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Pop Songs with Pedagogical Connections – Rita Alway curates this page to help you find school-appropriate pop songs that can be used to teach/practice rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic elements of music.
SVCC – Joy Anderson, assistant director of Shenandoah Valley Children’s Chorus, currently teaches and directs K-5 music and high school musicals at Eastern Mennonite School.
A Music Specialist and Chorus Director at Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School in San Francisco, Gemma Arguelles has taught in the HNU Kodály Summer Institute since 1997.
Music Education Forward – Nyssa Brown helps music teachers and educational leaders create learning opportunities that transform student experience, increase teacher capacity, and expand community collaboration.
Minami Cohen – A native of Okinawa, Japan, Minami Cohen strives to promote quality music education and make it accessible to all students and educators alike. She is a founding member of Green Sally Up Project.
Vimari on Pinterest – a music educator and flutist, Vimari Colón-León curates this hip Pinterest page where you’ll find awesome activities for your music classroom as well boards on art, travel, purses, and (my favorite) boots.
Mirium Factora has conducted revolutionary research towards the indigenization and localization of the music education program in the Philippines resulting in the publication of several outstanding folksong collections.
Glass Menagerie – Susan Glass has enjoyed a rich and varied career as a music educator, and is the founder & director of The Glass Menagerie.
Erin Heisel | Soprano is one of those rare beings who doesn’t need a degree in MusEd to be an outstanding educator in music. Her lectures for music majors and non-majors undergraduate students are incredibly interesting, informative, interactive, and fun.
350 Years of Black Presence in Boston: “Building Traditions” – by Betty Hillman, incredible thinker, as well as Professor of Music at Roxbury Community College and at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts.
HHS Media – Beth Houff has been the choral director at Harrisonburg High School, located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, since 2003. She served on the design team of the innovative Harrisonburg High School Fine Arts Academy where colleagues in dance, drama, music, visual art, and creative writing teach collaboratively in a sequential and integrated arts curriculum.
A music educator as well as performer; enjoy these beautiful selections with Naomi Katz Cohen as featured singer.
Kuddes Music – in addition to many other amazing things, Kathy Kuddes curates an On-line Folk Music Resources page that can’t be beat.
Cultivating Creative Musicians – designed as a resource for music educators striving to cultivate musical skills and independence in young children by Leigh Ann Garner.
World Songs & Conversations – Joan Litman is a seasoned music educator with a passion for traditional and international folk songs. If you want to broaden your repertoire of global songs, her website is for you.
CYLoong – Chet-Yeng Loong serves as chair of the music education area at the University of Hawai’i. If you are searching for authentic music from Asian Cultures for your music classroom, look no further.
CDSS Dance It Yourself – long-time contra dance caller, Robbin Marcus, hosts this video series to keep you dancing when you just can’t get out and about.
Mrs. Miracle’s Music Room – Aileen Miracle loves sharing lessons, activities, units, and classroom decor that have enriched her students’ education and will do so for yours.
Music Is Something You Do – interview with Gail Needleman who taught music at Holy Names University in Oakland, California. Her work as a writer and teacher addresses the essential role of music in the moral and spiritual development of children.
Essex Children’s Choir of Vermont – Constance J. Price, Founding Director, is a gifted teacher, musician and Kodály training exemplar who has dedicated her life to music education at the highest level for children.
Walton Music – well-known by children, parents, and music educators, Jill Trinka is “a dynamic, winsome, and energetic teacher and performer.” Truth.
Managing Director for the nonprofit Early Childhood Music & Movement Association, and the Coordinator of Music Education at Adelphi University, Heather Waters believes that music educators must enact educational change by engaging in socially relevant, community-based music making.
Organizations that Support Female Musicians
Music By Women (formerly Music Theory Examples by Women) – a non-profit educational company and publisher of high-quality easily-accessible materials striving to elevate the visibility of women composers and theorists.
Hildegard Publishing Company – their publishing mission is to seek out and publish compositions by women composers which display the highest level of excellence and musical merit.