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Arts Education Resources |
| Arts Education Partnership
The Arts Education Partnership is a private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic, and governmental organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work. |
| ArtsUSA
Americans for the Arts works with cultural organizations, arts, business, and government leaders and patrons to provide leadership, research, visibility, professional development and advocacy to advance support and resources for the arts in communities across the country. |
| Gaining the Arts Advantage
This site covers the best practices, in music arts and arts education according to a report from the President's Committee for the Arts and Humanities and the Arts Education Partnership. |
| National Arts and Education Information Network
This site is designed to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum. |
| New York Foundation for the Arts
Free national information resource for artists in all disciplines and for everyone who supports them in any way. |
| Stage Stars
Stage Stars re-records and distributes songs from musicals as accompaniment and karaoke CDs. Two versions of every song are included on our CDs: an accompaniment track and a track with guide vocals. The guide vocals help the student or performer learn the lyrics and rehearse their part. |
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Band |
| American Bandmasters Association
The objectives of the ABA are recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of the concert band and its music; helpfulness and fellowship among members; increasingly higher standard of artistic excellence for the concert band, its performers, its conductors and its literature; and a constantly greater contribution through the concert band to the musical life and culture of all peoples. |
| American School Band Directors Association
The mission of the ASBDA is to promote, enhance, and preserve quality school band programs through leadership and fellowship of exemplary band directors nationwide. |
| Association of Concert Bands
ACB's members include bands, individuals and corporations who are uniquely dedicated and equipped to serve the needs of adult instrumental musicians who perform in and lead community bands. |
| College Band Directors National Association
The purpose of the organization is to assist members in seeking individual and collective growth as musicians, educators, conductors, and administrators. |
| National Band Association
The largest band directors' professional organization in the world, organized for the purpose of promoting the musical and educational significance of bands and dedicated to the attainment of a high level of excellence for bands and band music. |
| World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
WASBE is an international organization of wind band conductors, composers, performers, publishers, teachers, instrument makers and friends of wind music. It is dedicated to enhancing the quality of the wind band throughout the world and exposing its members to new worlds of repertoire, musical culture, people and places. |
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Choral |
| American Choral Directors Association
ACDA is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. In addition, ACDA strives through arts advocacy to elevate choral music's position in American society. |
| Barbershoppers (SPEBSQSA)
The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. is headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin and organizes and coordinates the activities of the barbershop chapters and districts around the world. |
| ChoralNetO
The internet Center for Choral Music. Contains more than 1,000 links for choral music and related fields. Officially sanctioned by International Federation for Choral Music. |
| Chorus America
Chorus America's mission is to strengthen choruses and increase appreciation of choral music. Chorus America provides information, publications, conferences, consulting, training programs, surveys, networking, and awards and offers an array of programs that support the public presentation of choral music. |
| Harmony, Inc (National Organization of Women Barbershoppers)
Harmony, Inc. is a vibrant international singing organization of women who are dedicated to the performance, promotion and preservation of four-part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style, the celebration of friendship, personal growth and development through music and leadership education, and the practice of democratic principles. |
| Sweet Adelines International
Sweet Adelines International is a highly respected worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. This independent, nonprofit music education association is one of the world's largest singing organizations for women. |
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Education & Administrative Resources |
| American School Board Journal
The ASB Journal is an editorially independent education magazine published monthly by the National School Boards Association. It chronicles change, interprets issues, and offers readers practical advice on a broad range of topics pertinent to school governance and management, policy making, student achievement, and the art of school leadership. |
| National Association of Education for Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. |
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