Why
Music is Important
Articles reprinted with permission of
the Texas Music Educators Association; Macmillan/McGraw Hill; Educational
Leadership, the official publication of the Association for
Supervision & Curriculum Development; and Phi
Delta Kappan, the official publication of Phi Delta Kappa, the
professional fraternity in education.
What
is Excellence in Music?
The
Texas School Music Program, Description & Standards has been
endorsed by the Texas Music Administrators Conference as proposed by the
following members of the Standards Committee:
Craig
Welle,
Spring Branch ISD
Committee Chair
Mollie
Tower, Austin, Texas
Elementary
and Vocal Chair
Tom
Waggoner, Austin ISD
Instrumental
Chair
Bob
Copeland, Arlington
ISD
Joe
Edmonson, Edinburg
Consolidated ISD
Geraldine
Kidwell, Amarillo
ISD
Paul
Mann, McAllen ISD
Grace
Osadchuk, Midland
ISD
David
Pennington, Temple
ISD
Jan
Schronk,
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Ron
Wells, Northeast ISD
The Document was revised in 1999 by Craig
Welle, Spring Branch ISD; Mollie
Tower, Austin, Texas; Larry
Tucker, Plano ISD; Ron Wells,
Northeast ISD.
Two publications served as primary resources in the preparation
of this document:
The format and much of the text used in
the recommendations and the Preface
are taken by permission from The
School Music Program: Description and Standards, 2nd Edition Ó1986,
published by Music Educators National Conference, 1806 Robert Fulton Dr., Reston,
Virginia, 20191.
The entire facilities section of this
document comes directly from Music
Framework Kindergarten-Grade 12 published by Texas Education Agency, 1701 North Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas,
78701-1494.
The TMAC Committee on Standards
gratefully acknowledges these two publications and the educators who
produced them. This document would not have been possible without their
guidance. The TMAC
Committee recommends that these two publications be consulted as
references by anyone using The Texas School Music Program as
a guide in their school or district.
The Texas School Music Program is not
copyrighted; any or all sections may be duplicated.
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