Advocacy
- Community Action Kit from SupportMusic.com: A collection of documents that will help you advocate for a complete education that includes music instruction for every child.
- Essential Music Advocacy: A large collection of advocacy materials from The Selmer Company
- How to be a music and fine arts advocate from FMEA
- Music Advocacy Articles for Parents, Teachers, and Administrators from Children’s Music Workshop
- Music is: An inspirational text that links music into all subject areas.
Articles
- December Dilemma: What should schools do about Christmas? from First Amendment Center
- Does music with a sacred text have a place in the public schools? from MENC
- How to Vocalize a Choir and Keep Vocal Health by David L. Jones
- Training the speaking voice through singing by Kenneth L. Sipley
- United States Copyright Law – A guide for music educators from MENC
- Vocal Training in Chorus by Robert Russell
- Want Boys in your Choir? Challenge them! by Stan Carlson
Choral Web Sites
- Choral Director Magazine: A free magazine for choral directors — excellent!
- Choral MIDI files on The Silvis Woodshed
- ChoralNet: A central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.
- Choral Public Domain Library: Access to FREE choral works in the public domain. Also, you can find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
- Chorus Teacher Resources: a collection of FREE worksheets, assignments, and other things helpful to chorus teachers.
- Cipoo: Another site containing FREE choral works in the public domain.
- Hear the Choirs Sing: a directory of choral music clips in various formats
- Musictheory.net: Free music theory lessons
Classroom Aids
- Cheat Sheet: lines and spaces, keyboard, note & rest values
- Choir room seating chart
- First day student information card
- Major scales
- My vocal range chart with Cooksey’s voice classification key
- Kodaly Solfege Hand Sign Illustrations: Diatonic | Chromatic
- Kodaly Solfege Hand Sign Photos: Major | Natural Minor | Harmonic Minor | Melodic Minor | Chromatic Ascending | Chromatic Descending
- Staff paper @ www.blanksheetmusic.net
Classroom Management / Discipline
- DisciplineHelp.com: a reference for handling over 117 misbehaviors at school and home
- Take home detentions: Eating/Drinking, Disruptions, Late, Respect
Clinic / Workshop Handouts
- Choral Adjudication: A positive experience for the choral director by Mark Scott and Dale Choate
- Pacing in the choral rehearsal by Judy Bowers
- Recruiting: What Works for Me by Sandy Hinkley
- Sight Reading Strategies for Success by Matthew Swope
- Success with adolescent singers by Al Holcomb
- What teaching boys has taught me by Ken Berg
Concert Programs
- Template #1 in MS Word
- Template #2 in MS Word
- Template #3 in MS Publisher
- Template #4 in MS Word
- Template #5 in MS Word
Curriculum
- Choral Curriculum for Orange County Public Schools, Florida
- Sequential 6-8 chorus curriculum
- Sequential 6-8 sight singing curriculum
- National Music Voluntary Standards: K-12 and PreK from MENC
- Sunshine State Standards: Music 6-8
- Sunshine State Standards: Music 9-12
Field Trips
Festival / MPA
- Chaperone expectations letter
- Chaperone letter
- Student letter and permission slip #1
- Student letter and permission slip #2
- Student letter and permission slip #3
- Student letter and permission slip #4
Handbooks
- Cypress Lake High School Center for the Arts 0405
- Diplomat Middle School 0708
- Gladwin High School 0910
- Kingwood High School Choir 0405
Handbook Related Docs
- Handbook confirmation page: Parent and student signatures
- Handbook agreement form
- Parent Volunteer Form
- Student Information Form
- Student Health Summary Form
Lesson Plans
- Chorus lesson plan template #1 by Jessica Jones
- Chorus lesson plan template #2 for Orange County Public Schools, Florida (file lost?)
- Ice breaker ideas & More Ice Breakers
- Music staff review game
- Music basketball
Miscellaneous
- Concert etiquette from MENC
- Encouraging your child to produce a healthy voice fact sheet from the Institute of Child Health
- Hear the Choirs Sing: a web directory of sites that offer choral music clips in various formats
- On song, out of tune: a great article that can’t seem to be found anywhere else online anymore
- SuperScope Recording FAQ: This answers some questions not covered in the product manual.
- Twenty Suggestions for Success at Solo & Ensemble MPA: For participating students
- Vocal Health Resources: for singers and speakers
New Teacher Guides
- New beginnings by Elaine McNamara
- New teachers guide by Scott Evans
PC Software & Technology
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition: This antiviral program offers rock-solid protection for no financial commitment. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition provides all the necessities, including a tool for scanning your hard drive and e-mail, as well as a real-time shield to prevent infections.
- Cute PDF: This free application allows you to create PDF files from any application on your computer. Very handy for sending music files to people who don’t have the same program (Finale, Sibelius, etc.)
- Firefox: This free internet browser is a popular alternative to Internet Explorer.
- FREE online virus scan: Scan your PC for viruses using Trend Micro’s web site.
- OpenOffice.org: Compatible with other major office suites (like Microsoft Office), OpenOffice.org is free to download and distribute. You can use it to open Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and other documents.
Professional Organizations
- ACDA: American Choral Directors Association
- Florida ACDA
- Florida Collegiate MENC
- FMEA / FSMA: Florida Music Educators Association / Florida School Music Association
- MENC: The National Association for Music Education
- NATS: National Association of Teachers of Singing
Reading and music
- Making the connection between music and reading by Sandy Hinkley
- Parallel strategies for music and text by Sandy Hinkley
Repertoire
- ChoralNet’s repertoire questions and discussion
- MS changing voice / boys chorus literature by Stan Carlson
- MS Tried and True by Keitha Bledsoe and Nancy DeCoux; all voicings
Sight Singing & Ear Training
- FREE sight singing exercises by Jussi Doherty
- Big Ears: free online ear trainer
- Good-Ear.com: another free online ear trainer
- Sequential 6-8 sight singing curriculum
- Sight Reading Project by Kevin Albright
- Sight Reading Strategies for Success by Matthew Swope
- Tips on teaching sight reading
Worksheets
Chorus Assignments
- Chorus exam for middle school
- Concert evaluation
- Concert makeup assignments: 01, 02, 03
- Dictation Quiz
- Listening journal
- Participation rubric
- Rehearsal reflection log
- Solo singing assignment
Movies
- Amadeus
- Bach’s Fight for Freedom
- Beethoven Lives Upstairs
- Finding Nemo
- Handel’s Last Chance
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Les Choristes Study Guide
- Les Miserables
- Mr. Holland’s Opus
- My Fair Lady: Music synopsis, study guide, and test
- Newsies
- Pirates of Penzance
- Sister Act
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Sound of Music: Music synopsis, study guide, and test
- Story Map: A worksheet to use with ANY movie
- West Side Story: study guide
