Music In Our Schools Month FREE Resources
March is Music in Our Schools Month! We have pulled together a few of our favorite resources to help you celebrate and advocate for music in YOUR schools. We hope you find them helpful, and if you have anything we can add, let us know. Happy teaching! https://youtu.be/_KY7msz27Pc FREE Sheet
Grants 201 – A Guide to Community Foundations for Funding Your Music Program
Unlocking Community Foundation Funding for Your Music Program: A Comprehensive Guide This post is a follow-up to our “Grants 101” article that has a list of individual websites that award grants to music teachers. You can find that article here: https://www.wengercorp.com/teacher-resources/grants-101-funding-opportunities-for-school-music-programs/ As a music teacher, you often face significant challenges
Exploring Improvisation with Samples and Loops
There is a growing body of research—and plenty of anecdotal evidence—that highlights a strong desire among music educators to broaden how students engage with music in school. From the need for innovative ensemble approaches and expanded offerings in world and popular music, to the deeper inclusion of improvisation and composition, the call for diversification and innovation in music education is clear.
April: Jazz Appreciation Month
Looking for ways to celebrate jazz during April, and year-round? Take a look at these websites and resources we’ve compiled.
March Music Mania Activity
It’s that time of year when we think of rounds, brackets, who will be eliminated and who will emerge triumphant! This easy-to-use “March Music Mania” bracket is a great way to have some fun in March, and introduce your students to a little bit of music they may have never
World Music in Everyday Teaching: A Practical Approach for Music Educators
by Michael Cain, Co-founder and CEO of Ekwe™ Integrating world music into the classroom can be a daunting task for many teachers. Traditional music education programs often provide limited exposure to non-Western musical traditions, making it difficult to develop expertise in these areas. And with thousands of musical styles and
FREE Musical Valentine Cards
Use these musical themed Valentine cards for a fun and easy classroom decoration, or to print for your students or coworkers!
FREE Solfege & Boomwhacker Classroom Posters
This set of FREE downloadable posters features the solfege syllables and their accompanying hand signs, as well as note name posters for the chromatic C scale. The colors can coordinate with the boomwhacker scale for an easy curricular tie in! You can use these for a quick and easy bulletin
Our Favorite Picture Books to Use in Your Elementary Music Classroom
Picture books are an excellent tool to include in your music classroom. Not only are they perfect for soundless stations or extra end-of-class-filler, there are multitudes of opportunities to tie in musical concepts and topics to them as well.
