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Purchase this with "The Oz Ukulele Method" using the code "theozmethod" at checkout to receive $5 off! This is an eBook for digital download. This beginning method book teaches chords and strumming for accompanying popular music. The curriculum is based on research in motor skill learning and is accessible to anyone wanting to learn to strum popular songs. The book includes online video and audio companion. -
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by Sarah Gulish & Danielle Larrick
(20 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Want to know how to achieve a more balanced life as a music teacher? While there is no perfect formula to make life balanced and easy, there are ways in which we can create space and focus to avoid burnout and thrive in our careers. Backed by research and told through the experience of two music educators, this book provides practical tips for music teacher self-care through managing emotions, creating sound spaces, making music fun, outsourcing, and blocking time. -
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This project is intended for secondary general music classes and provides tools for engaging in active listening. This resource comes with a GoogleSlideshow (with video/audio links) and student handouts. -
This is a digital resource. This resource is intended for choral music classes and can be used either in person or through virtual instruction. Students select tonal patterns from their assigned repertoire, compose a new pattern in Noteflight, and transfer that pattern to Soundtrap for extension activities. -
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In Light of COVID-19 this resource is FREE to help remote teaching
This is a digital resource. This PDF slideshow contains everything you need to engage students in creative work through a senior serenades project. Students collaborate to create projects that honor graduating seniors in your music program. This resource includes planning and assessment tools along with project examples and additional resources that can be saved and edited via google drive. -
by Sarah Gulish and Victoria Boler
(12 Pages + over 25 pages of editable resources)
This is an eBook for digital download. The purpose of this book is to provide resources for music teachers looking to collect data to better advocate for their programs and reach students. This interactive PDF describes the various types of data, how they can be collected, and how they can be used to create a music program story to share with community members and administrators. Each purchase includes access to a google drive folder with dozens of resources and templates that can be copied and edited, including email templates, google questionnaire forms for students, parents, and colleagues, conversation starters with administrators, sample qualitative stories, sample quantitative stories, and more. -
by Chelsea Dehner
(67 slides) This is digital resource. This resource provides everything you need to recreate a music performance project for your staff or your students. Through covering John Lennon's Imagine, school staff can build community and connect with their students, whether virtual or in-person. Use the editable files that accompany this tutorial to create meaning and have some fun with those around you! -
by Meghan Cabral
( 24 pages) This is an electronic resource for digital download. Bundle this with any other book from Meghan Cabral and receive 50% off this book using the code FLIPPING2020 at checkout! AÂ flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school. It is a great way to engage students in meaningful, differentiated instruction. Want a resource on how to flip your classroom? Look no further; this is your guide to flipping! Included are popular Q&A questions as well as a step-by-step guide on how to start flipping. -
by Patrick K. Cooper and David C. Cooper
( 154 pages) This is an electronic resource for digital download. This book gives readers the knowledge they need to understand, appreciate, and create the art of radio production from broadcast to podcast. Throughout this book will be step-by-step instructions (lesson plans) for how to format and organize your show based on the type of listening experience you are trying to create. Teachers, students, hobbyists, and amateurs will learn how to craft their skills to make professional-quality broadcasts and podcasts to share with the world. -
Compiled by David A. Williams
( 459 pages) This is an electronic resource for digital download. This book contains ten curricular settings for guitar classes that are based on learner-centered pedagogical principles. Each class example was created by a pair of undergraduate music education students who were enrolled in a music education methods class designed to build skills in learner-centered techniques. These students were also co-enrolled in an ensemble course where they put their understanding into practice. In addition, they worked with k-12 students in learner-centered practicum settings. While the students lacked full-time teaching experience they were certainly grounded in learner-centered pedagogical concepts. Our hope is that music teachers, at all levels, will find ideas and inspiration in this book. Ideas and inspiration for interesting new music classes that include guitars, and for ways to enhance existing guitar classes. Ideas and inspiration that will stimulate students and help them grow into lifelong music makers. -
by Steve Holley
(150 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Coaching a Popular Music Ensemble is a comprehensive guide for the music teacher striving to meet the changing needs of their students, the university music educator examining our current music education paradigm, and the band director trying to expand their school’s music program. Using his broad experiences as an educator and Memphis musician, Holley details the philosophy and approaches he developed to create a culturally responsive, learner-driven popular music program. -
by Benjamin Taylor and Joseph Sowa
(23 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Creativity and collaboration in the classroom is easier and more fun than you might think. The creative exercises and improvisational games collected in Teaching Music Creativity were designed to help students of all abilities feel comfortable in improvising and creating new music. They have been road tested by the Music Creators Academy and are now being used as a resource by band, choir, and orchestra directors with great success. -
A Resource for You & Your Musicians
This is a digital resource.Want to engage your musicians in songwriting but don’t know where to start? This resource is for you! Get your musicians in a songwriter mindset with a step-by-step guide to create their own original song. From brainstorming ideas to branding and sharing songs, this resource will walk you through each step and provide you with the necessary resources and assessment tools. It can easily be adapted for in-person or virtual instruction.   -
by Yeshima
This is a PDF for digital download. The purpose of this lesson plan is to present a well-rounded approach to music that engages the learner from multiple perspectives using accessible instruments found around the home, as well as the voice and body percussion.  The pedagogy originated from a collection of philosophies found in Orff Schulwerk, Social and Emotional Learning, Community Drum Circles, and Mindfulness. These lessons can be modified for homeschool populations, Non-Traditional Instruction, General Music Classes, and/or community-building events. This PDF includes links to YouTube videos, plans, and materials for a lesson plan centered on Peace! -
by Alecia Hanold
(189 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. An Introductory Music Theory Curriculum provides a way for teachers to make the study of introductory music theory more engaging, collaborative, meaningful, and approachable for high-school level musicians. This book includes an overview of constructivism and constructivist pedagogy as well as full, detailed lesson plans for ten units of study in beginning music theory.  This is the first publication in the Kent State Curriculum Series. -
by Jessica Grant
(110 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Use the code "tifortwo" at checkout and receive $5 off this journal when purchased with the accompanying Afternoon Ti Book. The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music Journal allows you to take your music education experience one step further as you apply what you learn in the book The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music. You'll spend time reflecting through journaling, writing personal insights, creating lessons, and looking at the things you love about teaching in a refreshing new light. -
by Naarah Callender
(43-page teacher guide with 100 student cards) This is an e-book for digital download. Purchase includes PDF and PowerPoint files. Target Practice is a completely self-paced and flexible learning system, allowing students to learn and retain music theory concepts in an engaging and organic way through activities, games, and exploration. Students work through learning targets at their own pace to level up and improve their ear-training, sight-reading, rhythmic, and melodic skills. This is perfect for any secondary level course! -
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by Kat Reinhert and Sarah Gulish
(11 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Do you want to write songs but don't know where to start? Are you an educator looking to incorporate more songwriting in the classroom but don't know how? This resource includes five tips and strategies for getting started with songwriting in the classroom from the authors of Songwriting for Music Educators. -
edited by Steve Holley, Kat Reinhert, and Zack Moir
(208 Pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Action-based Approaches in Popular Music Education delves into the practices and philosophies of 26 experienced music educators who understand both the how and the why of popular music education. This edited collection represents the variety, the diversity, and the multiplicity of ideas and approaches to the teaching and learning of popular music. -
by Gareth Dylan Smith
69 Pages This is an eBook for digital download. This book is aimed at intermediate to more advanced drummers. Written by a seasoned professional drummer and drum educator from London, England, Sound Advice for Drummers provides tips and provocations about practising, performing, rehearsing, recording and creating music from behind the drums. It is an essential read for aspiring professional drummers. -
by Sarah Gulish
(37 pages plus video tutorials and handouts) This is an eBook for digital download. The Comprehensive Beginning Guitar Curriculum is a must-read for any music educator tasked with teaching a modern guitar class. This detailed text provides philosophy, unit plans, and resources for the development and execution of a relevant and engaging guitar program. The second edition includes updated visuals and curricular extensions. -
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by Sarah GulishÂ
This is an eBook for digital download. There is growing evidence that a regular gratitude practice will improve well-being and mental health. However, what does it look like to have a regular classroom gratitude practice? This resource contains 50 journal prompts/discussion questions centered on ten themes of gratitude. The questions are general enough to apply to any music classroom at any age level. -
by Chelsea Perrine
(65 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. In this book, you will find research to support a well-rounded and focused education for music students with special needs, templates for goal tracking and lesson planning, and suggestions for lessons and units for your students. This adaptive music curriculum is geared towards secondary-level students. This is the second publication in the Kent State Curriculum Series. -
by S. Elias James
(102 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The Music Tech Student is a compendium of information covering every major music technology topic. It’s a concise and unbiased look at the basics without leaving anything out. You’ll find it’s a fantastic trove of just the right answers to the most common questions from topics including careers, the nature of sound, acoustics, recording studios, DAWs, electronic music, audio processing, live sound, and marketing.
