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Align music instruction with state and national standards and remain focused on active music making using this resource as your guide. This second edition includes new and updated chapters by a team with experience teaching music at all educational levels: Pre-K, K–12, higher education and beyond. Part I defines the field of curriculum and assessment in music. Part II connects various approaches to music teaching – Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze, Suzuki, and Gordon's Music Learning Theory – in the areas of movement, rhythm, singing, creative music making, expression, literacy, and listening. Part III guides the reader through various approaches to designing curricula, including Understanding by Design, Universal Design for Learning, and the National Standards. Part IV addresses curriculum and assessment in early childhood, secondary students, popular music, adult music learning, English language learners, learners with disabilities, preparation for adjudicated events, preservice education, and in-service education. Finally, Part V looks to the future, addressing the role of technology and the challenges to musicianship-focused curriculum and assessment. Polish your curriculum and reach your assessment goals with this helpful guide.

Musicianship-Focused Curriculum and Assessment

Paperback Book

A collection of practical tools that will modernize your program into a 21st-century booster organization, functioning as a successful small business that significantly supports the school music and arts programs. In clear, concise language, this book lays out an action plan that includes how to be articulate in sharing your vision; enlisting an army of volunteers; develop project plans; define a composite list of duties, tasks, and responsibilities; communicate; determine personal strengths and personality traits; create a business model and execute a business plan; make project notebooks; and provide support, encouragement, and praise. It goes beyond ideas and plans with online links to ready-to-use Word, Excel, and PDF files that are easy to customize and print. These reproducible tools will save you time and enable and empower you to build an amazing team of people dedicated to musical excellence!

Boosters to the Rescue

Paperback Book & Online Media

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Taking a multi-cultural approach to band literature and conducting, Volume 2 picks up where  the first top-selling book left off, featuring compelling discussions of the most important issues facing bands today and in-depth analyses of 100 of the most significant works for band ever composed in grades 2-6.  Contributors include: Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzenheiser, Edward S. Lisk, Richard Miles and Jack Stamp.  This book is an essential resource for band directors at all levels and is a major contribution to the field!

Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol. 2

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Oxford University Press

Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think about the world around them, this book seeks to help implement social justice practices in music classes and ensembles at the elementary and middle school levels. Each chapter engages with important themes through music making and presents examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas, and lesson plans geared toward students between 6-14 years old. Tackling subjects often considered beyond the understanding of younger students, this book respects the voice and critical thinking of the student. Suggestions are given that help reflect and redirect dialogue, with questions that address bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing diversity. The book also includes legally grounded arguments appropriate for school board presentations and ready-to-go classroom-tested lesson plans.

Music & Social Justice

Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Here is a unique, innovative, and comprehensive textbook devoted exclusively to the teaching of rhythm. This book presents traditional as well as nontraditional 21st century outside-the-box concepts and strategies relative to the teaching of rhythm. There are five main parts to the book, which focus on: introducing students to the performance of rhythms; a look at the The Whole Note System; other counting systems and their effective uses in the classroom; compound meter; and irregular and mixed meters. All music teachers, whether band, orchestra, or choir directors, classroom music teachers, or private studio teachers, must deal with the problems inherent in getting students to first perform and then to understand rhythms. Rhythmic independence is one of the most important skills for students to master; this book will be an invaluable resource for all music educators.

Teaching Rhythm

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A field tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals for use with the entire band or individual students.  This series contains warm-ups, chorales, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary exercises, and much more.  An aspiring musician can find everything needed to build fundamental musicianship skills that will transfer into accomplished musical performance.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level Musician

Flute Collection

Habits of a Successful Choir Director presents effective teaching principles and provides a practical approach to everyday issues that choir directors face. Building on the successful Habits of series, Wilkinson and Rush have created a practical guide to all aspects of a successful choral program, including: program organization and management, teaching the components of singing, rehearsal strategies and ensemble fundamentals, music literacy and repertoire selection, strategies for assessment, and the significance of music making. Additional sections address musicianship, classroom management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of warm-up time, building student leadership, professional development, field trips, fundraising, scheduling, developing a mission statement and quality-of-life issues. This is a comprehensive book that will exponentially inspire as teaching skills grow. It will serve as a constant and essential companion throughout the career of any choir director.

Habits of a Successful Choir Director

Just as a conductor's preparatory upbeat gesture at the beginning of a performance influences the way an ensemble performs, we too get to choose our "upbeat" – our thoughts and attitudes – at the start of each day, at the beginning of each class, and in our interactions with students and colleagues. With this clever premise at its core, the book presents a winning combination of mindset and mindfulness strategies as well as leadership principles that will motivate, inspire, and transform not only your internal world but the culture of your music program. With immediately applicable ideas and strategies that work for students, teachers, and professionals in any field, it affirms the importance of living and working with intentionality.
 
The Upbeat! Daily Journal offers ten days of daily quotes and thoughtful prompts for each of the 12 chapters, making this 120-day resource usable on its own or as a companion to the book. It includes over 200 pages of inspirational quotes, mindful breathing techniques, questions for personal reflection, and space for your daily schedule and to-do list. The journal and planner can be purchased separately, as a bundle, or in a bundle with the book.
 
The Upbeat! Leadership Workbook, sold separately, is a transformational guide designed to equip anyone with the skills and confidence to lead others, beginning with the most important first step: learning to lead yourself. Inspired by the innovative ideas in the Upbeat! book, this workbook is divided into three parts: Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership. Equally suited to individual or group use, the workbook offers universal appeal for students, teachers, administrators, athletes, and professionals in any field.

Upbeat!

Hal Leonard Corporation

An ideal resource for choral directors, teachers-in-training, singers, and choral enthusiasts, this practical volume explores the challenges and rewards of working with evolving adolescent through adult tenor-bass singers. In addition to his own valuable insights, Dr. Palant includes interviews with over two dozen seasoned vocal music educators. Topics include: A History of Men's Choral Singing; Anatomy of the Male Voice; The Product: Choral Tone; Intonation; Parts and Placement; The Adolescent Male Voice: Categorization to Maturation; Programming and Repertoire Selection; Auditions; Warm-Ups; Sight-Singing; Recruiting; Fundraising and Travel. Sample programs and repertoire lists are also included.

Brothers, Sing On!

Earthsongs

This reference has, in a relatively short time, become a foundational resource for choir directors at all levels of choral activity. Literal translations and poetic paraphrases are offered for more than 115 sacred Latin texts, making each entry appropriate for singers and concert programs as well. Invaluable!

Translations and Annotations, Vol. 1

Book Latin

Pavane Publishing

Preparing students to become choral music teachers is what Christopher Peterson does at Cal State University, Fullerton. His methods are both modern and extremely practical. Now presented in a textbook format with interactive digital content and links, students will be able to easily locate and retrieve information long after the first read. Covering topics including possible career paths, managing the choral classroom, choosing repertoire, vocal warm-ups and care, teaching for inclusivity, and many more, this book is an all-in-one choral methodology sourcebook for our time. The physical textbook comes with an access code so students can connect with a companion digital publication with links to videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, sound files and the like.

Resonance

Band director Scott Rush and leadership legend Tim Lautzenheiser join forces to create a dynamic and engaging resource that fosters the leadership qualities of every student, not just the chosen few. This workbook guides students through ten sequential levels as they journey up the metaphorical mountain of self-leadership.

Pathway to Success

Paperback Book Teacher Edition

The first published leadership curriculum specifically designed for high school students and written by one of the most well respected and sought-after experts on leadership development. Any organization will benefit from this effective compilation of time-proven leadership concepts developed from the author's work with more than two million young people over the past 30 years. Includes 12 weeks of lesson plans, activities, games, discussion items, homework activities, and a DVD for teachers that is a step-by-step guide featuring high school students in action. The companion workbook will help students as a guide and reference for years to come.

Classic Leadership - Teacher's Edition with DVD

Book & DVD Teacher's Edition

Effective leadership skills play an integral part in our role as music educators, and this serves as a guide to help develop those skills.  Students as well as teachers will benefit from the concepts that were developed from years of experience.  A compelling resource from a master clinician that you'll turn to again and again.

Leadership: Vision, Commitment, Action

This ambitious volume assembles in one place, for the first time, a comprehensive listing of 2400 published solos with wind band accompaniment by more then 1000 composers, organized by instrument. Each listed work includes the title, composer, publisher, timing, year published, and available recording. Also included are biographies of each of the composers, with cross-references to works, publisher and personal websites, and other sources for additional information.

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Meredith Music Publications

Now is the time to practice smarter, not harder. It's time to practice with purpose! Practice is everything if you want to improve as a musician. But how do you practice effectively and with efficiency? This book contains 50 easy-to-use strategies scientifically proven and field-tested to improve musical skills. It includes practice plans for every level, with examples from the world's greatest performers. It's an indispensable resource to immediately increase musical proficiency.

Practicing with Purpose

This volume builds on the twenty-year tradition of its predecessors providing essential and innovative information for wind band conductors. Like the preceeding volumes, it includes Teacher Resource Guides for 100 significant works published for Grades 2 through 6. Each Teacher Resource includes information about the composer, the work, historical perspectives, technical and stylistic considerations, the musical elements of the work, a form and structure analysis, suggested listening, and additional references and information designed to enhance the musicianship of any performance. An indispensable resource for the wind band profession.

Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol. 11

Novello & Company Limited

This is the indispensable guide to learning how to sight-read choral music. Using special interactive technology, renowned choral educators Ralph Allwood and Timothy Teague take the user from the very basics of sight-reading to a level at which they can sing confidently in a choir. This guide provides clear explanations, exercises, tips and tricks on: basic music theory; scales and stepwise motion; larger intervals and awkward leaps; fast and effective reading of choral scores; examples from popular choral repertoire; general good practice for choral singing. Whether you are 7 or 70, a beginner or an experienced singer, this book will improve your ability to read music and help you to enjoy singing to the full. This book is supported by SoundWise. It includes a range of interactive digital features: SoundCheck (powered by Match My Sound) – This unique assessment and feedback software lets you use your phone, tablet or computer to help you practise. SoundCheck listens to you sing, then gives you instant feedback on how to improve!; eBook – A digital edition of your book to read on any device; Video – Tips and demonstrations from the authors.

The Novello Guide to Sight Singing

With over 50 years of experience as a teacher and conductor, the author presents strategies to help your ensemble improve technique as well as achieve artistic and musical results. Each chapter contains inspiration for the conductor and simple, unique exercises designed to achieve artistry in every rehearsal. You'll want to revisit this resource each summer before the school year begins.  A priceless addition to your personal or professional library.

The Artistry of Teaching and Making Music

This book is the companion resource to Boosters to the Rescue! which provides ready-to-use Word, Excel, and PDF files to help booster clubs set and achieve a long-term vision for their organization. Strategic Plans includes project planning guides for three diverse sizes of booster clubs: Developing, Growing, and Maximizing. Strategic Plans offers a wealth of ideas, forms, organizational charts, and branding tools in four concise sections. Ready, Set, and Go! introduces the strategic planning process and explains how to start. Rally the Troops provides practical advice on how to organize, manage, and empower people. Roll It Out creates a business plan blueprint and a project planning guide, and Rock It Out includes ways to build effective teams. An invaluable resource for every music leader who wants to create a community of support around the important task of educating young musicians.

Strategic Plans for a Successful Booster Club

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