Scheduling

If you are looking for recommendations in scheduling your instrumental music program, click here to go to the VH1 Save the Music Foundation Principal‘s Guide. If you are facing challenges in scheduling your music program, these articles discuss the issues and many solutions in scheduling:

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 4 of a series Scheduling Myths & the Grades 9-10 "Bottleneck

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform movement: Part 3 of a series Scheduling & The Traditional Six-Day Period

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform: Part 2 of a series Scheduling

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 6 of a series Rotating Schedules

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 5 of a series Two Options for 7-Period Scheduling

Articles on Block Scheduling

• MENC: Block Scheduling Resources

• Case Study: "Block Schedule – The Perils“

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 9 of a series Three Perspectives on Block Scheduling

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 8 of a series Two Options for Four-Period Block Scheduling

• Focus on Issues & Decision Making: Educational Reform Movements: Part 7 of a series Block Scheduling and the Music Student

Pull-Out Method Many elementary music teachers face challenges in scheduling pull-out lessons. Other subject teachers may not want their students to miss class time. This is a common challenge. Fortunately, there is research that indicates that students who leave class for music lessons do just as well or better on standardized tests than their non-participating peers. Click here to read a study from the Journal of Research in Music Education on this topic. No Child Left Behind – Arts as a Core Subject Music is a core subject under No Child Left Behind. The following letter, written by Rod Paige, former US Deputy Secretary of Education to school superintendents, affirms this fact and supports the arts as an essential part of every child’s education.