Calling all music teachers! GIVE A NOTE FOUNDATION’S Fall 2018 Music Education Innovator Award Call for Submissions Extended to October 31! Nashville (October 8) – The Fall 2018 Give A Note Foundation Music Education Innovator Award – honoring the most creative and effective school music programs – is pleased to announce the deadline for entries […]
It that time of year! It is Cinco de Mayo (5th of May). I would like to share how I celebrate this holiday in my music classroom. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is a day to celebrate Mexican music, Mexican food, and Mexican cultural arts. On television, we see many products such as […]
Photo: Members of the Ramona Dynasty band of Ramona High School in Riverside, CA, perform during Give A Note’s 2017 Music In Our Schools Tour. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Ashley Wales Give A Note Foundation (805) 236-4928 AshleyW@giveanote.org Give A Note Foundation Awards Five Music Programs for Innovation in Music Education Schools of Five […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Ashley Wales Give A Note Foundation (850) 236-4928 AshleyW@giveanote.org Give A Note Foundation Announces Innovation Funding Opportunity Developed by the CMA Foundation, New Grants Award Music Programs and Educators for Innovative and Replicable Ideas March 6, 2018 (Reston, VA)—Music educators are familiar with how financially challenging it is to run a […]
Goal-Setting and School Grants Give a Note board member Renier Fee connected with the Music & Arts 2017 Music Educator of the Year, Christine Cumberledge of Central Junior High School, Hurst, TX, to discuss goal-setting and school grants. As a music education veteran for 21 years, she knows how to make every penny count. […]
Last year Give A Note Foundation presented a grant to Tar River Elementary School in Tar River, North Carolina. Music educator Angela Mangum shared the impact of that grant with us recently. How has the Give a Note grant made an impact on your program? “Having the [Music In Our Schools] Tour come to Tar […]
At Entenmann’s®, we’re excited to be celebrating a dozen decades of sweet memories this month! And while it may be our birthday, we want to give our fans the presents AND the gift of music to children across the country. Our team is passionate about giving back to our communities, and it’s been a cornerstone […]
Segue 61: You Must Be Present to Win When Damon Atkins walked into my office on the campus of Catawba College in December, 2015, the words he spoke left me speechless, a foreign state for me. “Whatever you tell me to do next, I’m going to do. I think I want to quit school […]
There are simply no words to describe the impact Give A Note Foundation has made not only in the lives of our students, but also in my teaching. Student participation is like never before — 100%! Because we have an adequate and abundant array of instruments, we can reach a multitude of student interests. Our […]
How Piano Led to a Passion for Music Retail Music has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. My father started teaching me to play the piano when I was 4 1/2 years old, and seeing my immediate interest and love for the instrument, he enrolled me […]
