Get to know the candidates for the Eastern, Northwest, and Southwestern Divisions Presidents-Elect. Voting opens on January 10, and closes on February 9, 2023. Ensure your membership is current so you receive a ballot January 10.
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NAfME SOCIETY FOR MUSIC TEACHER EDUCATION
The 2023 NAfME Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium will take place October 12–14, 2023, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Call for proposals will be available in January 2023. More details will be available in the coming weeks here.
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THE MIDWEST CLINIC
Collegiates: Connect with NAfME President Scott R. Sheehan; NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council Chair Susan L. Smith; and NAfME Assistant Executive Director for Advocacy and Public Policy Amanda Karhuse at the 30th Annual College Night at the Midwest Clinic! This event—free and open to the public—takes place Tuesday, December 20, 5:30–7PM. Learn more about music degree programs at the nation's leading colleges, universities, and branches of the United States military. Come at 5:15 to meet your NAfME leaders ahead of the event!
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This March 2023 will mark the 38th annual Music In Our Schools Month® (MIOSM®). New resources—including lesson plans, concert program inserts, sample resolutions and proclamations to ask local/state elected officials to issue, and more—are now available, with more to come. See below in this newsletter for links to resources.
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Now available for free download: “Using Responding, Performing, Creating, and Connecting to Inspire Personal Creating and Preserving: Band, Advanced Level.” This curriculum unit includes Library of Congress and research links, assessments, four lessons with handouts and rubrics, and more. Thirty-seven curriculum units created with the Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources program are now available for ensembles of various sizes, harmonizing instruments, music theory/composition, band, chorus, orchestra, and general music from kindergarten through high school.
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THE MIDWEST CLINIC
NAfME President Scott R. Sheehan and NAfME Assistant Executive Director for Advocacy and Public Policy Amanda Karhuse will be at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago this month. If you are attending, be sure to connect and learn more about NAfME!
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NAfME members: Save 30% on any co-published title with promo code 6F22NAFME. Our books are also available as ebooks. Take a look at the digital catalog and view the complete list of NAfME titles. Interested in publishing a book? Click here.
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Nominations for the 2024 Music Educator Award are open for both teachers, students, and the public to nominate a music educator who inspires them. Nominations are due March 15, 2023, and applications are due March 30, 2023.
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Check out these ideas from chapters around the country for service projects as you plan your second semester activities. And order now from the Tri-M Merchandise Web Store to be ready for spring graduation—early orders are encouraged to mitigate possible wait times on delivery.
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As a member you have access to all the online archives for five peer-reviewed journals. Learn how you can write for these publications.
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NAfME PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WEBINARS
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Submit your idea for a webinar topic to the NAfME Professional Learning and Partnerships Committee (PLPC). Webinar proposals are reviewed by the PLPC.
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DR. LORI SCHWARTZ REICHL
Could we mentally and physically remove ourselves from the “work,” put our phone/device away, and focus on the people in our direct care? What if we measured productivity by a feeling of genuine presence? Read on to learn what a degree of presence may include.
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BRITTANY BAUMAN, SPONSORED BY NUVO INSTRUMENTAL
What makes a well thought out iconic notation system and how do you make the transition to standard notation? After more than two years of intensive research of what iconic notation systems currently exist and field testing new ideas with my students, I have summarized a few easy steps you can follow to help make the process from iconic to standard notation cohesive.
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JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION, JANUARY 2023
Mentoring is a critical element in the well-being, socialization, and professional identity development of graduate students. Yet in music education, little is known about the graduate student mentoring experience from the mentors’ perspective. Therefore, the purpose of this mixed-methods study by Vanessa L. Bond, Martina Vasil, Julie D. Derges, and Bryan E. Nichols was to examine music teacher educators’ perspectives on and experiences with graduate student mentoring. (Member login required.)
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JOURNAL OF GENERAL MUSIC EDUCATION, OCTOBER 2022
The National Core Arts Standards ask that students be the ones who identify and select rehearsal strategies to refine musical performances. However, these standards do not define what rehearsal strategies are, so this article by Emily Hatch digs into research on practicing and rehearsing to create a set of rehearsal strategies applicable to a general music classroom. (Member login required.)
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UPDATE: APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION, OCTOBER 2022
Richard S. Palese and Robert A. Duke asked school- and college-aged instrumentalists (N = 32) to imagine an ideal performance of a brief passage of music, record a performance of the passage, and describe discrepancies they noticed between their imagined and actual performances. The more experienced participants took at least as much time to imagine their idealized performances as it took to perform them; less experienced participants took less time to imagine what they were about to play. (Member login required.)
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Four lesson plans for Kindergarten and grades 2 and 4 are currently available for four songs. You can also access lesson plans from past years for kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade. All can be adapted for other grades as well.
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Encourage your state governor to pass a proclamation and your local officials to pass resolutions declaring this March as Music In Our Schools Month®.
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MIOSM chairpersons with each state organization provide the major thrust for the MIOSM celebrations, with the goal of involving students, administrators, parents, civic groups, and community members.
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For the 2023 Music In Our Schools Month®, National Association for Music Education is partnering with the Young Voices Education in Music Foundation and American Young Voices, which hosts the biggest school concerts in the world, to put more music in your students’ hands! Check out lesson plan, lyrics, vocal tracks, and more.
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Encourage parents and other family members, and community members to join in advocating for music education in your school and district and nationally as well. These program inserts include links to resources for music education advocates. (Portrait orientation also available.)
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Learn how Music In Our Schools Month began with an advocacy day in New York (celebrating 50 years this March), expanded to a week, and then 38 years ago grew to a month-long celebration and advocacy campaign.
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NAfME Notes will go on hiatus until January 12, 2023. Keep up to date on the latest blogs here, advocacy news here, or visit nafme.org.
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