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| Tracks | Session or Performing Group | Presenters and Conductors | Conference Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| WMEA President’s Welcome Relax and enjoy the opening evening with colleagues and friends in a casual, drop-in, piano bar atmosphere with complimentary snacks and a cash bar. Reconnect, request a song, and join us in celebrating the recipients of the 2022 WMEA Service Awards! | Brad Schneider | Wednesday | |
| Curriculum Development Lifelong Engagement in Music | Approaching Native American Music In this session, attendees will be provided ways for teachers to thoughtfully and appropriately include Native music in their classrooms. This will include the importance of visibility and representation of Natives in the classroom, how to begin the research process, and suggestions of resources. | Natasha Verhulst | Thursday |
| Mentoring Aspiring Music Majors Lifelong Engagement in Music | Buddies, Balance and Bypassing Burnout A music education career is rewarding and demanding. As professionals, maintaining focus and happiness depends greatly on having buddies, balancing life and career and bypassing burnout. This session will focus on these three characteristics of this wonderful career as we strive for happiness and longevity in both career and life. | Colleen Marler Michelle Henslin | Thursday |
| Choral | Choral Networking Session Share your questions and experience in this year’s choral networking session as we support each other in our education efforts. | Shawn Gudmunsen | Thursday |
| CMP | CMP Where You Least Expect It Planning for thoughtful outcomes can happen beyond traditional performance ensembles (band, orchestra, choir). This CMP session will help teachers connect the dots for using the CMP Model in a variety of music classes offered at the middle and high school levels. From general music, to jazz, to theory classes – all with intentional CMP outcomes. | Paul Gregg Matt McVeigh | Thursday |
| Band Composition & Improvisation | Composition as a Way of Knowing Imagine if every one of your students approached their music with a composer’s mindset. Why not put your students' names at the top right of their concert music? This session will present a collection of student-centered composition projects that use composition as a way of knowing and put student compositions, fully realized, on the concert program. | Tony Kading | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary | Connecting the Cultural Dots: Whole Student Engagement Through Storytelling Teachers are the storytellers. In order for students to engage in class we must make them central to the story line of each music lesson. This session will guide teachers in developing a deeper understanding of what encompasses the term “culture” through actively making space for students to develop their voice and share their cultural identity in music class. Sponsored by Quaver | Michele Hobizal | Thursday |
| Curriculum Development | Creating Homeplace in the Music Classroom Author and educator Dr. Bettina Love describes homeplaces as spaces that represent hopes and dreams, allow true selves to be valued, and respect humanity and dignity. How do we create this space in our music classrooms? Be prepared to examine your practice through a homeplace lens and design a musical space where every student feels valued. | Terri Felton | Thursday |
| Orchestra | Cultivating the Engaged Musician: The Art and Science of Meaningful Rehearsals While students come to us with different abilities and motivations, almost all of them want the opportunity to experience something meaningful during our rehearsals. In this session, the presenter discusses strategies for improving meaning-making and engagement during practice and performance. | Dr. Frank M. Diaz | Thursday |
| Curriculum Development Orchestra Band | Culturally Responsive Teaching – Beyond the Literature Diversifying repertoire and increasing representation are important steps in becoming a culturally responsive music teacher. But how do we go beyond the literature? In this session, participants will explore classroom strategies that dig deeper into the pedagogy of culturally responsive practice, moving beyond what we teach to how we teach it. | Terri Felton | Thursday |
| Technology Band General Music - Secondary | Dropping the Beat: Everyone Can Create Music Inclusion and access to meaningful music education for neurodiverse learners can be challenging to provide at all levels. Utilizing powerful adaptive/assistive technologies, Wausau East High School currently supports all learners who are interested in music through an adaptive music course as well as offering a full membership in the band program. | Robert Perkins Melissa Piette Elona Holdhusen | Thursday |
| Composition & Improvisation Curriculum Development Higher Ed/Research | Effort Given = Value Perceived This session will examine trauma-informed strategies for teaching in the secondary ensemble setting while also using those very same strategies to tap into the natural motivation every student has to create. Find intrinsic motivation, and light through improvisation, composition, and creativity sparking games. | Tony Kading | Thursday |
| Band | Elementary and Middle School Band Networking Session Join fellow band educators in this networking session. Bring ideas to share and questions to ask so all can grow in experiences and knowledge. | Brianne Knox | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary Technology | Engaging Lessons and Management Strategies for Upper Elementary In this session focused on grades 4-6 general music, attendees will learn engaging lessons and management strategies! This includes movement and composition lessons, group projects, incorporation of instruments and technology, lots of current and relevant material, and ways to connect that will leave your students loving music class! | Emilee Deck | Thursday |
| Curriculum Development Choral Advocacy | Engaging Students’ Mental Wellness Using Music as a Guide Participants in this session will be given a framework to use in their own classrooms for developing a conscious tool kit to implement into their rehearsals. Specific strategies include concert repertoire selection, discussion topics and daily reflective activities incorporating multiple music examples from many styles. Walk away with tangible exercises. | Shawn Gudmunsen | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary Curriculum Development | Enveloping Executive Function Skills Into Music Class In this session, attendees will be actively engaged in learning new strategies and activities to add to their existing lessons in order to help students develop social-emotional and executive functioning skills, like reading the room, flexible thinking and working memory. | Allison Schnier | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary Curriculum Development Higher Ed/Research | ESL Strategies for All Students in the Music Classroom Tired of being asked to teach English in your music class without guidance and at the expense of learning music? Let’s flip the script and borrow ESL strategies to help all students better understand music concepts, academic music terms and effective self-expression. Learn best practices that can be used in your classroom next week. | Charis Boersma | Thursday |
| General Music - Secondary | Flipping the Script in Music ED – Bringing Hip-Hop Into The Classroom This session introduces the pillars of hip-hop (MCing, B-Boying, DJing, Graffiti, and Knowledge of Self) and addresses how and why they should be employed as a throughline in the modern classroom. Options for hip-hop curriculum design that can be utilized as a cross-curricular unit of study will be discussed and shown. | Douglas Brown | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary | Folk Dancing With a Modern Twist Folk dances build community, motor skills and form/expression. With students reluctant to move to songs they don't recognize, honoring youth culture will increase participation, learning and joy in our classrooms. Come and dance familiar dances with modern tunes! Bring ideas of dance/song pairings you've used for a growing list of possibilities. | Christopher Powers | Thursday |
| Band NAfME Collegiate Curriculum Development | Forward March! Meaningfully Reimagine Your Marching Program Marching band can be a scary phrase to some band teachers, but it doesn't have to be! Learn practical steps from a marching team that transformed a park-and-blow program into a meaningful artistic experience for students. Hear from the director, color guard instructor and alumni turned percussion instructor in this hands-on session. | Kevin Cooley Carolyn Fitzgibbons-Zapotocny Anna Gates | Thursday |
| Composition & Improvisation Lifelong Engagement in Music | From Resting Tone to Harmony: Developing Improvisation in Minor Everyone can and should learn to improvise musically. In this session, participants explore activities that focus on developing improvisation in minor using the following sequence: Resting tone audiation, chord roots by rote and from audiation, harmonic audiation, and improvising over chord roots and harmonies. | David Potter | Thursday |
| General Music - Secondary | General Secondary Music Networking Session Join with other secondary general music educators to share your knowledge, experience, questions and ideas (big or small) in this networking session. | Eli Grover | Thursday |
| Choral NAfME Collegiate General Music - Secondary | Gesture and Teaching: Identifying Tools and Obstacles How do we use our gesture in our teaching? How does identity affect our gesture and our communication? In this session, attendees will be asked to examine their gesture through the lens of identity (including exploration of body space and comfortability), be given conducting exercises to do with ensembles and have an opportunity to share tips. | Shannon Gravelle | Thursday |
| Performing Group Barbershop | Here Comes Treble! | Conductor: Penny Yanke | Thursday |
| Band | High School Band Networking Session What skills are your students lacking? How did you help students improve? What resources have helped your own work? Bring all these and other ideas and questions with you as we meet together in this networking session. | Brianne Knox | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary | Incorporating Cooperative Learning Structures for Effective Learning Presenters will share cooperative learning definitions and benefits. Participants will engage in cooperative learning activities and see students (video clips) working in group activities. Cooperative learning is grounded in several learning theories, and participants will be provided with the essential elements needed for successful incorporation. | Laura Dunbar Shelly Cooper Karlena Leal | Thursday |
| Higher Ed/Research NAfME Collegiate Curriculum Development | The Invisible Power of Teacher Beliefs Teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning have a tremendous impact on what they do in the classroom and the experiences of their students, whether they are aware of it or not. This session will give you an opportunity to reflect on your beliefs, explore beliefs of others, and examine ways in which these beliefs might manifest in the classroom. Sponsored by GIA Publications, Inc. | Heather Shouldice | Thursday |
| Early Childhood General Music - Elementary | Laban: A Kinesthetic Approach to Fostering Beat Competency Rudolf Laban described all movement in terms of four core elements: Flow, Weight, Space, and Time. Laban Movement Analysis in movement activities for young children helps to develop their coordination and steady beat competency. Attendees will acquire ideas and activities that can be implemented directly in the classroom. | Corynn Nordstrom | Thursday |
| Technology | Looping! Creating Live Performances Through Loops and Technology One of the easiest, yet most powerful tools to create music with technology is looping. This session will go over analog looping through circle songs, then apply it to using looping through a loop station, looping software, and then loops through Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs). | Lee Stovall | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary Early Childhood | Magical Musical Moments Start With a Well-Constructed Mission The mission of teaching music – Make it FLOW! To be successful you must first know the steps to take in your lesson. Grab their attention from the moment they enter your room until the moment they sing their goodbye. This means YOU must know what YOU are doing to achieve your goal. What IS your goal? Sponsored by Peripole-Bergerault | Cak Marshall | Thursday |
| Advocacy | Making Advocacy Attainable for ME As an educator in the classroom, effectively advocating for students needs can feel like a daunting task. In this session, attendees will utilize tools such as power analysis, relationship building, aligning goals and more to develop a workable advocacy action plan to implement in their own districts. | Jazzmone Sutton Brad Schneider | Thursday |
| Band | Marching Band Playbook – Foundational Strategies for Success Sean Conway and Nick Monzi are familiar with the many struggles a band director might face as they inherit or build a marching program. No matter the goal (parade, competitive, homecoming, etc.), tools provided in this session will ensure directors are equipped with the knowledge they need to run a successful program of any size and function. Sponsored by Forward Performing Arts | Sean Conway Nick Monzi | Thursday |
| Performing Group Traditional Ojibwe singers | Mashkiiziibii Youth Singers | Conductor: Christine Hulmer and Nate Ante | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary Early Childhood | Meeting Social Justice Standards Through Indigenous Ways of Musicking This team of two indigenous and a native Mexican presenters will take participants through the steps of creating culturally responsive lessons that honor Indigenous and mestizo musical traditions of North and South America. Fostering social justice and meeting important social justice and WMEA music standards will be key components of this session. | Beatriz Aguilar Natasha Verhulst Brigetta Miller | Thursday |
| Mentoring NAfME Collegiate | Mentoring Program Networking Session Seasoned veterans share ideas, plans and successes in working with new and future music educators. | Stephanie Kapsa | Thursday |
| Band | Mindful Rehearsals to Maximize Learning Our internal musical image becomes realized through critical listening, sonic awareness and rehearsal skills. Instructions alone (saying) do not necessarily make a difference in the sound. It is how we employ our critical listening and imagination (doing) that leads to effective rehearsing. Saying and doing are different things! | Dr. Erica J. Neidlinger | Thursday |
| Advocacy Higher Ed/Research Lifelong Engagement in Music | Music Induced Hearing Loss: Origins, Mechanisms and Prevention Music induced hearing loss (MIHL) occurs after repeated high levels of music exposure, and permanent effects of MIHL present decades after music/noise exposure. This session will introduce changes to the auditory pathway that ensue after music/noise exposure. Strategies will be recommended to help prevent hearing loss in the future. | Margaret Halinski | Thursday |
| Choral General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary | Music Matters – A Pedagogical Framework for Literature Selection This interest session will provide a pedagogical framework for literature selection that addresses three central components: 1) the educational benefits of exposing singers to a broad range of musical styles, 2) sequencing repertoire to build on singers’ competencies, and 3) the influence of diverse literature choices on choral pedagogy. | Dr. Jabarie Glass | Thursday |
| NAfME Collegiate | NAfME Collegiate Networking Session NAfME Collegiate advisors and students share questions, ideas and concerns with each other in preparation for future music education positions. | Tobin Shucha | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary Curriculum Development | New Steps with Re/sound: Songs of Wisconsin Project Music connects with emotion. Emotion creates music. Learn how the Re/sound: Songs of Wisconsin Project helps your students connect with others through the many resources provided. Information on new steps in the project along with a preview of new resources will be shared. | Laurie Fellenz Darin Menk Jen Kobylecky Mia Forslund Ryan Hendricks Megan Monday | Thursday |
| Jazz | The Nuts and Bolts of Middle School Jazz Ensemble Tips and tricks for starting or improving the middle school jazz ensemble will be shared by experienced conductors and educators. | Matt Lamb Eric Becker Adam Bever | Thursday |
| Orchestra | Orchestra Networking Session Join fellow orchestra educators as they share ideas, resources and encouragement in this networking session. | Kristen Flak | Thursday |
| Band Choral Orchestra | Preparation for Middle Level Honors Auditions Panel members discuss how best to help your students prepare for successful WSMA Middle-Level Honors Auditions for Band, Orchestra, and Choir. | Marcy Russell Robert Ignaszak Brad Thew | Thursday |
| Band Curriculum Development CMP | Programming for the 21st Century Music Instrumental Music Educator This session will address why educators must be aware of programming trends, ways to provide diversity in programming, share programming ideas, and provide participants resources to assist with programming works by historically underrepresented composers. | John Stewart | Thursday |
| Higher Ed/Research General Music - Elementary Early Childhood | Research to Real Life: Applying Recent Research to Elementary General Music This session will share findings of recent research studies relevant for elementary music teachers to inform their teaching practice. Instead of focusing on jargon and statistics, attendees will look at how these research findings can be applied in practical ways to improve the experiences provided to students, including sample activities. Sponsored by GIA Publications, Inc. | Heather Shouldice | Thursday |
| Performing Group Choral | Rhinelander High School Chamber Ensemble | Conductor: Dr Desiree Duwe | Thursday |
| Band Orchestra Jazz | A Song Without Music - Teach in a New (Old) Way Interested in some new fresh material/tools to include in your instrumental program? Come steal the presenter’s hard work or create your own! Learning an entire piece of music by ear can be more beneficial than you think, and kids are sure to enjoy it! Get them thinking outside the notes on the page and emphasis listening/aural skills. Keep them playing music! | John Leja | Thursday |
| Technology | Technology Networking Session and Show and Tell Have a favorite music tech toy or software that you want to share? Interested in getting your hands on technology that you are intimidated about? This session is a great way to network with other teachers who use music technology in the classroom, or are interested in learning how to implement music technology in their classroom. There will be hands-on devices to play with and work with, and firsthand stories on how they can be used successfully in music education. | Lee Stovall | Thursday |
| Curriculum Development General Music - Secondary | Three Strands Walk Into a…. REHEARSAL! Allowing for Authentic Creativity in Any Ensemble Learn the techniques and resources you need to easily guide your students from dependence on the page to independence in the art form by utilizing the artistic processes of Create, Perform and Technology. | Glenn Hayes | Thursday |
| Band | Transition Talk: Navigating the Change From Middle to High School Band One of the most important elements of an exemplary band program is the ability to effectively transition students from middle school to high school. However, a successful transition can sometimes be difficult to achieve for a variety of reasons. This session will feature a panel of five Wisconsin band teachers at the middle and high school levels who will discuss solutions to common roadblocks in transition, including communication, curriculum development, outreach, and recruitment and retention. | Mike Fedyszyn Kevin Peterson Darlayne Coughlin Jacob Polancich Graham Westley | Thursday |
| Band Orchestra | Twenty-Four Things You Can Do Tomorrow to Improve Your Ensemble This session offers 24 ways you can immediately improve every rehearsal or class using simple techniques and strategies – improve the quality of your ensemble, make any rehearsal more productive and energize the power of your teaching. Useful for conductors of any level and type of ensemble. Sponsored by Alfred Music | Peter Boonshaft | Thursday |
| Mentoring NAfME Collegiate Advocacy | A Two-Way Street: Working Together on Teacher Turnover As the teacher shortage continues to grow, learn how to navigate and foster a positive working relationship between experienced teachers and new, fresh, incoming teachers. This panel discussion will focus on how mentoring is a two-way street. Experienced teachers can learn from new teachers and new teachers can learn from the experienced. | Shawn Gudmunsen Adam Bever Bryn Anderson Marissa Woletz Jon Broschk | Thursday |
| Performing Group Choral | UW-Madison Concert Choir | Conductor: Mariana Farah | Thursday |
| Performing Group Saxophone Ensemble | UW-Whitewater Saxophone Ensemble | Conductor: Matthew Sintchak | Thursday |
| General Music - Elementary Composition & Improvisation | A Vision to Create a Mission Working together as one unit often will allow students to achieve joy through their successful mission. From the moment the students enter the classroom they must be making music together. There's no time for idle chatter from the students or the teacher. The carefully structured lesson plan must flow with the careful guidance of the facilitator. Sponsored by Peripole-Bergerault | Cak Marshall | Thursday |
| Band Orchestra | Warm-Up and Ensemble Development Exercises That Work This session offers specific exercises for developing ensemble performance. These focused warm-ups isolate and target improvement in the areas of balance, blend, intonation, rhythm, rhythmic subdivision, listening, articulation, dynamics and virtually every aspect of large ensemble playing. Sponsored by Alfred Music | Peter Boonshaft | Thursday |
| Advocacy NAfME Collegiate | We're Educators, Darn It! Advocacy is what we do every day as music educators. We will explore ideas on how to effectively communicate with decision makers like administrators, home adults, colleagues and students. This session will not only focus on appropriate vocabulary through communication, but also on building relationships while keeping everything student centered. | Kati Seiter Carrie Backman | Thursday |
| General Music - Secondary General Music - Elementary Higher Ed/Research | What Does Activism Look Like in Your Classroom? Activism requires the action and imagination of a community in order to foster connections, honor lived experiences and encourage students to think critically about the world (Hess, 2019). During this networking session, participants will share practices and discuss challenges and solutions that contribute toward social change in their community. | Donna Hewitt | Thursday |
| Band Higher Ed/Research Curriculum Development | Who is in the (Band) Room? What might data from the Department of Education Civil Rights tell us about access to music education, especially for students of color in Wisconsin? Join the conversation about harnessing this data and increasing access to the musical experience, particularly in the band room. | Teryl Dobbs | Thursday |
| Performing Group | WSMA High School State Honors Band and Orchestra Concert The WSMA State Honors Music Project offers talented youth the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally known conductors in a professional setting. This concert serves as the culminating event for the band and orchestra students who have auditioned, participated in a three-day summer camp, and rehearsed together just one more day in the fall. These outstanding musicians represent the strength of school music programs around the state of Wisconsin! VENUE: Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI Note: This concert is not included in the conference registration. A separate ticket must be purchased from the Overture Center Box Office.</i? | Conductors: Scott Teeple Barbara Rhyneer | Thursday |
| Performing Group | WSMA High School State Honors Mixed and Treble Choir Concert The WSMA State Honors Music Project offers talented youth the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally known conductors in a professional setting. This concert serves as the culminating event for the choral students who have auditioned, participated in a three-day summer camp, and rehearsed together just one more day in the fall. These outstanding musicians represent the strength of school music programs around the state of Wisconsin! VENUE: Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI Note: This concert is not included in the conference registration. A separate ticket must be purchased from the Overture Center Box Office. | Conductors: Lee Nelson Rhonda Fuelberth | Thursday |
| Mentoring | You Have My Permission to Not Build a Program If you are in a place where your growth as a music teacher does not seem possible, that can be a swift way to feel like leaving teaching is the only solution to maintaining a semblance of sanity. In this session, the presenter addresses that it is okay to find a school that best helps you grow, even if that means leaving in a year or a few years. | Molly Schlaak | Thursday |
| Choral Band Orchestra | Adapting Our Response: Create Meaningful Responding Experiences for All Explore how to lead students in responding from kindergarten through college ensembles. Experience and create effective ways for each student to demonstrate their ability to respond using various methods and vocabularies. | Angela Roberts Kate Mitchell Laura Burns | Friday |
| CMP | Affective Outcomes That You Might Want to Steal Let’s face it – writing affective outcomes can be tricky. One of the best ways to create your own affective outcomes is to see some great examples. In fact, at this session you are invited to steal as many as you want! Join other participants to learn more about affective outcomes, their value, and the impact they can have in your classroom. | Randal Swiggum Margaret Jenks Chris Gleason | Friday |
| Technology Curriculum Development Choral | Applying Atomic Habits in the Music Classroom The book Atomic Habits encourages us to recognize our own needs as we create habits through systems and goal setting. The presenter will share how she was inspired to self-reflect and create practical systems and habits that streamline planning, assessment, and everyday details so she can continue to be joyfully creative and present while teaching. | Carrie Loney | Friday |
| Choral | The Best Things I Ever Stole – Expanding Our Classroom Bag of Tricks We all borrow from each other with hopes of enriching our students musical experience. This session will be a rapid-fire exploration of various teaching techniques used by the presenter on a regular basis. Topics include: tone/timbre, breathing, alignment, expressiveness, poetic understanding, assessment, intonation, musical literacy, movement and more! | Lee Nelson | Friday |
| Band Choral Orchestra | Blended Learning with Your Ensembles – A New Way Forward Does the idea of introducing technology to your class evoke nightmare visions of mountains of prep work, device incompatibility issues and content creation? We'll introduce you to a single-sign-on platform, compatible across all devices which integrates seamlessly with your favorite software tools, includes curated content and tracks student growth Sponsored by MusicFirst | Jonathan Bell Mike Olander | Friday |
| General Music - Secondary General Music - Elementary Composition & Improvisation | Body Percussion - Application, Creation, and Repertoire Body percussion takes many forms and engages the whole body in music making! With just their bodies, musicians in small groups to whole classes and ensembles can start making real music together even on day 1 of the school year. Join us as we explore stand-alone body percussion pieces as well as composition, notation, collaboration and more! | Leila Ramagopal Pertl Eli Grover | Friday |
| Band NAfME Collegiate | Breathe New Life Into Your Music Ensemble Give your inner flame a boost of oxygen, and discover how a focus on mindfulness, mindset, social-emotional learning, engaging rehearsal strategies and student leadership can ignite your passion for teaching music, leading to a culture of trust, excellence, inclusion, successful recruitment and retention, and a renewed sense of purpose. | Matthew Arau | Friday |
| Composition & Improvisation Orchestra Diversity Equity & Inclusion | Bringing Out the Best Musicality in Your Students To expand your students' musicality, you must augment their traditional skills with global styles. By nurturing students' creativity and building their playing abilities within the various rhythms and syncopation of global styles, they will strengthen their musical language skills and creative intelligence, enabling you to grow your ensembles. Sponsored by Electrify Your Orchestra | Mark Wood | Friday |
| Band CMP | Composer Diversity for High School Band Resources provided on how to find, select and program literature from diverse composers. This presentation will share the findings of a graduate thesis project. The focus is for high school band, however, the databases presented are also relevant for other ensembles. | Bryan Kujawa | Friday |
| Band General Music - Secondary Lifelong Engagement in Music | Creating Leaders and Musicians Through the Marching Activity This session will focus on the results and benefits of the marching activity and how it can improve your overall program and school culture. | Amy Fuchs Adam Bassak Tom Reifenberg | Friday |
| Jazz Band Composition & Improvisation | Creating Rhythm Sections That Groove This session will cover comping for piano and guitar with information on suggested voicings, ideas for rhythm section games that allow students to discover their groove thing, concepts for bass and drums that allow your band to swing, and suggestions for how to create combo environments within the big band. | Barb Catlin | Friday |
| General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary Lifelong Engagement in Music | Dance On! Folk Dancing for your Classroom and Community Explore ways folk dance can teach general music standards, enhance SEL and strengthen school communities. Includes a variety of American folk dances and a toolkit for easily getting students dancing. Learn traditional dances, acquire valued teaching tips, and discuss how dance can build an inclusive and accepting community. | Sue Hulsether | Friday |
| General Music - Elementary General Music - Secondary Curriculum Development | DAPP: A Framework for Africentric Music Education for All Black music traditions are foundational to American culture. This session proposes a systematic framework for engaging Africentric music – Dispositions, Aims, Pedagogy and Practice (DAPP). It will provide strategies to music educators of all backgrounds – to put the framework into action and to ground their teaching in lived experience. Sponsored by GIA Publications, Inc. | Georgiary Bledsoe | Friday |
| Orchestra CMP General Interest | Dealing with Injury and Implementing New Skills This session addresses the presenter’s path to recovery and the rehabilitation process after having being diagnosed with focal dystonia in 2009. The presenter will discuss the awareness of clearer mind-body connections and will demonstrate the implementation a new set of skills relying on using larger muscle groups and proper physical actions. | Bernard Zinck | Friday |
| Band | Do You Hear What I Hear? Lessons Learned From Master Musicians Texas band director and author Jeff King shares the lessons learned from other master musicians on his 36-year quest to develop exercises for superior tone, flexibility, range, articulation, dynamics, technique, listening skills and more. Sponsored by Neil Kjos Music Company | Jeff King | Friday |
| Choral General Music - Secondary Curriculum Development | Every Voice Matters: Inclusive and Responsive Choral Practices This session will offer strategies, instructional techniques, activities and materials that have the flexibility to meet the needs of all singers. By proactively planning with learner variability in mind, we not only meet the special educational needs of some of our singers, we make learning more meaningful for every student in our care. | Rhonda Fuelberth | Friday |
| Higher Ed/Research NAfME Collegiate Mentoring | From Theory to Practicality – Help for Students and New Teachers This scenario-based, interactive session will include facilitated collegial discussion about common in-the-trenches situations experienced by both new and veteran teachers. Attendees will leave with strategies to help navigate common situations in the music classroom that go beyond music making, classroom management and student rapport. | John Popke Joy Paffenroth | Friday |
| General Music - Elementary | General Elementary Music Networking Session Need new ideas or encouragement in your work? Did you find or do you have resources that reach every student? Join fellow elementary music educators to share, build and encourage one another in this networking session. | Natasha Verhulst | Friday |
| CMP | Get Out of the Strategy Rut Are you teaching the same skills, the same way, over and over? In this session, the presenters will share dozens of varied and creative strategies for important yet conventional outcomes (intonation, rhythm reading, pitch reading). Be ready to participate in the process! Having a multitude of strategies is always more fun and benefits all learners. | Margaret Jenks Marcy Russell | Friday |
| Choral | The Great Choral Treasure Hunt #19 Tired of programming the repertoire you already know, but not enough time to find new treasures? Interested in expanding students' capacity, but not sure where to find repertoire that raises the thinking bar? Join Randy Swiggum and Margaret Jenks as they share their favorite findings of 2022 in the 19th annual Great Choral Treasure Hunt. | Randal Swiggum Margaret Jenks | Friday |
| NAfME Collegiate Advocacy | I Got a Job! Now What? You went to college, did your student teaching, and have your first job as a music educator. Exciting! But now reality sets in, and while you are still excited, you are now feeling a bit nervous. Recruitment and retention, small group learning, trips and fundraising, home adult music groups, classroom management, advocacy, and more will be explored. | Kati Seiter | Friday |
| Curriculum Development General Music - Elementary Higher Ed/Research | The Impact and Implementation of an SEL Embedded Orff Approach Tiffany's recent research and dissertation data results demonstrate that an SEL-embedded Orff approach to music education creates incredible results within the music classroom. Learn how to easily and seamlessly create your own SEL strategies, and implement them into your Orff approach. | Tiffany Wilson | Friday |
| Jazz | Jazz Warmups With Intention This session showcases the use of warmups to infuse improvisation with idiomatic jazz language, providing all musicians with meaningful material they need when taking or composing solos and drum fills. Warmups are differentiated by skill/interest level. | Scott Hensiak | Friday |
| Advocacy Curriculum Development Lifelong Engagement in Music | Legal Guidelines for Performing Sacred Music in Public Schools This session will present a set of proposed legal guidelines based on the U.S. Constitution for performing sacred music in public schools. | Thompson Brandt | Friday |
| Performing Group Band | Oregon Middle School Band | Conductor: Kati Seiter | Friday |
| Curriculum Development Orchestra | Personalized Learning in the Large Ensemble Research indicates when students set goals and create learning paths, achievement levels are high. When students have agency in the classroom, they have a sense of ownership and accountability to their teacher and themselves. This session will provide tools to move into a personalized learning model without sacrificing high performance standards. | Lauren Roznowski Michael Hayden | Friday |
| General Music - Secondary Curriculum Development General Music - Elementary | Social Emotional Learning in the Music Classroom | Scott Edgar Yorel Lashley | Friday |
| Orchestra Composition & Improvisation Jazz | Step Away From the Page: Teaching Improvisation to String Players Incorporating eclectic styles and improvisation in the traditional orchestra classroom offers a unique opportunity for students to expand their musicality. Yet the idea of teaching and learning to improvise can be scary to both teachers and students alike. Learn improv techniques and about resources to include in your teaching repertoire. | Monica Hrudik | Friday |
| Band Choral Orchestra | Student Ownership in the Music Classroom: From Micro to Macro Take time in this session to see, hear, feel and experience first hand how students can be co-designers in the curriculum and experiences in your music classroom. | Ian Melrose Aimee Swanson Brian Vanderbloemen | Friday |
| Technology General Music - Secondary General Music - Elementary | Teaching Informal Music Learning Through Technology Session presents lessons in which technology and music skills come together in listening and feedback (mixing) projects for elementary and secondary settings. Lessons employ peer-feedback techniques and encourage deeper listening practices. Students create music with instruments/songs of their own choice. No prior technology experience is required! | Rachel Brashier Patrick Lawrence | Friday |
| Advocacy Lifelong Engagement in Music NAfME Collegiate | Teaching the Rainbow: Supporting LGBTQ Students in the Music Classroom This session will address the LGBTQ students in your room. It will discuss how to be intentional and inclusive of your students. Specific topics to be discussed include: concert attire, pronouns, transitioning students, addressing families, repertoire, and resources you can use to further your own learning and support your students. | Elizabeth Graber | Friday |
| General Music - Secondary General Music - Elementary Composition & Improvisation | Theater Games and Drum Grooves Collaborative creativity is at the heart of inclusive pedagogy. Theater games and polyrhythmic grooves build intimate, compassionate and dynamic community in the music classroom. Come and be a part of this hands-on, ears-on, interactive play space, immersing ourselves in theater and drumming. | Leila Ramagopal Pertl | Friday |
| Advocacy NAfME Collegiate | Why Teach? Why Now? Let’s talk about why music education is the career for YOU! Whether you’re considering music education or are a seasoned veteran, this session will offer inspiration. Presenters will share their WHY as educators, explore new opportunities in music education, and discuss how to thrive, despite challenges, while positively impacting students. Bring ideas! | Paul Budde Erin Holmes | Friday |
| Performing Group Band | Wisconsin Symphonic Winds | Conductor: Devin Otto | Friday |
| Performing Group | WSMA High School State Honors Jazz Ensemble The WSMA State Honors Music Project offers talented youth the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally known conductors in a professional setting. This concert serves as the culminating event for the jazz ensemble students who have auditioned, participated in a three-day summer camp, and rehearsed together just one more day in the fall. These outstanding musicians represent the strength of school music programs around the state of Wisconsin! VENUE: Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI Note: This concert is not included in the conference registration. A separate ticket must be purchased from the Overture Center Box Office. | Conductor: Barb Catlin | Friday |
| Band | About Last Night: Discussion with Omar Thomas, composer | Dr. Scott Teeple Omar Thomas | Friday |
| Performing Group | WSMA Middle Level State Honors Choir, Band and Orchestra Concert The WSMA State Honors Music Project offers talented youth the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally known conductors in a professional setting. This concert serves as the culminating event for the band, orchestra, and choral students who have auditioned, participated in a three-day summer camp, and rehearsed together just one more day in the fall. These outstanding musicians represent the strength of school music programs around the state of Wisconsin! VENUE: Verona High School Performing Arts Center, Verona, WI Note: Your purchased ticket can be used to attend any or all of the three separate Middle Level Honors concerts on Saturday. | Conductors: Jabarie Glass Erica Neidlinger Frank M. Diaz | Saturday |
