Other Resources
More links to local groups, events, & resources
Local Community Ensembles
Other Local Events
Summer Camps for Directors & Students
- Birch Bay String Teachers' Workshop
- Lake Samish Music Camp in Bellingham, WA
- WSU Cougar String Camp in Pullman, WA
Advocacy:
- A Musical Fix For American Schools from the Wall Street Journal
- Why Music Education Actually Matters
- Music is the key to success from The New York Times
- Using Music to Close the Academic Gap from The Atlantic Monthly
- Two years of music study improves reading & speech from Education News
- This is your brain. This is your brain on music. from National Public Radio
- Music Education and the Brain from Dr. Anita Collins (video)
- How playing an instrument benefits your brain from TED.com (great video too)
- Music Education and closing the achievement gap from Huffington Post
- Music ed isn't a luxury. from the Australian Association for Research in Education
- A Tim Lautzenheiser speaks about Music Education from Conn-Selmer
- Borrowing a Literacy Strategy from Band Class from Edutopia
- HS students do better in science, math, & english if they also take music lessons from Forbes Magazine
- Arts education boosts students’ writing scores from Houston, TX
- 9 Benefits of Music Lessons from Edvocate
- Music lessons and scientific studies from mic.com
- Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results from The Wall Street Journal
- Benefits of Music, PE, & Arts programs in schools from US News & World Report
- Evidence that learning an instrument improves test scores
- Music and the link to higher test scores
- Music and it's impact on student development
- Why playing an instrument in science from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Everything I need to know I learned in Music from CNN.com
- Young scientists must be taught music and the arts from the president of Cornell University
- Benefits of Arts Education links from the League of American Orchestras
- The Importance of Music Education in Schools (CNN article)
- Moving to the rhythm can help language skills (BBC News article)
- Jack Stamp - Why Music Matters (YouTube video)
- Jason Mraz on Music Education (YouTube video)
- Advocacy Resources Webpage from WMEA
- Famous people talk about why music matters Radio PSA's from WMEA