This list of resources was complied by online volunteers from the Virtual Volunteering Project.
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NAMM
NAMM is the trade organization of the music products industry, and is a generous supporter of the National Music Foundation. NAMM also funds several music related not-for-profit organizations, including:
The International Foundation for Music Research
The American Music Council (AMC)
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The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)
1620 Fredrica St., Owensboro, KY 42301
270-684-9025
The IBMA's Bluegrass in the Schools offers resources for teachers who want to explore this exciting American music. The DVD Discover Bluegrass "introduces young (and young at heart) viewers to an original, joyful and uniquely American genre of acoustic roots music. Six instructional units, each roughly 10 minutes in length, explore the history and evolution of bluegrass music, starting with its old-time music roots and continuing through contemporary styles."
The IBMA also offers a Bluegrass in the Schools Implementation Manual, Mini-Grant Matching Funds and Teacher Training Workshops.
Click here for the IBMA web site
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Chamber Music America
545 Eighth Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10018
(212) 244-2772
CMA conducts seminars for teachers, sponsors awards for music teaching, and publishes a newsletter for educators.
Clikc here for the Chamber Music America web site
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Consortium of National Arts Education Associations
Music Educators National Conference
1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston, VA 20191
(703) 860-4000 / (800) 828-0229
Information on voluntary standards for arts education.
Click here for the MENC web site
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Council of Chief State School Officers
1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20001-1431
(202) 408-5505
Contact CCSS0 for information about the national assessment of arts education, for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP is a Congressionally mandated project of the U.S. Department of Education. It is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what American students know and can do in
various subject areas.
Click here for the CCSSO web site
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The Galef Institute
11050 Santa Monica Blvd. Third Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90025-3594
(310) 479-8883 / (800) 473-8883
The Galef has developed a curriculum and teacher-training program called Different Ways of Knowing, which integrates history and social studies with literature, the arts, writing, math, and science. Collaborative projects are underway throughout the nation and in Mississippi.
Click here for the Galef Institute's web site
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2000 Arts Education Partnership
1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001-1431
(202) 336-7065
The Partnership is the result of the Goals 2000 Arts Education planning process and has as its mission to see comprehensive, sequential, and quality arts education provided to every child in every school in America.
Click here for 2000 Arts Education Partnership
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The Foundation would like to thank NAMM: The International Music Products Association for their generous support.
For more about NAMM, please click here to visit their web site.
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