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Clinic/Session Category Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) Clinic Presentation for (MMEA Area): Please check all areas that you would like to consider this session. MMEA | President Approved Title of Clinic/Session Clinic/Session Description
  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • MSHSAA
  MSHSAA Vocal Music Adjudicator Training

This session is open to any music educator at no charge. In order to be certified to judge at the MSHSAA Festivals, it is a requirement that the attendees have seven years of teaching experience. Music Educator’s with less than seven years teaching experience are welcome to attend and would likely find the session educational and beneficial.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • MSHSAA
  MSHSAA Instrumental Music Adjudicator Training

This session is open to any music educator at no charge. In order to be certified to judge at the MSHSAA Festivals, it is a requirement that the attendees have seven years of teaching experience. Music Educator’s with less than seven years teaching experience are welcome to attend and would likely find the session educational and beneficial.

   
  • MOAJE
  MOAJE Business Meeting

Annual MMEA Meeting for MOAJE Members

   
  • MOAJE
  MOAJE Reading Session

Bring your ax and sticks and be ready to read some new, and tried and true big band charts

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Jazz
  Big Band Basics

This presentation will address common issues with young jazz ensembles, from a clinician’s perspective. Focusing on rhythm section roles, swing feel, articulation, and some specific rehearsal techniques will help your group take a step forward.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Jazz
  Use What You Already Know: How to Embellish the Melody as a Gateway to Jazz Improvisation

We will learn how to use the melody as a launching point to jazz improvisation. A great approach for all ability levels, this can be especially helpful for students of all ages.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  “New Choral Music for Beginning through Intermediate Voices”

Join Walton Music and Endeavor Music Publishing for a reading session of wonderfully accessible pieces for beginning through intermediate voices of all ages. Cameron LaBarr and Bethany Main will present works for developing mixed, tenor/bass, treble, and children’s choirs, and that are suitable for preparing with limited rehearsal time. Come sing with your colleagues and find your next favorite piece! Packets graciously provided by JW Pepper.

  • Reading Session (TBD)
 
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Music and tips for your choirs from our All State Children's Choir Director Sophia Papoulis

Music for your elementary choirs. Come warm up your voice with the All State Children's Choir Director!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  Teaching Choirs to Sing in Tune

Vocal Music Education has long ignored facing the realities of teaching our singers just how to listen in context. This session will share the practical application music learning theory to the choral rehearsal with regard to creating a new awareness of listening between and among others. Participants will leave with effective and shockingly principles that will cause in tune singing.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  Teaching Choirs to Sing in Tune

Vocal Music Education has long ignored facing the realities of teaching our singers just how to listen in context. This session will share the practical application music learning theory to the choral rehearsal with regard to creating a new awareness of listening between and among others. Participants will leave with effective and shockingly principles that will cause in tune singing.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • NAfME-Collegiate
  Listen to the Science: A New Approach to Choral Singing

This session will share revolutionary vocal pedagogical approaches to the choral rehearsal that solve the most difficult vocal challenges in choirs at any age and level of development. Participants will leave with a renewed understanding of the choral warm-up, its objectives and a new approach to teaching a piece of literature.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Community Dance

Musicians for our Community Dance are the '32 Bartenders' from Columbia, MO.

  • Keynote Address ( TBD)
 
  • MMEA | President Approved
MMEA | President Approved Beholding

This keynote will hopefully share a fundamental truth about teaching that maybe we have not given the appropriate thought to become a part of what we do day to day.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Orchestra
  • MoASTA
  Meet the Conductor

Come meet and speak with Soo Han regarding his journey to becoming our All-State Conductor as well as his thoughts on conducting.

  • Reading Session (TBD)
 
  • MoASTA
  MoASTA Reading Session

We will sight-read music from alternative styles. If you have a piece that you enjoy from this genre bring it to read as well.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Multicultural
  In the Beginning: Jewish Music in Secular Schools

Like all cultures, Jewish music covers a wide spectrum of themes, occasions, and genres. In this session, we will explore Jewish and Hebrew choral repertoire and discuss how to appropriately and effectively incorporate it into a curriculum and concert program. Participants will learn when to program Jewish music, how to choose appropriate literature for different occasions, and how to teach pieces of Jewish culture and tradition in ways that are approachable and relevant to students from all backgrounds.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • SMTE
  Reconsidering Competition: Revelations and Resources

How do you use competition to help your students learn and experience music? What does it do positively for students? What does it do negatively for students? How does it affect you personally and professionally as a teacher? This session will focus upon how music educators can approach making decisions about competition for their music programs and how this may advance the best interests of students.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • MMEA | President Approved
MMEA | President Approved MSHSAA Update

Drop in and ask questions about any and all MSHSAA updates, policies, and procedures. A great resource for new teachers and veterans alike. Led by MSHSAA Associate Executive Director, James Melton, this session allows for not only information on the broad programs that MSHSAA covers but also individual questions and concerns that members may have.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • College/University
  Hot Topics in Music Education

Come enjoy a panel discussion with music teacher educators about the state of collegiate music education and related hot topics.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • College/University
  Research Informing Practice: Review of Recent Research in Music Education

This session will include brief reviews of research findings that provide meaningful takeaways for music teachers of all ages and sub-disciplines.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  “A Choral Reading Session for Beginning and Developing Voices”

Join us as Walton Music and Endeavor Music Publishing combine to present a variety of wonderfully accessible pieces for beginning and developing voices. Dr. Cameron LaBarr and Bethany Main will lead us through several works for intermediate groups and for choirs who may need a song they can work up quickly and easily. The session will include works for mixed choir, tenor/bass choir, treble choir, and children’s choir.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  “Seeking more than Vive L’Amour? A Presentation of Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced TTBB Literature”

Many of us know the standard 10-20 TTBB choral gems that we have either performed in college or at State Large Ensemble Festivals. This list can become a bit overused, but also, much of this 4-part divisi literature is too challenging for our younger TB singers. This session will present a shareable and collaborative, annotated collection of over 200 and growing tried and true pieces of TB literature for beginning, intermediate and advanced ensembles.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  “Our FUNdemental Reach: Maximizing Student Engagement in the Choral Rehearsal”

Student engagement is vital to the culture of the ensemble, as well as, the individual and group learning outcomes, but it can sometimes feel impossible to cultivate. Fortunately, with the right planning and strategies, maximum attention, energy, and engagement is within reach. This session provides strategies related to planning, implementation and reflection in the choral setting. Teachers will leave this interactive session with practical activities and resources including partsongs, warm-ups, games and specific lesson planning-techniques to reimagine your next choral rehearsal.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Choral
  “Sing Your Heart Out” - Songs to Inspire Your Heart, Mind, and Soul sponsored by Gentry Publications

Please join Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, executive editor of Gentry Publications, as he presents some of the newest and most popular choral literature from Gentry Publications' catalog. This session will feature titles and resources that are creative, flexible, educational, and inspirational for high schools, colleges and universities, community ensembles, and church choirs. There will be something for everyone.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Technology
  Using Technology in the Music Classroom

Join us as we explore the integration of technology in general music classes, covering elementary through high school levels. Discover new programs, applications, and explore sample lesson plans and projects that incorporate technology. We'll also provide insights into Chromebook and iPad lesson applications in this informative session.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Technology
  How to Make Your Room Sound Better

Room acoustics are critically important to the sound of your ensemble, as well as the ability of performers to hear each other accurately. Similarly, poor acoustics present challenges for intelligibility, impacting communication between students and teachers. In this session, we’ll learn basic principles of room acoustics and DIY strategies for assessing and improving the acoustics of your classroom, rehearsal room, and performance spaces.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Technology
  Hands-On Technology-Based Performance: Teaching with free and/or inexpensive software

No prior experience required; we'll start from scratch. It's guaranteed to be fun! Bring your laptop to this hands-on workshop and discover the creative and educational potential of tech-based music performance in your classroom. Explore MIDI keyboards, grid controllers, beatmaking, and voice/instrument processing. We'll use software compatible on both Windows and Mac, even on older machines.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Technology
  How I teach music tech and how you can too!

Delve into engaging projects, innovative assignments, recommended programs, and valuable resources. Depart with practical ideas and a structured plan to launch your music tech class.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Equity
  It Starts With You!

Do you struggle with knowing where and how to start being more DEIA focused in your programs? Take a deep dive into how
to develop a non bias DEIA auditing system for your music selections and programs.

  • Keynote Address ( TBD)
 
  • MMEA | President Approved
  • Mentoring
MMEA | President Approved Five Months and Counting! Catch

Conference Pre-Session: First year teachers join us for a 'catch-up' on how things are going. There will be break out sessions band, choir, K-12, and elementary music. Bring your questions and concerns and let's talk.

  • Quick Take Session / (25 Minutes)
 
  • Orchestra
  • Mentoring
  Things for Strings: Steps in building your young string program

Build your program on strong fundamentals and basic skills for success.

  • Quick Take Session / (25 Minutes)
 
  • Choral
  • Mentoring
  "You've Got This: Tips and tricks for a successful choir rehearsal

Efficient rehearsals build excellent performances. How to get it done.

  • Quick Take Session / (25 Minutes)
 
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  • Mentoring
  Stepping and Prepping the Elementary Music Program

Develop lesson plans that incorporate movement with music to get some pep in their steps!

  • Quick Take Session / (25 Minutes)
 
  • Band
  • Choral
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  • Mentoring
  Calming the Chaos: Organizing and building a successful K-12 program

Finding structure to organize your teaching and goals for the K-12 music educator

   
  • MOAJE
  MOAJE Jam Session

Bring your instrument and Sit In! Everyone is Welcome

   
  • MOAJE
  MOAJE Business Meeting

Meeting for Jazz Educators

   
  • MOAJE
  Student Jam Session

All State Jazz Band Members Will Call Tunes and Experience An Organized Jam

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • MOAJE
  Meet The All-State Jazz Director

Meet the Director of DiVA, Sherrie Maricle

  • Reading Session (TBD)
 
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • MOAJE
  • Multicultural
  MOAJE Jazz Reading Session

Join us, and don't forget to bring your instrument as we explore both new and tried and true charts of all levels.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Equity
  Real Ensemble Culture Building (Ice Breakers Not Included)

Icebreakers and team builders are great, but research indicates they have little impact on organizational culture. Without an intentional plan in place, the culture of an ensemble can take on a life of its own. Using knowledge from organizational psychology and practical experience, conductors can thoughtfully design and effectively enact their desired culture. In this interactive session, attendees will be guided through a simple, research-based process to define their desired culture and bring it to life.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Tri-M
  Utilizing Tri-M to Advance Music Education

This clinic is open to all music teachers, with or without a Tri-M Chapter. During this clinic, we will discuss how the De Soto High School Tri-M Chapter is utilized within the school district and community to provide additional opportunities for the advancement of student leadership, musical opportunities, and support for our district music programs.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Advancing Music Education
  You’re the Foundation: How to do self-care that creates optimal mental health in your students

Enough is enough!

For too long, musicians and music teachers have glorified the kind of endless (and inefficient) work patterns that can only end in burn-out. The truth is, burn-out doesn’t help ANYONE. Not you, and definitely not your students.

In this session, you will learn
How a dysregulated music teacher can negatively impact the emotional and mental health of students,
How an emotionally regulated music teacher can uniquely strengthen the emotional and mental health of students,

What self-care practices are most effective to help in self-regulation.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Advancing Music Education
  Addressing the Music Teacher Shortage: How can you help?

The music teacher shortage in Missouri is a serious problem. This session will focus on solutions MMEA members can achieve.
How do we present our field as an appealing career path for our students? How do we prepare students for college? How do we retain them in
college music programs? How do we help young teachers navigate the first years of teaching? Educators will leave this session with ideas for
being part of the solution to this problem.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Band
  • Technology
  Routines to Develop Expression from the First Rehearsal

Expressive concepts like dynamics, phrasing, and articulation are often seen as the icing on the cake once a developing band has learned to play pitches and rhythms together. But each of these concepts takes time and practice to do well, both individually and as an ensemble. We will discuss methods that give your students opportunities to practice these skills from day one. We will include resources that will develop your band, increase rehearsal consistency, and make your job less stressful.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • General Music
  Using and Creating Podcasts to Improve Your Teaching

Podcasts have become a great source of both entertainment and education for over a decade. Using podcasts in your teaching can help
your classroom instruction, studio teaching, and ensemble participation, as well as help develop professional abilities inside and outside
of the classroom. This session will discuss applications involved in using existing podcasts, techniques of interviewing, and even
creating your own!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • General Music
  New Technology Ensemble - Where to Start?

With an increasing number of our students making music with laptops, iPads, Garage Band, and other software/hardware tools, how do we create meaningful group musical experiences outside of the traditional ensemble models? Join Dr. Elisabeth Stimpert and the University of Central Missouri's groundbreaking New Technologies Ensemble for a demonstration concert/clinic that explores the exciting possibilities of embracing tech in an ensemble context.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • General Music
  The Art of Drumset & Technology

This clinic will give you a very detailed grasp of how to retain information through music technology (Ensemble Block). I will demonstrate how I help my students retain information given within the classroom and how it can translate into their practice habits.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • General Music
  For Those About To Rock… Starting a rock band in your school.

Modern Band is a genre of school music ensembles and classes based in the music of the rock and roll period (1950s - present). The presentation will share methods and resources for incorporating this vibrant genre in your school’s music program.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Reading Session

Music and tips for your choirs from our All State Children's Choir Director Sophia Papoulis

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Tried and True tips, tricks and games for your classes!

Come and experience a rotation of 4 corners from MO teachers. Tips, tricks or games will be shared with you in 15 minutes. Participants will play and take back ideas for your classes this week!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Music in Our Schools Month
  Visible Learning + Competency Based Learning + Music = WHAT?!

Visible Learning and Competency Based Learning seem to be the big push right now, but how in the world do we make the music world
fit that world? With a little bit of luck (and perhaps a dash of pixie dust) you will see that it's not as complicated as it seems. Hear how
this clinician has figured out how to use tools like SeeSaw and the Google Suite to provide evidence to students and families that
demonstrate student growth throughout the year. Also learn how to develop an easy quarterly student tracker for your students to fill
out that allow them to know where they are, where they are headed, and where they need to go next in their musical progress.
This takes the responsibility of growth out of the teacher's hands and places it in the student's hands. There will also be a time that
allows the participants to ask questions and to be honest about their thoughts in the whole visible learning/CBL world. It can be a lot
to digest and sometimes just talking to someone who truly understands can turn the "miserable" into "I can do this".

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Pass it Along: Music Class Passing Games that Reinforce Rhythmic Learning

"Pass it Along" will feature a number of passing games that develop hand-eye coordination, rhythmic stability, and general musicianship.
The presentation is a hands-on workshop that will provide participants the opportunity to play, sing, create, and discover fun activities to
reinforce music learning in the music classroom.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Bridging the Gap: Bringing Music and Literacy Together in the Elementary Classroom

Have you wanted to integrate music into other subjects, but didn’t know where to start? In this session, Katie and Lauren will model how a
music specialist and general education teacher collaborate to align music and literacy standards equally in an arts-integrated read-aloud lesson.
We will end the session with tips on collaborating and building a partnership between music specialists and general education teachers.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  From the Mountains: A Look at Folk Songs and Games from the Ozarks

A collection of jump rope rhymes and Ozark folk songs and applicable activities that can be used in the Ozark classroom!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • General Music
  Musician of the Month Project

Do you want your classroom listening examples to better reflect the diversity of our world? Are you ready to challenge the prevailing Euro-centric bias in most music curricula? Participants in this session will learn how to design and implement a sequential, culturally responsive listening curriculum that is relevant to your students using the Musician of the Month model. Session content will also include responsible research practices for unit planning, effective listening activities for all ages, connecting musical elements to listening examples, and providing cultural/historical context in the classroom.
6-12 (this workshop will focus on listening activities for secondary students)

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Musician of the Month Project

Do you want your classroom listening examples to better reflect the diversity of our world? Are you ready to challenge the prevailing Euro-centric bias in most music curricula? Participants in this session will learn how to design and implement a sequential, culturally responsive listening curriculum that is relevant to your students using the Musician of the Month model. Session content will also include responsible research practices for unit planning, effective listening activities for all ages, connecting musical elements to listening examples, and providing cultural/historical context in the classroom.
Two sessions will be offered:
K-5 (this workshop will focus on listening activities for elementary students)

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  It's DRUMTASTIC!

Session participants will experience the interplay of music, rhythm, and movement through a hands-on introduction to Drums Alive
DRUMTASTIC. This program is the original fitness, health, wellness program based on science and research that provides a
"Brain and Body" workout. DRUMTASTIC combines drumming, movement, and cognition through a multi-modular approach.
Come ready to move and rock the beat in this engaging session!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Storybooks for Diverse Classrooms

It’s a good time to review the storybooks in your classroom, to be sure that all the students in your classes with see themselves in
the story. This session will share lessons for some beautiful storybooks that will have your students singing, playing, moving, reading,
writing, creating. Your students will be inspired to reach for a star!

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Singing Games to Learn, Create & Have Fun!

In this session Denise will share new singing games and some new ways to play old favorites! Singing games get your students
singing, moving, creating and learning many musical concepts! You’ll play Toss and Catch, Tap and Grab, and more new games.
Games from diverse cultures and genres will help to be inclusive for all learners. You’ll get many ideas for engaging ways to teach
kids music reading, writing, and listening. In this session, we will sing, move, dance and play games and dances to become better
musicians. We’ll have fun reading, writing, improvising and creating because EVERY game teaches many concepts and skills.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Dance, Sing & Play Around the World

Enrich your music classes with dances, singing games,instrument fun and songs from around the world. In this session you will move,
sing, listen, and play songs that your students will really enjoy. These classroom tested activities will teach many concepts and skills
and will be a rich cultural experience for your students.

  • Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes)
  • Early Childhood/Elementary
  Recorders Rock!

Do you love teaching recorder or does it just give you a big headache? In this session, we’ll make great music with recorders -
with no headaches! Denise will share tips and tricks that helped her students become amazing recorder players, and will share ways
to use the creative process when teaching recorder. We’ll try some jazz recorder pieces and improvising on recorders!

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