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by Alice Tsui
This is a digital resource for immediate download The “Superstar, Superstar” Purpose, Teaching, and Student Reflection Guides by Alice Tsui is a digital resource that accompanies the instrumental of an innovative Beyoncé song. This disco and house inspired resource is an unapologetic celebration of personal identity for our arts educators and the youth in our lives! Adaptable for students Pre-K through 5th Grades with extension activities for 6th through 12th Grades, this resource includes both a teaching guide and student reflection guide as downloadable PDF, and a choreography video with movements to accompany the song. -
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This is an interactive eBook for digital access“This Snowman” is a wonderful and whimsical collection of thirteen classic nursery rhyme tunes that we know and love with Christmas themes. Songs like “This Snowman”, “Ho Ho Santa”, “Little Man Sam”, and “Mary Had A Little Boy” will bring out the Christmas spirit in everyone and be a solid addition to any Christmas book collection. Each purchase includes access to the interactive flipbook (with video singalongs) and a PDF download with illustrations and lyrics. -
by Alice Tsui
This is a digital resource for immediate download The “Now It’s Music Time” Purpose, Teaching, and Student Reflection Guides by Alice Tsui are digital resources based on a popular hit by Lizzo. This disco, funk, and hip hop selection can empower healing and celebration of self in the music classroom! Adaptable for students Pre-K through 5th Grades with extension activities for 6th through 12th Grades, this resource includes both a teaching guide and student reflection guide as downloadable PDF, and a choreography video with movements to accompany the verses and choruses. -
This is a digital product for immediate access and download. Ruthie's favorite music store is closed! Undeterred, she and her best friend, Frankie, create makeshift instruments and start playing in the streets. They inspire friends to join, creating a joyful symphony that unites the community, showing the power of music to uplift spirits and bring people together in hope and resilience. Access the interactive flipbook and digital teaching guide to accompany the paperback version. -
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Across six themed sections — Newbie Life, Performance Antics, Lasting Legacy, Teacher Growing Pains, Learning to Let Students Lead, and I’ll Never Do That Again — music educators from around the world share the moments that shaped them: from overdressing on the first day and surviving kindergarten chaos to the triumphs that remind us why we teach at all.
Equal parts comedy and celebration, Classroom Confidential is a love letter to the teachers who make music, and magic, happen every day. -
by Gareth Dylan Smith
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 Thomas Velsor
(36 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The purpose of this method is to provide a beginner double bass text that does not require shifting positions. By avoiding the need to shift, the student can spend their first lessons focusing on musicianship skills, and correct hand positions. This text would also be a good fit for any student performing in a concert band, as well as students who are not beginners but are new to the half position. -
by Edward Varner
(40 Pages) This is an eBook for digital download. How can we effectively advocate for the value of ensemble programs? Many educators and parents remain unaware of the value of the school band beyond obvious, natural entertainment contexts and find it easy to devalue school band along with other arts programming. This text highlights evidence that supports music and school band as methods to achieve improved student success in school. This eBook will better inform decisions that school administrators make about existing scheduling challenges and financial dilemmas facing American schools. -
Interactive eBook This is an eBook for digital download. Each purchase comes with a PDF version of the book and an interactive flipbook with sound. Ms. Niki’s Music in the Air eBook takes children on a journey to discover sounds that are always around us. In the story, Ms. Niki asks children in her Music class to listen closely to the sounds and the rhythmic patterns in the air. First, Ms. Niki’s Music Class follows her to the playground to discover the sounds of music. Those sounds include the clapping of children cheering. Next, they begin to clap to the beat. Then Ms. Niki gets the children to hear the rhythms of the stomps from children dancing. Lastly, she points out the pattern of sounds from the insects in the trees. Note: To access the interactive flipbook, you must check out with an account, not anonymously. -
by Steve Giddings
This is an eBook for digital download. Figurative Language Through Song is for music teachers trying to incorporate songwriting into their classes, or for Language Arts teachers exploring figurative language or song lyrics. This resource is designed to take teacher/facilitators through a tried and tested unit plan on exploring figurative language through its role in song lyrics that is easy to emulate and execute all the while giving learners opportunities to create their own song lyrics and poetry. The eBook’s many components can be edited and altered to fit any facilitator’s particular style or needs.
