NEW REPORT: "A Blueprint for Strengthening the Music Teacher Profession” outlines actions to ensure the music teacher profession is diversified, to keep music educators in the profession, & recruit more music educators: bit.ly/NAfMEMTPI #MoreTeachersMoreMusic

Nominate yourself, a friend or colleague for a Women in Government Relations 2023 Excellence in Advocacy Award! Nominations close June 30. wgr.org/page/Excellenc… #advocacy #womenleaders

Thank you to Americans for the Arts CEO Nolan Bivens and The NAMM Foundation Executive Director Mary Luehrsen for joining today’s NAfME panel discussion on #ArtsEducation and the Creative Economy: Advocating for Impact. #musiceducation

YOUR VOICE MATTERS! In support of this week's #NAfMEHillDay send an electronic letter to your elected officials to fully fund federal programs and advance critical legislation impacting #MusicEducation. Find a ready-made template, here: bit.ly/NAfMEHillDaySu…

Thank you to all the state and national NAfME leaders who gathered to discuss critical issues facing the profession and visit Capitol Hill for #NAfMEHillDay to advocate for the importance of #MusicEducation. Together, we are NAfME! vimeo.com/839344859

"Dire warnings of teacher shortages are nothing new, especially during the pandemic, and are sometimes overblown. But a confluence of warning signs suggest that the country is at a post-pandemic inflection point." chalkbeat.org/2023/6/27/2377…

NAfME President Scott R. Sheehan & NCMEA President Johnathan Hamiel to present “Advocacy Beyond the Pandemic: Getting the Job Done at the National, State, and Local Levels” December 22 at the @MidwestClinic midwestclinic.org/2023_clinician… #MidwestClinic

"A Blueprint for Strengthening the Music Teacher Profession” report outlines actions to ensure the music teacher profession is diversified, to keep music educators in the profession, & recruit more music educators: bit.ly/NAfMEMTPI #MoreTeachersMoreMusic

"A Blueprint for Strengthening the Music Teacher Profession” report outlines actions to ensure the music teacher profession is diversified, to keep music educators in the profession, & recruit more music educators: bit.ly/NAfMEMTPI #MoreTeachersMoreMusic

Thank you U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Markwayne Mullin and John Kennedy for meeting with nafme Amanda Karhuse during #CEFHillDay to discuss the importance of funding education! #Time4EdFunding Cmte for Ed Funding

The FY24 Department of Ed budget slashes funding below the 2006 level. Titles I and II along with several key programs supporting music education face elimination or drastic cuts. Learn more and urge your members of Congress to support education funding! bit.ly/SupportMusicEd…

Keep sending messages to Congress to ensure education programs are funded! bit.ly/SupportMusicEd… The FY24 Department of Ed budget slashes funding below the 2006 level. Titles I and II along with several key programs supporting music education face elimination or drastic cuts!

Today Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, reintroduced the Preparing and Retaining Education Professionals (PREP) Act. NAfME is a proud supporter of this legislation ow.ly/Ych050PgtXy

The FY24 Department of Ed budget slashes funding below the 2006 level. Titles I and II along with several key programs supporting music education face elimination or drastic cuts. Keep sending your letters to Congress urging support for education funding! bit.ly/SupportMusicEd…

Thank you to the more than 980 music education advocates who contacted their members of Congress in support of FY 2024 funding! Help us reach 1,000 TODAY! nafme.org/advocacy/grass… #musiceducation #edfunding #equity #advocacy

Congratulations to Alabama, Missouri, and North Carolina Music Educators Associations on receiving the 2023 CMA Foundation State Advocacy Award grants! ow.ly/cw6e50Prqk6 CMA Foundation AL Music Educators MOMEA NCMEA

New advocacy blog: NAfME is proud to support several bills that seek to address the teacher retention issue from multiple avenues. Read: “PREP, RETAIN, and SPROUT: NAfME Supports Three Bills that Would Encourage Teacher Recruitment and Retention” ow.ly/vuXT50PtiKb

In Atlanta Journal-Constitution Karen Salvador, author of the NAfME report on Divisive Concepts Laws and Music Education, shared that teachers “feel like either they have to sanitize what they’re teaching or they just can’t teach it at all.” Read more: ow.ly/PY8n50PtiON (subscription required)

This year’s Hill Day event was an exciting return to Washington, DC, culminating in a Capitol Hill sing along! Read more here about the day and how you can keep the momentum going: ow.ly/Jm1w50Puuc2 #NAfMEHillDay