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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.

Annual MMEA Meeting for MOAJE Members

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Bring your instrument and Sit In! Everyone is Welcome

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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".

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.

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)

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!

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.

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!