You found Prodigies and your students love it. Now you need to convince a principal, survive the business office, and maybe a district form or two. This page is your ammunition, standards proof, a scope & sequence, a ready-to-send proposal, and a quote your school can act on. All of it self-serve, most of it printable.
Prodigies PK-5 is mapped to music standards in all 50 states plus DC, 43 with a dedicated crosswalk to the state's own framework, and the rest via the National Core Arts Standards their state has adopted. Pick your state:
The full report shows every standard in your state's framework and which Prodigies lessons teach it. It lives inside the portal, free account, no purchase needed.
Seven grades (PK–5), 36 weeks each, 252 lessons, concept-based musical literacy with color-coded notation, solfège, rhythm reading, and instrument play. The scope & sequence is the document teachers most often ask us for “to show my administrator.”
The Kodály & Orff crosswalk translates our sequence into the rhythm-syllable ladder, solfège progression, and Orff process vocabulary, including an honest note on where we differ and why.
A one-page ask your principal can approve on the spot. Click into the letter and edit it, the highlighted fields are yours to fill, then copy it into an email or print it.
Dear [Principal's name],
I'd like to request approval to purchase the Prodigies PK-5 music curriculum for my classroom, a one-year teacher license is $295.
Prodigies teaches real musical literacy: students read notation, sing solfège, and play instruments from the very first lessons. Its color-coded notes and scrolling sheet music are remarkable for young learners and for students with special needs, my students can play and sing accurately far earlier than with traditional methods, and it shows in their confidence.
It aligns to [our state]'s music standards (alignment report attached), comes with a full PK-5 scope and sequence, 252 video-led lessons across 36 weeks per grade, and is designed so that classrooms without a certified music specialist can still deliver excellent music instruction.
By winter, students can perform for families, schools using Prodigies regularly have kindergartners playing real songs on desk bells at concerts and graduations.
At $295 it fits within supply-level budgets, and the vendor turns quotes, W-9s, and any purchasing paperwork around same-day. I've attached a quote for [number] license(s)[ and desk bell sets].
Thank you for considering it. I'd love to show you a lesson in action.
[Your name]
Quotes go out same day with our W-9 attached, are valid for 60 days, and can be dated to activate on a future date (like July 1) so you can buy from this year's budget and start next year. This form opens a pre-written email in your mail app, nothing is sent until you hit send.
Why we insist on the teacher's name and email: the license is activated for that teacher the moment the PO arrives. Orders that arrive without it are the single most common cause of delay.
Once your principal says yes, your school's bookkeeper or purchasing secretary takes over, send them our Business Office page. It has the W-9, tax status, sole-source letter, vendor-form instructions, and exactly what to put on the PO. If your district's IT or privacy team needs to vet us, send them the reviewer page, short version: no student sign-in, no roster access, first-name-only student data.