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What Is Elemental Music?
For a deeper dive, click here to listen to this Elemental Conversation with Victoria Boler If you are like many music teachers out there you have probably heard the term Elemental Music before. You may have also wondered at some point in your life what that phrase means. It’s one of those things that we…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Reflect
Crystal Pridmore invites you to participate in a journaling exercise to reflect on the past year in order to process and heal.
Read MoreMaking It Work: Relearning the Music Room
LeslieAnne Bird shares suggestions for refamiliarizing your students with making music together in your space.
Read MoreMaking It Work: Summer Reading 2021
LeslieAnne Bird sets aside time to read three teaching-related books each summer to learn something new and improve as a music educator and human. This is her list for 2021.
Read MoreInspiration from Fellow Music Educators
We wanted to share some inspiration for the end of the most difficult year ever from your fellow music educators.
Read MoreMaking It Work: Summer Orff Levels
Opportunities to create joyful music, make life-long friends, and become better facilitators are available throughout the country. Learn what to expect from each Orff Levels course.
Read MoreMaking It Work: Take it Outside, 2021
Now that the weather is warmer for just about everyone in the US, it is a great time to take music class outside! LeslieAnne Bird shares updated ideas for outdoor music class in 2021.
Read MoreI Notice – I Wonder – I Value
AOSA Executive Director, Carrie Barnette, reflects on how teachers have adapted to new ways of making music with children and how AOSA has adjusted to support teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreTransformative SEL in the Music Room
Darlene Machacon recognizes that tending to students’ mental health needs is more important now than ever. Events of the past year have amplified the inequities that have always existed in our systems, which has led to the definition of Transformative SEL.
Read MoreBook Review: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education
Richard Lawton shares an insightful review of Vicki Lind’s and Connie McCoy’s book Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education.
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