The MENC National Executive Board has designated the MENC headquarters building in Reston, Virginia as "The National Center for Music Education.& ...
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Washington, DC
Music educators, students and their family members are invited to Washington, DC in June 2009 for music education ad ...
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moreMENC Northwest Division Conference
Managed by Washington Music Educators Association
February 13-16, 2009
Spokane, WA ...
moreMENC North Central Division Conference
Managed by Indiana Music Educators Association
January 22-24, 2009
Indianapolis, IN ...
moreMENC Eastern Division Conference
Managed by Rhode Island Music Educators Association
March 12-15, 2009
Providence, RI
Call For Research Pa ...
moreSign up for Summer 2009 Teaching Guitar Workshops around the nation -- exclusively forMENC members!
Guitar is the answer for students who love ...
more10th Biannual Mountain Lake Colloquium for Teachers of General Music Methods
"Inventing and Reinventing Music Teacher Education"
May ...
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Music In Our Schools Month
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moreFebruary 19 – 22, 2009
The Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL
Disney Jazz Celebration Web Site
A unique event open to instrumenta ...
moreThe Practice of Assessment in Music Education: Frameworks, Models, and DesignsThe Second International Symposium on Assessment in Music EducationUnive ...
moreMarch 5 - 9, 2009
The Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL
The Disney Honors Web Site
The Disney Honors is a non-competitive music f ...
moreThe Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL2009 Dates:March 13 & 14March 19, 20, & 21March 26, 27, & 28April 2, 3, & 4April 16, ...
moreMENC Southwestern Division SymposiumMusic for All: Teaching Music in Urban and Rural SchoolsJune 15-17, 2009Dallas, TXPresented by the Texas Music Edu ...
moreMENC: The National Association for Music Education presents The 2008 “Caitlin Classic” Caitlin Merie Hurrey Scholarship Fund Golf Tou ...
moreThe MENC National Executive Board met over the New Year’s weekend in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to chairing the Board meeting, MENC Pr ...
moreThe January '09 issue of Teaching Music will arrive just in time for a brand new year. Look for these features and news stories.
Feat ...
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The Conn-Men pose outside MENC headquarters.
The Conn-Men rock the jingle bells at MENC headquarters.
The Conn-Men, an ...
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On January 5, 2008, the first-ever U.S. Army All-American Marching Band (USAAAMB) took the field at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. The ...
moreThe Magic of Middle School Musicals Now Available from MENC: The National Association for Music Education and Rowman & Littlefield Education
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moreMENC has participated in and supported Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), an effort based at the Smithsonian Institution, since its inception in 2002. Eac ...
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Brigadier General Donald Leins of the U.S. Army (left) presents the USAAAMB shako to Ben Leventhal.
On November 24, U.S Army representatives, b ...
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What a gift! The December issue of Music Educators Journal includes feature stories and news items for the music education community. Rip off the wr ...
moreThe Robins Elementary School Chorus performed "The Star-Spangled Banner at an aviation museum for a segment included in MENC's 2008 World's Large ...
moreMENC congratulates and thanks those members celebrating 25 and 50 years of membership in MENC between August 1, 2008 and July 31, 2009.
50 Years
Don ...
moreAccording to Bennett Reimer, Michael L. Mark’s A Concise History of American Music Education “tells the story of American music education ...
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The November 2008 issue of Teaching Music offers a look at the changing world of music education. Look for these stories when the journal arri ...
moreNew Book on Special Learners Explores Different Ways of LearningWhen Elise S. Sobol discusses her work teaching music to special needs students, her p ...
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On October 17, the spotlight was on jazz at the Langston Hughes Auditorium in New York City, as the National Endowment for the Arts hosted a symposi ...
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Call for Nominations:
Music Educators Journal Advisory Board
MENC is seeking nominations for a new group of contributors to the work of Musi ...
moreReady, Set, Record VH1 Music Studio Commercial Free in November and December
Roger Daltrey (L) and Pete Townshend of "The Who" perform on ...
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Professor (Willie L.) Hill Jr. enjoys performing.
Former MENC President Willie L. Hill Jr. has been named to Grambling St ...
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The October '08 issue of Teaching Music will be in the mail soon. Check out this lively roundup of stories when it arrives:
Music for V ...
moreMENC introduced “My Music Class,” an online teaching idea center and lesson plan library for music teachers, in April 2008. The Web Market ...
moreMENC staff commemorated the 194th anniversary of the penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner" today by singing America's national anthem at the ...
more MENC is notified of deaths of members throughout the year through state music educators associations, family members and other sources. T ...
moreThe bylaws of MENC's new Society for Jazz Education are now available online.
MENC members who indicate on their membership record that the ...
moreEditor’s Note: In October 2007 MENC member David L. Woten was named 2008 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Woten teaches sixth-and seventh-grade ...
more In June 2008 music teachers and their students gathered in Washington, DC for performances in support of music education. MENC plans ...
moreTom Batiuk, creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean, was one of three finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.  ...
moreMENC released the newest edition in its award-winning series of radio public service announcements featuring top pop and country musicians for “ ...
moreOn June 13, 2008, students, teachers, and community members gathered on Capitol Hill to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and raise awareness ...
moreIn June 2008, the MENC National Executive Board named the MENC headquarters in Reston, Virginia, The National Center for Music Education. In July a sl ...
moreKids who have no problem acting out a movie scene in the cafeteria or doing a monologue for friends on the school bus often freeze up when called upon ...
moreFor the 2008-2009 school year, MENC members will receive Music Educators Journal and Teaching Music on a new schedule.
Music Educators Journal ...
moreIn July, MENC received letters of congratulations from Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) regarding the 2008 U.S. Army All-A ...
moreCaitlin Merie Hurrey Memorial Scholarship Named in Memory of Budding Musician
Four recipients were recently named in the fifth annual Caitlin Me ...
moreWhether music educators are headed back to school right away or still have a few weeks to prepare, the August 2008 issue of Teaching Music offers new ...
moreOn June 13 MENC President and choral director Barbara L. Geer conducted 1,000 music students and their teachers in singing "The Star-Spangled Ban ...
moreMENC is one of only 11 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence in the third round of the 2008 Associations Advance America (AAA) Aw ...
moreA new society is coming to MENC. The National Executive Board has announced plans to form a Society for Jazz Education to serve the unique profession ...
moreThe national spotlight focused on music education on June 13, 2008, as 1,000 students from across the country, YouTube sensation the “Cactus Cuties ...
moreGentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) magazine announced that MENC is one of five charitable organizations chosen as recipients of the 2008 Gentlemen's Fund in ...
moreAbout the National Chapter of the Year Award
The Tri-M National Chapter of the Year program is designed to motivate and reward chapters that develop a ...
moreNew Survey Finds Americans Overwhelmingly Support Teaching National Anthem in Schools and Agree Music Education Impacts Success in Other SubjectsOn Ju ...
more About the Talent Search Sponsored by MENC and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the Electronic Music Composition Competition recognizes ...
moreMENC Launches New Web Site for Legislative Alerts
Along with the launch of its updated Web site, MENC has begun posting to its brand new advocacy ...
moreMENC: The National Association for Music Education launched a special section of its Web site just for jazz educators on May 30. The section includes ...
more A performance by The African Children's Choir was an MENC Conference highlight. Coming soon to a mailbox near you, June ’08 Teaching Music o ...
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At the MENC National Biennial Conference in Milwaukee MENC asked members:
Is there a place in Music Education for Rock and Roll?
“Absolutely. ...
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moreThe National Museum of American History celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April each year, drawing public attention to jazz as both a histor ...
moreMENC will step forward to meet the challenge to the music education community caused by the dissolution of the International Association for Jazz E ...
more Jenni Koenemann joins other music-makers at MENC Conference Shortly after she returned from MENC's National Biennial Conference in Milwaukee, first-y ...
more “For music teachers, what we do isn’t a job. It is a lifestyle. It is a passion. When we come to the conference, we spend time with other people ...
more According to Director Colonel Michael Colburn, the two students chosen as the inaugural winners of “The President’s Own” United States Marine ...
moreIn April, the MENC National Executive Board (NEB) voted to replace the association’s long-standing national biennial conference with an annual natio ...
moreIn January 2008, MENC’s online Question of the Month asked members about health issues for music educators and music students. 374 members responded ...
moreFor one month in 2007, William Gradante acted as mariachi mentor for MENC’s online community of music educators. Many of the questions he received w ...
moreScott C. Shuler had a “really good” band teacher in high school. When he headed off to college, even though he planned to major in physics or psyc ...
moreMENC members in the Southern, North Central, and Western Divisions elected music educators who will take on the role of president-elect for the next t ...
moreThis summer MENC members can learn to teach guitar to beginning students. The MENC Guitar Education Team is taking applications for free Teaching Guit ...
moreMusic educator and author Lois Veenhoven Guderian has an exercise she likes to conduct with students beginning to learn the soprano recorder. She play ...
moreMENC helped debut a new three-day adjudication seminar March 27-29. Participants traveled to Orlando, Florida, to learn effective feedback technique, ...
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