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Songs For Teaching™ is an online store/community selling children's educational music recordings and resources. They have been pioneers in promoting learning and literacy using music as a tool. They have been partnering with music educators, and have had a strong web presence since 2002.

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Much research exists to suggest that music is an effective tool for promoting literacy and learning. In 2002, Ruth Harris started Songs For Teaching™ as part of her passion for promoting literacy via music. Songs For Teaching™ evaluated hundreds of music artists, and selected over 300 artists to promote. Utilizing their research, they generated thousands of web pages worth of categorization and site suggestions for educators to peruse. It quickly grew to becoming the top site on search engines. They have grown to over 800,000 Facebook fans and 21,000 Instagram followers.

In 2014, Songs For Teaching™ was bought by Alice and David Burba. They continue to have strong partnership with children's musicians world wide, thus providing a source of revenue in a market which has seen sharp decline is sales due to music listening habits. Songs For Teaching™ is Silver business sponsor and Board Member of The Children's Music Network.