney upon winning the spelling bee:
“My favorite things to do were math and music, and […]
