School Music Matters: A Music Education Advocacy Resource Center

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where you will find products useful for music advocacy, stress management, and taking music teaching across the curriculum... like these:


Education Rocks!	Elfis Goes West with Lewis and Clark

Freedom	Rap Of The Presidents

DonorsChoose.org helps full time (.75 and up) public school teachers identify students' needs, and connects donors to those needs. It's simple:

You set up an account.
You submit a music project request (benefitting your students), and (hopefully) donors choose to help.
Once your music project is fully funded, DonorsChoose.org sends the materials directly to your school.
Utilize your free "Thank You Kit" and send thank you notes to your donors. It's that simple!

DonorsChoose.org is in no way associated with Plank Road Publishing or School Music Matters.

< Survey results: School music funding in the past year has... (View more charts and graphs from our 2009 survey, and from previous surveys.)
Teachers from all over the country have taken our School Music Matters survey. Find out what they had to say about the state of music education in their communities.

The main goal of SchoolMusicMatters.com is to help music teachers protect their school music programs. Below are some of the many resources we offer to help you:
Ideas from your peers on how to promote school music	Links to advocacy and resource sites, with a brief site summary
Facts to help convince the uninformed of just how vital school music is	Downloads, including graphics you can use in newsletters and music you can perform
Quotations on music, education, and life to use in newsletters or on bulletin boards - or just for inspiration


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