August Issue of Teaching Music Recaps Music Education Week in Washington
Why is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar posing with a stack of boxes? Read August '09 Teaching Music.
It may be August, but in many areas it's already back to school. The August issue of Teaching Music, arriving in members' mailboxes soon, offers information to help music teachers prepare for the upcoming school year. Article topics include:
- Ways to use Appalachian dulcimer music in the classroom
- Tips from master music educators
- Music travel in tough times
In addition, the issue offers an extensive review of MENC's first Music Education Week in Washington in June. Highlights included:
- The Rally for Music Education where U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan accepted more than 120,000 signatures on MENC's Petition for Equal Access to Music Education.
- Performances and appearances by Florence Henderson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joshua Redman
- A bicentennial celebration for President Abraham Lincoln with "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band at the Lincoln Memorial
- A series of professional development academies where music educators studied performance, general music, technology and jazz in-depth
- Student performances around Washington, DC
- The summer season opener for Drum Corps International at U.S. Navy Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
In Upbeat, the MENC news section, stories include:
- Teachers can submit proposals for the World's Largest Concert®
- Music Education Week returns in 2010
- MENC's Back to School "Why Music?" PSAs advocate for school music programs
- A new book explores music programs for young minds
- Make your case with a new advocacy database
- Nominate students for 2011 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band.
--Roz Fehr, July 30, 2009. © MENC: The National Association for Music Education