Nebraska Coalition for Music Education

Waverly Public Schools

NCME's "What We Do" Brochure. . . .

"This Is
What
We Do"

The Value of Music Education

Music education provides an opportunity to develop:

social skills - daily group interaction/rehearsals

a work ethic - setting a performance goal

problem solving skills - developing methods and practice techniques to reach a goal

motor skills - hand-eye coordination and psychomotor skills

leadership skills - students acting as section leaders and group officers

reading skills - daily sight reading practice

creativity - music interpretation, improvisation, and composition

a sense of responsibility to self and others - fulfilling assigned expectations of teachers and peers

math skills - complex time signatures and rhythms

self-motivation - level of success relates to amount of effort

self-esteem - reaching a set performance goal

concentration skills - focusing on the task at hand

Music Education
is much more
than
recitals,
concerts,
pep bands,
and
parades!

Without music in the school curriculum, children are denied something that can greatly enrich their lives. Music is vital to their education for its aesthetic, historical, and cultural value. To realize these benefits means going beyond using the arts merely for exposure or enrichment. Education in music means regular, sequential engagement with the discipline of music as a body of knowledge and skills to be acquired and applied by students for a lifetime.

Children who participate in music are also aided in coordination, goal-setting, concentration, self-expression, and cooperation.

Through music experiences, children can become better listeners and can develop musical intelligence. They also develop pride and a sense of accomplishment as young musicians.

Quote from pianist Van Cliburn. . .

"Music helps improve discipline and concentration, and it develops a sense of spiritual consciousness."

Want a copy of the "What We Do" brochure?

jreist1@unl.edu

OR request one from:

NCME
801 Driftwood Drive
Lincoln NE 68510-4318

This could happen.

Right now, forces are at work to eliminate or severely reduce music education in our schools.

No music education equals music for only a privileged few.

Music for only a privileged few equals an impoverished society.

The Nebraska

Coalition for Music Education

was created to

Support Music for Every Child

We believe that music programs should be part of the academic core of essential skills and available to all students, not just those who are gifted or privileged. And that music study promotes cultural awareness, enhances the quality of our lives, and is essential to the survival of any civilization. Besides the obvious pleasure music adds to our lives, recent research shows participation in music study uniquely enhances abstract reasoning and problem solving skills. Music education aids development of reading and language skills as it promotes higher self-esteem and improves psychomotor skills and athletic ability.

Won't You Join Us?

Speak to your school administrators, state and local government representatives and tell them how important music education is to our future. Support a comprehensive music program for all students in all grades. For more information, contact Joan Reist,
Nebraska Coalition for Music Education, 402.488.0718, or

jreist1@unl.edu

Want a copy of the "Imagine life without music" brochure?

jreist1@unl.edu

OR request one from:

NCME
801 Driftwood Drive
Lincoln NE 68510-4318

R E S O U R C E S. . .

Brochures

Videos

Other Items

The Nebraska Coalition for Music Education (NCME) is willing to provide you with resources for your advocacy efforts in your community. Not only are these resources available for purchase through MENC - The National Association for Music Education - but those marked with an asterisk (**), are available on loan from NCME by contacting Joan Reist, Chair, NCME.

jreist1@unl.edu

Or by mail. . .

Joan Reist
801 Driftwood Drive
Lincoln, NE 68510
Phone: 402.488.0718

BROCHURES. . . . .

Discover the Power of Music Education

This brochure is available (in quantities) by contacting

Dietze Music
1208 O Street
LIncoln NE 68508
402.476.6644
Ask for Keith Heckman

**This Is What We Do
This brochure was developed by the Nebraska Coalition for Music Education for use by music educators to promote music education in your school or community by sharing it with parents, distributing it to community leaders and discussing it with your school administrators. Go to brochure.

**Imagine Life Without Music

This leaflet was developed by the Nebraska Coalition for Music Education (NCME) to be distributed to community members by inserting the information in your concert programs. During the 1997-98 performance season, the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, inserted this leaflet in selected concerts throughout their season. Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus allowed NCME to place an easel in their lobby with this leaflet available for the taking. Go to leaflet.

**Music Makes the Difference

Aimed at a general audience, this brochure describes music's place in education and the need to build support for music education and the need to build support for music education programs. 1991. ISBN 1-56545-055-8. #4005 (pack of 20). $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**Music Education and Your Child

Brochure designed especially for parents, offering helpful tips on how they can make their child's music study experience more successful and rewarding. 1991. ISBN 1-56545-056-6. #4004 (pack of 20). $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**America's Culture Begins with Education

Chief executive officers of eight major companies share their personal and corporate commitment to music and the other arts. A useful tool for informing school board members, legislators, administrators, parents, and others about the importance of music and the other arts in education. 1990. 16 pages. ISBN 0-940796-82-1. #4002 (pack of 10). $9.00/$7.20 MENC members

**Growing Up Complete: The Imperative for Music Education --- An Executive Summary

Provides a brief summary of the points outlined in Growing Up Complete: The Imperative for Music Education. Designed to hand out as information brochures. 1991. ISBN 1-56545-057-4. #4006 (pack of 20). $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

Implementing the Arts Education Standards (brochure series)

Addresses the concerns of specific groups as they work for arts education and for the standards.
**What School Boards Can Do - Pack of 20. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-058-2. #4017. $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**What School Administrators Can Do - Pack of 20. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-059-0. #4018. $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**What State Education Agencies Can Do - Pack of 20. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-060-4. #4019. $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**What Parents Can Do - Pack of 20. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-061-2. #4020. $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

**What the Arts Community Can Do - Pack of 20. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-062-0. #4021. $7.75/$6.20 MENC members

[Note: The five brochures are also available as a set of one each. 1994. ISBN 1-56545-101-5. #4022. $6.75/$5.40 MENC members]

PLEASE NOTE: If you order materials from MENC, please consult the PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE for postage rates or call toll-free at 1.800.828.0229. Orders under $50 must be postpaid.

VIDEOS. . . . .

**Let's Make Music/A Way of Learning
In the first section of this two-part video, arranger/composer/conductor Henry Mancini addresses a general audience as he describes the dangerous omission of music and the other arts in education. In the next section, noted music educator and clinician, "Dr. Tim" Lautzenheiser, informs parents that music study can make a difference in children's lives, and that music fosters and reinforces many important aspects of development. 1991. VHS. 18 minutes. ISBN 1-56545-072-8. #3031. $18.25/$14.60 MENC members

**School Music and "Reverse Economics"

Dr. John Benham has saved school music from severe budget cuts in 19 states over the last ten years. Using his theory of reverse economics, he demonstrates that money is not saved by cutting music programs. 1991. VHS. 14 minutes. ISBN 1-56545-073-6. #3033. $18.25/$14.60 MENC members

**Something to Aim For

. . . . explains the importance of the National Music Education Standards; features Charles Osgood and Education Secretary Richard Riley; also includes a set of celebrity public service announcements in support of music education. VHS. 1994. Approximately 30 minutes. ISBN 1-56545-068-X. #3005. $24.75/$19.80 MENC members

**Saving the Arts

This 60-minute video, is one of eight, one-hour videos that comprise The Merrow Report for 1993-94. In this video John Merrow, a former teacher in high school, college and federal prisons before working as a reporter and correspondent for the "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" and National Public Radio, interview practicing music teachers and principals in diverse settings - a small New England school, a New York inner city school - just to name two.

**Music for Every Child --- Every Child for Music

. . . was produced by the Nebraska Educational Television Network in 1997. In this 30-minute video, Dr. Marilyn Moore, Associate Superintendent for Instruction in the Lincoln Public Schools, Dr. Myron Ballain, Superintendent of the Auburn Public Schools, and Dr. Glenn Nierman, Professor & Chair of Music Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discuss the issues and trends surrounding music education in nebraska schools and how Nebraska music education programs reflect or, in some cases, counter, national trends.

**Music and the Brain (Yamaha)

This 9-minute video is a compilation of many of the television newscasts such as The today Show and World News Tonight which highlights research studies that are proving the importance of music to a child's development. From increased learning capabilities in both math and verbal skills to higher esteem and improved self worth, music education, for even a short time in a child's life, is instrumental to his/her overall lifetime success.

**Music Education Advocate's Toolkit

This kit is designed to assist you in becoming an effective music advocate for children in your area. It contains tools you need to bring parents, teachers, administrators, and local officials to a common understanding of music education's essential role, and will help you encourage them to support a full, balanced, sequential course of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. Includes: an Advocacy How-To Guide with suggestions for handouts and tips for presentations; a CD-ROM (Mac/PC-compatible) with a complete school board presentation in PowerPoint, and "Music and the Mind," a VHS video featuring educators, scientists, journalists, and others discussing the benefits of music education to the development of the brain. #1026. $35.00/$28.00 MENC members

Music Education — A Basic Education

FREE — This video is about music advocacy and comes with a resource kit. You can obtain this video FREE by calling 1.800.332.2637.

PLEASE NOTE: If you order materials from MENC, please consult the PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE for postage rates or call toll-free at 1.800.828.0229. Orders under $50 must be postpaid.

OTHER ITEMS. . . . .

**Growing Up Complete: The Imperative for Music Education

The National Commission on Music Education's 1991 report to Congress and the Administration. . . based on the principle that music and the other arts have intrinsic value and are essential for a comprehensive, well-balanced education. 1991. 76 pages. ISBN 0-949796-89-9. #1018. $10.50/$8.40 MENC members

**America's Culture Begins with Education

Chief executive officers of eight major companies share their personal and corporate commitment to music and the other arts. A useful tool for informing school board members, legislators, administrators, parents, and others about the importance of music and the other arts in education. 1990. 16 pages. ISBN 0-940796-82-1. #4002 (pack of 10). $9.00/$7.20 MENC members

**MUSIC FOR A SOUND EDUCATION: A Tool Kit for Implementing the Standards - Bring advocacy and the National Music Education Standards together with Music for a Sound Education: A Tool Kit for Implementing the Standards. The Tool Kit, created by the National Coalition for Music Education, contains essential resources for everyone interested in the fight to provide all children with a rigorous, standards-influenced curriculum in music. It includes the following (prices given are for items that are available separately):

**Promoting and Implementing the Standards: A How-to Guide

. . . presents the goals of the campaign along with a concise look at using the kit - getting organized, getting the facts, analyzing the situation, planning, and acting. Also includes directions for making media contacts, sample press releases, a sample speech, and more. 1994. 32 pages.

**Something to Aim For (video)

[This is explained earlier on this page.]

**WHITE PAPERS - Use these pieces for addressing the concerns of different audiences.

**Fighting the Good Fight - Designed to spur music educators into action. ISBN 1-56545-063-9. (Also available separately in packs of 10.) #4012. $6.75/$5.40 MENC members

**Arts Standards Q & A - A paper designed for general audiences that answers some of the most common questions posed about the standards. ISBN 1-56545-074-4. (Also available separately in packs of 10.) #4016. $6.75/$5.40 MENC members

**Setting the Record Straight --- Give and Take on the National Standards for Arts Education - A thoughtful look at some of the main questions that face decision makers in implementing the standards. ISBN 1-56545-065-5. (Also available separately.) #1608. $1.50/$1.20 MENC members

**The National Standards: Moving from Vision to Reality - A thought-provoking paper in which Paul Lehman sets forth some of the implementation issues important to music educators. ISBN 1-56545-064-7. (Also available separately in packs of 10.) #1606. $6.75/$5.40 MENC members

PLEASE NOTE: If you order materials from MENC, please consult the PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE for postage rates or call toll-free at 1.800.828.0229. Orders under $50 must be postpaid.

Want to DONATE to NCME? . . .

DONATIONS can be made to the Nebraska Coalition for Music Education by clicking here and printing off the form and mailing it to NCME.