NAfME Past President Paul R. Lehman will be the keynote speaker Thursday, November 3, and Dr. Richard Antoine White of R.A.W. Tuba will be the keynote speaker Friday, November 4. Register now and reserve your room! Hotel block rate ends this Sunday.
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George Mason University Green Machine, directed by Dr. Michael Nickens, better known as “Doc Nix”
Seven exciting student performing groups will take the various stages at the 2022 NAfME National Conference—and you don’t want to miss these performances this November! Student groups hail from Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Nebraska, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
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Acknowledging the challenges our nation’s education system has faced in attracting, recruiting, and retaining qualified educators and other critical school professionals, the Biden-Harris administration announced it will be partnering with leading job platforms to make it easier to find opportunities in the education field, and with teachers’ unions and national and state organizations to expand high-quality pathways into the profession for future teachers.
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Read this on the Yamaha Educator Suite.
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Did you miss the September 12 “Arts Education for All Students in 2022-23” town hall? Watch it now and send a letter to your state elected officials in support of music and other arts education.
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NAfME COLLEGIATE
NAfME Collegiate Chapter advisors, you can now watch the August 16 NAfME Collegiate chat, “Back to School: Starting Off on the Right Foot” with members of the NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council.
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NAfME COLLEGIATE
Did you miss the NAfME Collegiate Kickoff Week opening celebration and awards ceremony? NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council Chair Susan Smith, Dr. Cameron Jenkins, Fran Kick, and NAfME President Scott R. Sheehan—and 2022 NAfME Collegiate Recognition Award winners inspire you for the new school year.
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NAfME COLLEGIATE AND TRI-M® MUSIC HONOR SOCIETY
Here’s a great chapter watch party idea to spur ideas for the school year. NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council Chair Susan L. Smith, Fran Kick, and Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser led this interactive event with NAfME Collegiate members and chapter advisors, and Tri-M students and advisors, addressing growing their chapter membership with collaboration across campus; building impact with service beyond their chapter; and creating more intentional interaction between Collegiate and Tri-M members.
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The 2022 NAfME National Conference will take place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland (near Washington, DC). Be sure to use the link provided to register in order to take advantage of the special rate available through Sunday. Wifi in hotel room included.
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NAfME COUNCIL OF MUSIC PROGRAM LEADERS
Authentic and REAL collaborations end up changing kids' lives. Kids know REAL when they see it, and they also know contrived. Project-based learning is something students, teachers, families, and communities can rally around. Spend time with Beth Fortune and Ann Medellin discussing the collaborative, community partnerships, and artistic process. Be empowered with ideas, solutions, conversations, and permissions to develop inspiring and cool projects for your students.
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Seeking a new position? You can post your resume, apply for jobs, get job alerts on the NAfME Career Center. And employers, add your open positions to the NAfME Career Center where you can manage applications and search resumes.
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New Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Resources curriculum units for harmonizing instruments are available now, along with curriculum units for small instrumental and vocal ensembles, general music, chorus, band, and orchestra at the K–12 levels.
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NAfME PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WEBINARS
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We want to hear from you! Join members of the PLPC for an interactive discussion (an “unwebinar”) on September 29, 7:00PM ET, focused on key trends and issues facing PreK–12 teachers nationwide. Share your success stories/innovations, challenges, questions, and areas where you would like to see more professional development resources as you start the new school year.
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Sheltered instruction can help connect students to the content, to language, and to one another. Sheltered instruction encourages teachers to build on students’ background knowledge (including language and literacy skills in the home language) using an asset-based approach that affirms and centers what students know and can do (Short et al., 2018). This session, led by Cara Bernard and Joseph Michael Abramo, will provide music teachers with components for effective instruction of ELs using the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP). Participants will then apply the SIOP practices to lessons and repertoire they currently teach.
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NAfME CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT
A forward-thinking curriculum blending performance and education.
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In this webinar, Tom FitzStephens will address the philosophical position of amateurism in music education, then present lessons that increase students’ musical independence, curiosity, and transferable knowledge in many genres. Learning activities include performing, composing, improvising, listening, collaborating, songwriting, arranging, and producing. In his chorus class he uses the ukulele and keyboards, which engage students and aid them in developing powerful musical knowledge that can sustain their musical involvement into adulthood.
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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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Students at Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe Elementary in Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools develop their oral communication skills when sharing their work.
BRANDON ROEDER
When we say that music education is for everyone, we mean everyone. We also recognize that many of our teachers are at a loss when faced with the task of creating meaningful instruction for student populations who are increasingly multilingual. 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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CHRISTIAN ROBINSON
I started Studio Ensemble at my school to offer a space for musicians who would have been typically turned away from a wind ensemble, choir, orchestra, or jazz band. … Stop and talk to these students in the hallway, invite them to eat lunch in the band room, go to see them at the school talent show where they will surely be the best act, and find out what music they want to play. 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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HEATHER FORTUNE
What if we set those preset ensembles aside for a moment, and consider different ensemble models? What if we decide to value exploration alongside mastery, creativity as well as replication, and community over competition? 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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WILLIAM SAUERLAND, ED.D., SPONSORED BY SCHMIDT VOCAL ARTS
As a choral conductor and singing teacher, I am constantly aiming to foster musicality in singers. While this process includes an initial investigation of pitches, rhythms, harmonies, and musical articulations, a singer’s musicality—the magical connection and choices a singer makes within the song—can be more challenging to teach.
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NAfME CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT
Let us help you do your best teaching online and shape the next generation of musicians.
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DAVID RANKINE
Whether simply hanging a small green screen on your wall, or a studio the size of a classroom, your students will have the opportunity to create simple or elaborate video productions using their own Android or Apple devices and free apps. Educators will be able to transform activities they are already using in their classrooms into a professionally edited multimedia production. 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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ALEX RIVERA
Rewriting implicit bias, like laundry and taxes, is a lifelong endeavor. Once you’ve identified your implicit biases, you are able to move forward by diversifying your classroom and diversifying your points of view. 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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SPONSORED BY MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Manhattan School of Music (MSM) faculty member Ethan Bensdorf, trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, shares tips on how brass students can prepare for audition season and how their music directors can support them so they make the strongest impression possible.
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JAN SCOTT
Service-learning is an exciting hands-on approach to education that integrates community service with classroom instruction and will enrich the learning experience for everyone involved in the process. Not all students in the classroom will learn the same way. Exploring and implementing new ways to teach the content only enhances the learning environment. 2022 NAfME National Conference presenter.
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ALEXANDER BUSBY
Project Grow Music was initially designed for three group keyboard classes (grades 9–12) at Oviedo High School. The group keyboard classes at OHS are elective courses and are designed for those with little to no experience playing the keyboard. Here are tips for implementing this program in your school.
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PHILIP TAMBERINO
The ukulele is a valuable tool for learning the skills we teach in classroom music as much as it is an accessible instrument for young people to play. There are plenty of ways students can experience early success in performance while also maintaining a gentle learning curve and avoiding over-reliance on supports.
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KRISTIN LOOS
One of the tricks to having a successful ukulele class is fostering the idea that we sound better and make better music when we are successful together. At least 2-3 times in each class, I leave space for students to practice with a partner or small group and check each other’s fingerings.
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JOURNAL OF GENERAL MUSIC EDUCATION, OCTOBER 2020
Using differentiation as a framework, Cara Faith Bernard and Christopher Cayari examine how participatory music making (PMM) might meet these needs. They offer strategies for implementing PMM using ukulele in various types of music classrooms, including differentiating music making for participation, extending participation through performance, and mediating participation through technologies. (Member login required.)
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THOMAS AMORIELLO JR.
Kiel Schweizer’s high school ukulele ensemble has been featured several times in local news, and they continue to spread the Aloha spirit wherever they perform. “I am fortunate enough to have a full-time position at East teaching only guitar and ukulele. We offer Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced levels of instruction for both instruments.”
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LAUMA KAZAKA, SPONSORED BY SOLFEG.IO
In developing digital education tools, it is necessary to execute the following didactic principles: sequence, comprehensibility, correspondence to age, individualization, differentiation, self-growth, and persistence of knowledge to be able to set and achieve purposeful learning goals.
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