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Cash Grants Offered for Teachers Who Use American Music

Orlando, FL, April 27, 2005. For the seventh year, the National Music Foundation will award cash grants of up to one thousand dollars to teacherswho create lesson plans using American music. The grants are awarded through the Foundation's American Music Education Initiative (AMEI).

Teachers whose lesson plans are selected by the Foundation's panel of judges will also receive the Lois Bailey Glenn Award for Teaching Excellence. The Awards honor the memory of Lois Bailey Glenn, a dedicated elementary school teacher from Halifax, Virginia, whose career spanned more than thirty years.

The AMEI is a program designed to recognize and support teachers who use American music in their classrooms. It is open to teachers of any subject, in any grade K-12, and in any academic setting. It includes a competition for teachers, which rewards and acknowledges teachers who create outstanding lesson plans that use American music and an on-line database of lesson plans that use American music, containing the competition's winning plans.

Lesson plans for any grade (K-12), and in any subject, are eligible if they use American music. The plans are reviewed and evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges, who make awards at three levels: Finalist, Semi-finalist and Honorable Mention. Finalist teachers receive grants of $1,000; semi-finalist teachers receive grants of $500. All award-winning lesson plans are published in an on-line database (www.usamusic.org), where they are available for free to other teachers. Applications and guidelines are available on the Foundation's web site or by contacting the Foundation at AMEI@usamusic.org. Completed applications must be received at the Foundation's office (2457A South Hiawassee Road, #244, Orlando, Florida 32835) by Monday, September 19, 2005 to be considered. E-mail submissions are encouraged.

For further information contact Thomas J. Heany, Director of Programming, at 1-800-USA-MUSIC or tom@usamusic.org.

N. Raymond Day, from A Day's Work, will present "WHAT'S THAT?!? -- Exploring Adaptive Devices for Use in Music Therapy Situations" at the American Music Therapy Association annual Conference in Orlando, FL, November 18 at 2:30 p.m. The Conference is entitled, "Experience the Power of Music Therapy" and the dates are November 16-21,

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