Grading for Musical Excellence

Making Music an Essential Part of Your Grades

Grading for Musical Excellence, cover The Podium Series
By Paul Kimpton and Ann Kimpton
$24.95

Music educators face ever-growing pressures to expand grading in the classroom that promotes and measures a student’s intellectual, emotional, and musical growth. Adventures With Music, Inc. offers valuable assistance through
Grading for Musical Excellence: Making Music an Essential Part of Your Grades. The authors of this book include a music educator who implemented the grading system described and a secondary administrator who worked closely with music teachers.

With this valuable resource, teachers can apply the material directly to their teaching and evaluation practices and begin to see the results in student skill development and growth. By following the steps outlined in this book, a district can adapt these ideas to their particular schools and communities without having to “start from scratch.” Other uses of Grading for Musical Excellence in a K-16 setting may include how to:
• Implement a Grading Program Based on Best Practices
• Change a Toxic Grading Culture
• Write Specific Learning Targets
• Teach Students How to Write Specific Goals
• Use Data to Adjust Instruction
• Motivate Students
• Use Grades to Provide Feedback to Students
• Use Student Feedback to Improve Instruction
• Create a Culture of Learning
• Manage Time Effectively
• Develop Student Accountability

Contact us today for information on how our book provides valuable feedback for schools and students. We proudly serve customers throughout the United States and Canada.

About the Authors

• Paul Kimpton

A music educator for 33 years, Paul Kimpton has authored some of the most influential books in music education. He is a valued clinician on music curriculum, assessment, teaching methods, grading, and conducting throughout the United States and Canada. He has served on the advisory board of the Illinois High School Association and received the Outstanding Music Educator Award from the National Federation of High Schools. In addition to a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Music Education, Kimpton has certifications in guidance and counseling and school administration. Most recently, he is a contributing author to The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education.

• Ann Kaczkowski Kimpton

Ann Kaczkowski Kimpton has been an assistant principal for curriculum and instruction, a department chair for literacy, and teacher. She has co-authored several books on music education with her husband, Paul, and written four novels for the Adventures with Music series where musicians are the heroes. She has given numerous presentations and workshops at the local, state, and national levels on curriculum writing for music education, literacy and its connection to music. Additionally, she is a French horn player and color guard specialist.