SupportMusic provides tools and resources to advance community support for music education. You CAN make a difference!
Support Music Resources
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Why Learn to Play Music
This helpful resource communicates the benefits of music education — to school and community leaders, to parents, and to students. Includes new research and statistics showing how music makes a difference in a child's education.
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Now More Than Ever
This helpful info is presented in the form of a simple, six-step, call-to-action for concerned citizens working together to counter budget cuts to music programs.
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Keep Music Education Strong
This helpful presentation supplement is a bilingual (Spanish & English) hand-out for school board meetings, community forums and to help activate parent-teacher groups.
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Community Action Kit
A step-by-step guide and toolkit on how to set up a community music advocacy coalition. Includes power point presentations, PSAs, posters, mailers, petition and letter templates, sample media releases and more.
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Bridging the Gap between Middle School and High School
A helpful resource containing tips for ensuring a seamless music education experience.
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A Practical Guide for Recruitment and Retention
The brief description of what this resource is and who it is intended for should go right here.
Join the Support Music Coalition
Join this national network of people everywhere working to assure that music education is part of the core curriculum for all children. Receive communications about monthly conference calls, events at the NAMM Show and state and local forum events.
Hear from teachers, parents, students, school, community and business leaders, elected officials and musical celebrities sharing why music education is important and what they are doing to assure that it is available to all children.
To join the SupportMusic Coalition and have your company listed as an official affiliate, email SupportMusic@namm.org.