SupportMusic Merit Award survey

This survey is an opportunity for an individual school to be acknowledged for its commitment to music education, and as such, to be selected for the SupportMusic Merit Award. It is a 'school-only' distinction awarded as part of the Best Communities for Music Education survey.

The NAMM Foundation seeks to celebrate and recognize innovative and resourceful music education programs in the United States and those schools and communities that support them. This comprehensive survey requests information that reveals statistical and factual information about music education and related opportunities for students to learn music. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey and tell us about your music programs.

This survey is an opportunity for an individual school to be acknowledged for its commitment to music education, and as such, to be selected for the SupportMusic Merit Award. It is a 'school-only' distinction awarded as part of the Best Communities for Music Education survey. This award is NOT for a community of multiple schools or buildings, but for a single school and can be used by charter, private, parochial, and/or individual schools seeking this designation.

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When a child learns music it is much more than notes and scales; they discover themselves...it challenges you with creativity and demands self-discipline. It takes commitment and teamwork.

- Student, Age 20, Van Nuys, CA

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Early Childhood is critical time to support children's natural desire to sing, move and play with sound. Furthermore, research shows that music and music experiences support the formation of important brain connections that are being established over the first three years of life (Carlton, 2000).

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