Acknowledgements
2022-23 WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards Committee
Chair: Aimee Swanson – School District of South Milwaukee
- Dr. Beatriz Aguilar – Edgewood College
- Laura Burns – Edgewood College
- Stephanie Kapsa – Appleton Area School District & UW-Stevens Point
- Ian Melrose – Sun Prairie Area School District
- Kate Mitchell – Pewaukee School District
- Angela Roberts – Waunakee Middle School
- Brian Vanderbloemen – McFarland School District
- Natasha Verhulst – Menomonie Indian School District
Founding Members: (L-R) Aimee Swanson, Leyla Sanyer, Rich Tengowski,
Christine Hayes, Paul Budde, and Kate Mitchell
Research and Writing Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Wisconsin Music Educators Association and their leadership, Executive Committee, Board, and Council for support throughout the research and writing process. We also appreciate the support to present our work at the 2016 WMEA Wisconsin State Music Conference.
We would like to thank 2016 NAfME national leadership, President Denese Odegaard, Executive Director Mike Blakeslee and Past President Scott Schuler for answering our questions as we began our work on the Wisconsin Standards. President Odegaard also joined us in October 2016 for the state conference presentation on the standards development.
We would like to thank the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance committee for including a presentation of the draft standards to participants at the 2016 CMP Summer Workshop.
We would like to thank DPI Chief of Staff (formerly Standards and Curriculum) Emilie Amundson and Fine Arts and Creativity Consultant Julie Palkowski for their support in the initiation of our work in the summer of 2015.
We would like to thanks all those who joined with us on the January 2017 review committee for their input and consult:
- Kathy Bartling; Waunakee (General)
- Lauren Belanger; Howard-Suamico (General)
- Jeff David; Mineral Point (General)
- Catherine Demmon; UW-Whitewater Student (Music Education)
- Melissa DiFazzio; Janesville (General)
- Nicole Duhaime; Howard-Suamico (General)
- Laura Dunbar; UW-Eau Claire (Music Education)
- Laurie Fellenz; Madison (Administration)
- Dominic Gischia; Johnson Creek (Band)
- Lisa Greene; Kohler (Administration)
- Jeanne Hammes; Middleton Cross Plains (Band)
- Renee Hanson; Barneveld (Vocal Music)
- Michael Hayden; Wauwatosa (Orchestra)
- Glenn Hayes; UW-Whitewater (Music Education)
- Kendra Junk; Medford (Band)
- Douglas Johnson; Racine (Administration)
- Justin Kamp; Milton (General)
- Steve Kurr; Middleton Cross Plains (Orchestra)
- Terry Little; Brookfield (Band)
- Hannah Muehlbauer; West Bend (Orchestra)
- Marie Northup; Wausau (Administration)
- Teresa Ploch; Beaver Dam (General)
- Chris Powers; Waterloo (Band)
- Kevin Rhodes; Oshkosh (Band)
- Caitlin Rutz; Oregon (General)
- Kim Schindler; Abbotsford (Vocal Music)
- Brad Schneider; Middleton Cross Plains (Band retired)
- Kati Seiter; Manitowoc (Band)
- Rick Townsend; Maranatha College (Music Education)
- Sana Wressell; Wausau (General)
- Jack Young; Hudson (Orchestra)
Credits & Copyrights
National Core Arts Standards – Portions of this work are based on the National Core Arts Standards(Copyright © 2015 National Coalition for Core Arts Standards/All Rights Reserved – Rights Administered by SEADAE)
