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2023 NAMM Show Best Tools for Schools Winners!
Gillian Desmarais | July 16, 2023With over 46,000 attendees from 120 countries, this year’s NAMM show was a sonic circus for developers, performers, educators, artisans, merchants, influencers, and enthusiasts alike. As I weaved through the crowded exhibit halls, I saw elaborately decorated booths, crowded impromptu performances and hundreds of lively conversations. From beginning to end, I was captivated — especially […] Read More... -
Best Tools for Schools at NAMM 2022
Gillian Desmarais | August 2, 2022SBO Magazine was proud to award a new series of music education products at this year’s 2022 NAMM show in Anaheim, California. With last year’s conference online, it was great to walk through the noisy exhibit hall again and feel a new sense of community resonating around us. We had a select team of educators […] Read More... -
2021 Best Tools for Schools Awards
George Hess | March 6, 2021Each year, SBO Magazine presents awards for the best new music education products at the NAMM show in Anaheim. This year the NAMM show was held online, but that didn't prevent our intrepid team, including Dr. George Hess, Priscilla Shaw, Courtney Powers, and Steve Giddings, from finding the best tools for you. Read More... -
2020 Best Tools for Schools Awards
Mike Lawson | March 3, 2020
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The winter NAMM show was held this year in January at the Anaheim Convention Center. The show is a chance for vendors to show off their current lineup, and it features a dazzling array of just about every music-related product that you can imagine, and even some you can’t. There are countless performances and presentations at the various booths and some great concerts in the evening. It’s just a great experience. -
2019 Best Tools for Schools Award Recipients
Mike Lawson | March 1, 2019
The winter NAMM show held each year at the Anaheim Convention Center is the premier event for the music industry.
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SBO Presents the 2017 Recipients of the Best Tools for Schools Award
Mike Lawson | March 20, 2017
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SBO Presents the 2016 Recipients of the Best Tools for Schools Award at NAMM
Mike Lawson | November 29, 2016
The annual SBO Best Tools for Schools awards were presented at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, on January 25. The panel of music educator jurists who selected the companies and finalized their decision during their spirited evaluation process selected these fine products as the best in show to make your job teaching music easier, innovative, and fun.
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MAC Corner: Living The L.I.F.E. With Your Administrators
Mike Lawson | October 22, 2015
Greetings! On behalf of the Music Achievement Council, we hope your school year is off to a wonderful start! Here are some ideas about working with your administrator. These ideas are based on one of the best administrators I have ever worked with!
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Springtime School Budget Season – The Most Complicated Time of the Year
Mike Lawson | July 24, 2015
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As a music education advocate and strategist, I find the spring school budget season my most worrisome time of the year, because this is when districts lay out budget proposals for the next school year (my next most worrisome season is late summer when districts that have discretion to adjust expenses sometimes reduce funding to music education programs). Since it is now officially summer, we are almost out of the woods in terms of the preparation, review, and voting that occurs on school budgets for the upcoming school year. -
JamHub to Award Grants to Qualifying Schools in 2015
Mike Lawson | June 4, 2015
Qualifying U.S. schools will be able to apply for grants through June 19, 2015, as well as September 14th through October 16th, 2015.
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Educators Highlight the Best Teaching Tools from the Winter NAMM Show
Mike Lawson | February 19, 2015
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Countless musical instruments, accessories, and related products are announced and shown each year at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. For the fifth consecutive year, our team of music educators scoured exhibits at NAMM looking for the best products for music classroom use in an array of different categories and met to deliberate and bring you the 2015 Best Tools for Schools from the Winter NAMM Show. -
2014 Best Tools for Schools
Mike Lawson | January 27, 2014Educators Highlight the Best Teaching Tools from the 2014 Winter NAMM Show
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The annual Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim California is the place where hundreds of thousands of musical instruments, accessories, and related products are debuted to industry insiders. For the fourth consecutive year, educators at the music products convention combed the exhibit halls looking for the best products for classroom use in an array of different categories. Using an online voting process at sbomagazine.com and hard-copy ballots from attendees, music teachers made their selections, which culminated in a presentation of the 2014 Best Tools for Schools from the Winter NAMM Show.
