K–12 Educators Grants in American Music

The K-12 Educators Grants in American Music provides awards of $500 to K-12 educators and music educators who have a special interest in American music to attend special events as part of the 2026 Teaching Music History Conference in New York, NY from June 5-7, 2026. Grantees will also receive complimentary registration for the conference. The Teaching Music History Conference, hosted by the AMS Pedagogy Study Group, brings together people who are interested in teaching and learning about music history, presenting special opportunities to connect educators, researchers, and members of the public invested in music education across all grade levels. The 2026 conference will place particular emphasis on children's music, welcoming interdisciplinary topics on music pedagogy and other perspectives related to childhood and youth studies. The purpose of the grants is to support educator participation in AMS programming that engages with historical pedagogy and American musical traditions. Grant recipients will participate in relevant activities at the conference as part of a cohort of fifteen. Grantees will be expected to attend featured lectures and programs at the conference, as well as a 45-minute networking cohort session on each of the first two days designed to help them network and connect to current conversations in musicology and music education.