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March is Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM), and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) website provides ideas on how to participate in MIOSM and promote support for school music

Music in Our Schools Month

By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer

Now, when public school music programs face budget cuts, is a critical time to support music in our schools. March is Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM), and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) website provides ideas in how to participate in MIOSM and promote support for school music. A menu offers downloadable MIOSM logos for web and print use, and activity ideas. How to Incorporate Music in Your Subject Suggests how teachers can include music in math, foreign language, social studies, language arts classes.

Lesson Plans

ReadWriteThink.org has a number of K-12 lesson plans suitable for MIOSM as do ArtsAlive and ArtsEdge. Here are some sample lessons and activities:

Learn more at http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/51007.htm