Make Moments Matter - with David RowDavid Rowe is a Georgia-based Music teacher and member of the Atlanta Orff Chapter who runs the Make Moments Matter blog, Make Moments Matter podcast, and sells featured resources on his TPT store. In this blog he not only shares lesson ideas, but he explains the resources he uses and classroom tricks for making lesson flow successful and meaningful!
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Beth's Notes - with Beth ThompsonBeth's Notes is a great Orff-based blog with a well organized resource bank of music, printables, and downloadable content. Search for resources by melodic content, rhythmic content, Orff application, or recorder. Beth also hosts an expansive list of notated songs and lesson ideas, and she offers paid-membership access to exclusive resources.
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Music A La Abbott - with Amy AbbottThis Kodaly inspired Blog is great for finding melody and movement based resources. This blog also hosts an expansive resource bank that is easy to navigate and search for content by grade, rhythm, melody, movement and more. In addition to instructional tools, Amy Abbott also shares ideas for technology integration, classroom management, assessment, and program planning.
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Cara at MiscellaneousMe - with Cara CoffeyThis blog is for teachers that adore getting creative and crafty! While it does not host as many downloadable materials, Cara Coffey is great at sharing ideas for lessons and her blog often includes links to source material. She also shares a lot of great crafting ideas for making beautiful music decor for your classroom!
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Pitch Publications - with Shelley TomichBefore turning Pitch Publications into her full-time career, Shelley was a Fulton music teacher herself! She is the author of a variety of lesson plans and teaching resources, including Pitch Hill and Rainbow Ukulele. Her creations are colorful and engaging, and many of them use higher-order thinking to drive student engagement. In addition to following her blog, you can purchase hundreds of fun resources on her Teacher Pay Teachers store.
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Mrs. Miracle's Music Room - With Aileen MiracleAileen Miracle was a Past President of the Midwest Kodaly Music Educators of America, has taught Level I & III for DePaul University's Kodaly Program, and Level I Methodology and Folk Song Research for Colorado State University's Kodaly Program. Her blog has a TON of amazing resources and also features a podcast called The Music Room.
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Organized Chaos - with Elizabeth CaldwellElizabeth Caldwell is an elementary music teacher and world traveler. He mission through the Organized Chaos blog is to embrace the "chaos" of artistic creativity while maintaining resources and structured organization. Her blog contains lessons ideas, behavior management strategies, parenting tips, classroom and home organization tricks, and a variety of curriculum resources for a general music curriculum.
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Mrs. King's Music Class and The Bulletin Board Lady - with Tracy KingTracy King has shared her love of music with students and colleagues for more than twenty years. In her career she has experienced teaching all grade levels, band and choir. She has presented workshops on using visual aids/props to teach music, incorporating writing in music classrooms, and creating workstations that teach music. In addition to the work she has done as a music educator, she also has led several workshops on incorporating music within general classroom settings and has a large following and TPT store for her colorful classroom decor as "The Bulletin Board Lady".
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Teaching with Orff - MMBTeaching With Orff was created as a place for Music & Movement educators to share information, collaborate, and connect. The lesson plans and articles are authored by experts in the field, master teachers with high levels of training in Orff-Schulwerk and other disciplines that combine Music & Movement education.
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Kodaly Inspired Classroom - With Lindsay Jervis Lindsay Jervis is a Past President of Kodaly Music Educators of Kansas and have served on the KMEK board as President, President Elect, and Publicity Chair in the past. She has also served on the Kansas Music Educators Association board. Jervis is a strong advocate for the Kodaly method and uses sequence, folk songs, and music literacy tools to develop her lessons and the resources sold in her TPT store.
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The Ways Children Learn Music - With Eric BluestineEric Bluestine has been teaching elementary general music for 30 years, earned his Ph.D. in music education from Temple University, and is the author of The Ways Children Learn Music: An Introduction and Practical Guide to Music Learning Theory. Eric is a an advocate for Music Learning Theory and his blog focuses on ways to teach appreciation and understanding of musical works for their full intrinsic and aesthetic value.
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Pinterest Page - Toni JoveThis is not a blog, but one of our own Fulton colleagues was gracious enough to share her personal Pinterest Board which contains a large collection of music games, Orff arrangements, drumming ideas, recorder ideas, movement ideas, and links to lesson ideas as well!
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