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Visit QuaverMusic.com/TM82017 today and download a bonus song or poster of your choice to keep! @QuaverMusic ©2017 QuaverMusic.com, LLC January 2018 Volume 25, Number 3 PROMOTINGcontents THE UNDERSTANDING AND MAKING OF MUSIC BY ALL Music students learn cooperation, discipline, and teamwork. 42 WALKING IN STUDENTS’ FOOTSTEPS, PAVING THE PATH TO SUCCESS California music educator Brian McDaniel, a California Teacher of the Year, succeeds in a Title I school by creating an environment where all are welcome and—literally—walking in his students’ footsteps. FEATURES 22 EL MUNDO HACE 26 MUSIC 28 E TCH IS 36 N AfME ACADEMY’S MÚSICA! THE CONNECTS US! ELEMENTARY! FIRST ANNIVERSARY WORLD MAKES Get ready for Here’s how just a With more than 80 MUSIC! 2018 Music In Our few of your fellow hours of professional English Language Schools Month® . elementary music development available, Learners can greatly Take a look at these educators are using NAfME Academy helps benefit from participa- opportunities, tips, technology to teach members broaden tion in music education. and more to help improvisation, their knowledge and What are some of educators celebrate composition, earn credit to advance the best practices for music education instrument sounds, in their careers—all on recruiting, retaining, with their students and more to their their own schedules. and teaching these this March. younger musicians. students? COVER: Cherie Herring’s young students use their iPads Cover photo courtesy of Cherie Herring. Photo this page by Brittany Grey. Brittany photo courtesy of Cherie Herring. Photo this page by Cover to explain about rhythms and how they relate to math. nafme.org 1 January 2018 Volume 25, Number 3 contentsAdam Kruse’s students create hip-hop verses and beats. 55 DISCOVERIES John Burn’s Starting a fl ute chamber ensemble 20 musicians from Homestead High School WORKSHOP 12 General Music Teaching the musical DEPARTMENTS culture of the Andes 48 Brass & Woodwinds CLASSROOMS Pairing beginners with the A band in California shows what best brass instruments 49 can be done with generous funding Strings and community support. 12 String student practice journals 49 Percussion ADVOCACY Drumline: The importance As ESSA implementation moves forward, of the warm-up 50 there is still much work to be done. 14 Choral & Vocal Classroom management AMPLIFY in the choral rehearsal 51 NAfME’s new online community helps members to network, Alternatives Hip-hop: Creating in the classroom trade tips, and more. 16 52 RESEARCH STAGES The focus of the 2018 MRTE Elementary National Conference will be on diversity, Succeeding in the urban music program inclusion, equity, and access. 18 55 Secondary The children’s opera Brundibár 7 can be used to teach about the PRO•FILES Holocaust and tolerance. 56 7 Marisa Weinstein, winner of Collegiate the 2017 George N. Parks Teaching in a small rural school 58 Leadership Award … Annette Lambrecht, winner of the 2017 RESOURCES New media and accessories NAfME/ Sweet Adelines Inter- for the music classroom 60 national Music Educator Award … Alice Hammel, who teaches BRAVO! students who learn differently Teaching Music salutes musician, producer, and innovator Thomas Dolby. 64 John Reichanadter. Lamont Holden; by Jim Zumsteg; by Photos clockwise from top left: by Marisa Weinstein 2 Teaching Music JANUARY 2018 (left) STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION (Act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685 Title 39, United States Code.) Title of publication: Teaching Music. Publication Number: 1069-7446 Date of fi ling: September 29, 2017. Frequency of issue: 4 times annually—January, April, August, and October. SUMMER Subscription price: $10.00 with membership. Complete mailing address of known offi ce of publication: 1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston, VA 20191–4348. 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SESSION 2 (3) Other classes mailed through USPS: Average number SESSION 1 of copies of each issue during the preceding twelve months: 131; actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to fi ling date: 131. (4) Distribution YOU ARE WHAT DARE TO outside the mail: Average number of copies of each issue during the preceding twelve months: 0; actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to fi ling date: 0. YOU PLAY CREATE E. Total free distribution. Average number of copies of JULY 25–28, 2018 each issue during preceding twelve months: 131; actual JULY 11–14, 2018 number of copies of single issue published nearest to fi ling date: 131. F. Total distribution. Average number of copies of each Join music educators from across the country at Carnegie issue during preceding twelve months: 55,587; actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to Hall this summer for two distinct weeklong workshops on fi ling date: 45,670. G. 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