ARRA Opportunities

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

The overall goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are to stimulate the economy and invest in education and other essential public services. Your music program can use stimulus funds for professional development and curricular support and materials like technology and software that supports assessment of student learning, instruments, and other supplies.

In July, 2009, the U.S. Department of Education published a guide to help educators appropriately use funding awarded by the ARRA. Find out how SmartMusic meets these guidelines.

Why SmartMusic

In a time of evolving assessment standards and accountability requirements, SmartMusic offers solutions. SmartMusic is one of the fastest growing music education tools because of its ability to make learning music fun for students, and document results for educators. Subscribe to SmartMusic and show your administrators the impact your music program can have in a student’s life.

Getting Started with SmartMusic

SmartMusic Educator Subscription: Includes free software updates for 1 year, access to the library of music titles, and web-based Gradebook – $130/year.

District Pricing: Need 100 or more subscriptions for you and your students? Find out more about our volume pricing.

Finale Academic Pricing Options

Get equipped with the industry’s leading notation software. Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed music learning software for band, orchestra, and voice. Discover hundreds of ready-made, educator-approved, customizable worksheets as well as many more educator tools.

Finale Academic/Theological Version	$350	Download order form and fax order. Call 866-240-4041 to order.
Finale Lab Pack (5 installations)	$850	Fax purchase order to 952-937-9760. Call 866-240-4041 to order.
Finale Site License (pricing is per station)	10-29 seats: $145/seat 30 + seats: $130/seat	Fax purchase order to 952-937-9760. Call 866-240-4041 to order or for a price quote.

These products are intended exclusively for the use of qualified faculty, students, and music ministers. More.

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Professional Development

MakeMusic now offers on-site, hands-on training for SmartMusic and Finale. Work in content areas is always customized to the specific teaching areas of the educators in attendance.

Best of all, each training session is provided by a veteran music educator who has used SmartMusic in the classroom. The training is teacher-to-teacher, based on real experiences working with real students, parents, and administrators. All-inclusive training is $1,000 per day. For more details contact: smartbuy@makemusic.com

ARRA Funding by District

Review the funding allocated to your district and begin making your plans to become a SmartMusic school.