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Entries for 2025 MMEA Clinic/Session Proposal Form
Clinic/Session Category | Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Clinic Presentation for (MMEA Area): | Title of Clinic/Session | Clinic/Session Description |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Competition or Collaboration: Is comparison the thief of Joy? |
American Idol, The Voice, The Masked Singer, All-District, All-State….the list of competitions is vast. Our culture loves a contest. How does this competition culture effect music education? What lessons are we instilling in our musical ensembles? Can true artistic creativity happen within the parameters of competition? |
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College/University | Research to Practice: Applications of Music Education Research |
During this session, university professors and classroom music educators will discuss their research and the applications for teaching. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI): Opportunities and Challenges for Music Education |
The emergence of GAI in society holds both potential benefits and challenges for music education. This session will provide examples of how music educators are using GAI to enhance instruction and student learning and discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with GAI. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Orchestra | Right Place, Right Time: Clarifying your Conducting |
Clear conducting is essential to producing excellent, expressive ensemble sound and protecting precious rehearsal time. In this session, we will examine the structure of the beat, when to expect sound, how to maintain a flow of time, and how different kinds of beats can be applied to various situations in order to be helpful to your ensemble in both rehearsal and performance settings. Instruments and batons are encouraged. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Harmonizing Progress: Innovations in Music Theory for Secondary Instrumental Ensembles |
Explore cutting-edge strategies for integrating music theory into secondary instrumental ensembles. From engaging introductory methods to advanced applications, this presentation delves into progressive techniques aimed at enhancing students' musical understanding and performance. Discover innovative approaches that foster a deeper connection between theory and practice, empowering young musicians to develop their skills with confidence and creativity. Join us as we harmonize tradition with innovation in the pursuit of musical excellence. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Orchestra | Sound and structure: exploring violin bow technique |
A variety of exercises, schools, texts and more will be discussed in order to provide practical tools that can help produce good right hand setups, leading to better sound and usage of the bow. Specific topics will include promoting comfort in the lower half of the bow, flexibility in changes of direction, and producing curved fourth fingers, plus much more. Bringing instruments and bows is strongly encouraged. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Developing Independent Musicianship in the Choral Classroom |
The objective of this interactive clinic is to provide strategies and immediately useful materials for helping our next generation of choral musicians gain the skills they need while allowing them to discover the joy and artistry of choral singing. Session includes: research related to pitch-matching, singing accuracy, audiation, and aural independence; selected choral warm-ups designed for building independence; concert-worthy canons, rounds, and partners songs; and selected choral repertoire for developing choirs. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Centering Fundamentals in Your Middle School Band |
You know that fundamentals are vital for your band’s success, but how can you build bands that are fundamentally sound while meeting the demands of your performance calendar? In this session, we will share our solutions for prioritizing tone, rhythmic accuracy, and ensemble skills while keeping students engaged. These techniques combine resources we have created to fit our program with methods from some of the best middle school band programs in the country. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Music Theory in Practice |
How can you apply what you learned in music theory class to create engaging rehearsals? This clinic will explore practical strategies to bring music to life for your students and set the stage for long term musical growth by founding your rehearsals on musical understanding. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | WOW! Window of our World! An overview of the Missouri Arts Education Data Project, its impact and next steps. |
Explore the Missouri Arts Education Data Project dashboards and learn how this powerful tool can be used to inform decision-making and the next steps in data collection and reporting to strengthen music education in our state. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Equity | One of my students is Transgender. Now what? |
Being transgender is nothing new, however, navigating what to do after a student comes out to you can be something new. In this clinic, MSU graduate student and transgender man Brandon Geiger will give you a view on life as a transgender person, what to do (and not do) when a student comes out to you, and how to best support them in this tense time. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Empowering Singers: Cultivating Individual Artistry within the Choral Ensemble |
As choral directors, how can we encourage individual artistry within the choral rehearsal and inspire singers to make musical decisions? To achieve a high level of excellence and singer engagement, we can implement an array of rehearsal strategies that empower the singers to make creative choices and contribute their own ideas. With the musical score as the guide, participants will explore teaching strategies that increase singer engagement, encourage rehearsal efficiency, and infuse musicality from the beginning of the learning process. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Creating a Home: Building Community in the Choral Ensemble |
How do we, as choral directors, provide a space that both honors the individual while also working to create a cohesive community? With concerts and performances on the horizon, it can be challenging to balance both the social and the musical engagement within the choral rehearsal, especially in the digital age where technology intentionally holds our singers’ attention. This session will focus on activities that build community and encourage individuals through engaging activities, careful repertoire selection, and collaborative rehearsal strategies. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | You Belong Here: Recruiting and Retaining Singers in the Choral Program |
As choral directors, we are always exploring ways to recruit and retain singers in school choral ensembles. In this interactive session, the clinician will share strategies to build and grow a choral program in the following areas: 1) exploring program structure to meet the needs of the community/school; 2) identifying and connecting with prospective singers; and 3) creating engaging musical experiences that encourage singer retention. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Alternative Music Notation as a Means to Increase Access to Band |
This session will cover a variety of alternative music notation practices and resources. After a history of the practice as well as a survey of some of the most popular resources, the focus of the presentation will turn to Instru_Tunes, a free video series. This is a parallel curriculum that supplements method books. The presenter has created music videos where colors represent pitch and the length of the animated rectangle represents length. The videos work with concert and transposing instruments. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Silence is Golden - Maximize Non-Verbal Communication to Create More Efficient Rehearsals |
We all know that students come to play and not to hear us constantly talk in rehearsals. In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate conducting techniques that will allow you to maximize student musicianship while limiting verbal communication. Bring your batons and let’s grow together! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Yours, Mine, and Ours: Stronger Together! |
Join us to learn about current legislative issues impacting music education, public policy, and the work of the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own postcards for sending arts ed friendly messages to policy makers and stakeholders. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Picture the Music: Inspire Creativity Together! |
Join Jessica Ingraham, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's Director of Education, and Cynthia Williams Phelps, Missouri Alliance for Arts Education’s Director of Professional Learning, to engage in mindful listening and expressive art activities. Ingraham will introduce the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's cross-curricular arts program, Picture the Music, for students in grades K-6. Attendees will learn scaffolded lesson ideas to make the creative process less intimidating and help students build confident music listening skills. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Picture the Music: Inspire Creativity Together! |
Join Jessica Ingraham, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's Director of Education, and Cynthia Williams Phelps, Missouri Alliance for Arts Education’s Director of Professional Learning, to engage in mindful listening and expressive art activities. Ingraham will introduce the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's cross-curricular arts program, Picture the Music, for students in grades K-6. Attendees will learn scaffolded lesson ideas to make the creative process less intimidating and help students build confident music listening skills. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Select MMEA Area | Exploring Creativity in the Beginning Band through Collaborative Composition |
The Missouri Learning Standards list creativity as essential in music making. This session provides strategies for beginning band directors to engage their students in creative music making through collaborative composition activities. These activities can be used in tandem with current curricula. Though this session is focused more for beginning ensembles these strategies could be used in middle school and high school ensembles. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Exploring Creativity in the Beginning Band through Improvisation |
The Missouri Learning Standards list creativity as essential in music making. This session provides strategies for beginning band directors to engage their students in creative music making through ensemble improvisation activities. These activities can be used in tandem with current curricula . Though this session is focused more for beginning ensembles these strategies could be used in middle school and high school ensembles. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Chamber Music Strategies |
The UMKC Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet will present this clinic on empowering young players to utilize concrete approaches and strategies to successfully embark upon chamber music endeavors. This clinic will give guidance to young musicians and their teachers regarding successfully encouraging and developing leadership, teamwork, listening skills and musicianship within a chamber music setting. The quintet members will also discuss how the same concepts that make for great chamber music will further enhance students’ large ensemble performance skills. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Revitalize Your Choral Warm Up Routine: Best Practices to Build Technique and Develop Community |
This session will explore best practices in creating a vocal warm-up sequence for rehearsal that develops musicianship, complements repertoire, and cultivates community. Teachers will leave this session with intentional warm-ups for a variety of choral settings. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | Jazz Stuff (Title to be developed later if either option is chosen) |
Jazz Ensemble Curriculum Development OR Implementing a rotational rhythm section |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Surviving to Thriving: Teaching at Small Schools and Loving It! |
Talking about how to successfully handle a small 1a preK-12 program. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | A Deep Dive Inside The [Terrifying] Mind of The Young Percussionist: ...Keeping the “crazy kids in back” engaged by learning how they think. |
While this is a "percussion clinic," it is geared toward band directors who are NOT percussionists. We'll touch on a number of topics, but the goal will be to make (non-percussionist) directors feel more confident in front of their percussion sections and to mediate the ever-so-frangible relationship between percussionists and their directors. Over the course of 60 minutes, you'll learn all about what's going on inside the minds of your young percussion section. And, after learning how they think, we'll make a plan that sets your percussion section (and, in turn, your entire band) up for better engagement and more efficient musical growth. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Music For All: Activities and Planning for Optimal Learning, Joy, and Management |
Rene and Vicky will share Kodaly-inspired music class songs, games, and learning activities that optimize positive classroom management and learning goals. Session focus will include activities that keep 4th and 5th grade music students engaged, learning, and excited to learn! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Music Lessons for All: 2nd & 3rd Grade Lesson Planning for Optimal Learning, Classroom Management, and Joyful Experiences |
Vicky and Rene' will share Kodaly-Inspired lesson planning tips, songs, and games that help create increased success with classroom management and learning goals. Session focus will include activities for second- and third-grade music classes. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Circle 'Round the Music Room: K-1 Music Lesson Planning for Optimal Learning, Management, and Joy! |
Rene' and Vicky will share lesson planning ideas, songs, and games that help with classroom management and learning goals. The focus of this session will be on activities for the kindergarten and first grade music classrooms based upon Kodaly-Inspired Learning. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Orchestra | Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass: Clarifying a Neglected Resource |
Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass by George Vance has gained substantial popularity in the bass community since its publication in 2000 and is now a primary resource utilized by many private instructors. Heterogeneous classroom teachers tend to avoid Progressive Rep due to its controversial fingerings and new positions. Learn to use this resource to your advantage to develop thumb position, access solo repertoire, and condense complicated positions for your double bass players! |
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Band | Rhythm of the Day - Breaking things down in Beginning Band |
Beginning Band students can be overwhelmed by reading notation and turning it into music. Isolating certain parts of notation will help students be more successful and progress faster. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | College/University | Musical Taboo: Injuries, Beta-blocker use, and Staying Healthy |
Most musicians will sustain an injury at some point. Injuries can happen early, and prevalence increases as one's career advances. Musicians have also been known to use beta-blockers to calm nerves for auditions, but not without controversy. Led by the founder of the Stanford University Performing Arts Medicine Program, this interactive presentation will review common and uncommon musician injuries, use of beta blockers in musicians, explore ways to avoid injury, and end with a question and answer session. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Research | Musical Taboo: Injuries, Beta-blocker use, and Staying Healthy |
Most musicians will sustain an injury at some point. Injuries can happen early, and prevalence increases as one's career advances. Musicians have also been known to use beta-blockers to calm nerves for auditions, but not without controversy. Led by the founder of the Stanford University Performing Arts Medicine Program, this interactive presentation will review common and uncommon musician injuries, use of beta blockers in musicians, explore ways to avoid injury, and end with a question and answer session. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Nurturing Young Neurodivergent Singers |
This workshop aims to equip voice teachers with tools and insights for effectively engaging and supporting young, neurodivergent singers. Participants will explore strategies for creating inclusive learning environments, adapting teaching approaches, and leveraging the unique strengths of neurodivergent students. Key topics include understanding neurodiversity, establishing rapport, tailoring instructional methods, addressing challenges, and promoting social-emotional well-being. Through interactive discussions and practical exercises, attendees will gain a comprehensive toolkit for fostering the musical growth and personal development of neurodivergent singers. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Baton Mastery: Refining Your Conducting Skills for Optimal Ensemble Response |
This interactive clinic will provide practical conducting tips to enhance your band's performance. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Drum Corps Pedagogy & Procedures at Home: Super Simple! |
Drum corps have spent decades honing efficiency in their rehearsals and techniques, and we all deserve a piece of that. How do drum corps run their rehearsals? What is the day-1 approach to drum corps brass pedagogy? Is visual pedagogy a myth, and what happens if we treat it like it is? What’s changed in the last 30 years? Learn simple excises and concepts to apply at home that will speed up rehearsals, improve retention, and help your students avoid injuries. |
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Equity | Our Band Out-Earns Me: Ethical Fundraising in a Title I Community |
Young musicians need equipment, music, and experiences, but these have a cost. Fundraising ALSO has a cost – to your community! Is ethical fundraising in economically disadvantaged communities possible? How do we do it? Hear about (and discuss) grants, fundraisers & firms, profit margins, and administrative advocacy in Houston and see how more than $90,000 has been earned and spent since 2020. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | KoroNation: A Culturally Informed Filipino Repertoire Session |
As Filipino choral music gains popularity in conference programs and all-state programs, it's essential to provide ensembles with pertinent geography, history, language pronunciation, and composer knowledge as we expand the repertoire we perform. Participants will delve into Filipino pieces using the presenter’s Choral Allyship Framework for performing music from other cultures, enhancing understanding and process in each concert cycle. Attendees will hear the presenters offer insight on each piece's context in Filipino choral music and provide Tagalog diction coaching. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Musical Independence: Where Content Meets Classroom Culture |
Musical independence should be the goal of any instrumental music classroom, but motivating students to be independent while also meeting curricular goals can be a complex and challenging road. This clinic will share hands-on, realistic strategies for actively teaching students toward independent musical decision-making via a strong pedagogical structure that leverages positive classroom culture. The intersection of these topics with literature selection, classroom management, and student leadership will also be discussed. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Music Student Mental Health: Methods to Navigate the Realities of Our Unique Population |
Mental health issues commonly found among music students will be shared along with tangible, realistic strategies to assist with helping students in crisis while also not contributing to their mental health burden. To go beyond the generalized training most teachers experience in school-wide PD sessions, this session will be facilitated by a current college band director who previously had 13 years of 6-12 teaching experience and a Licensed Professional Counselor from the same institution who regularly interacts with music students. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | The Dream Team: Social Emotional Learning, Picture Books, and Music! |
Gain a new understanding of social emotional learning as it applies to our students today. Main will provide tools, activities, and children's book recommendations for helping our students learn to handle big feelings through our music curriculum and interact with their peers in our musical space. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Utilizing Voice Pedagogy Principles in the Choral Classroom |
Establishing basic foundations rooted in Voice Pedagogy can set your High School or Junior High choir up for continued success. Through the lens of vocal technique, we will tackle common problems for choirs including: support, tuning, tongue tension, creating unified vowels, and onsets. The workshop will provide a brief recap of the voice pedagogy concepts covered, offer helpful ways of explaining these concepts to your students, and include exercises for frequent use in choral rehearsals to reinforce the techniques learned. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | MMEA | President Approved | Strategies for Teaching Group Piano in Middle and High School |
Learning piano with peers is incredibly effective! Yet, how can we maximize the advantages of middle and high school beginning group piano? Explore strategies and activities for developing a steady pulse, mind-hand coordination, ear-training, note reading, and functional harmony. Discover efficient ways to toggle between solo and group time in class. Gain insights on the value of improvisation, short ensemble pieces, and games. Tips for teaching, reviewing and grading theory will be shared, as well as constructive evaluation. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Narratives, Not Themes - Using Programming To Serve The Singers, Audience, And Story You Want To Tell |
Themed concerts, although common, don’t typically change the concert experience: We listen, applaud, and repeat. What if we provided fewer applause breaks while grouping pieces to create thought-provoking, interactive concert experiences? This session introduces Narrative Programming, a practice that emphasizes story-telling for performers and audiences. Presenters include a singer and director who have used Narrative Programming, who will share a Narrative Programming framework that includes methodologies for providing singers agency, increasing feelings of Diversity and Inclusion, and incorporating undercelebrated music! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Mentoring | Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education |
Dr. Matthew Arau has created an incredible program for music educators. A former band director himself, he is a dynamic speaker and has amazing tips for how to integrate mindfulness and mindset into the secondary music ensemble setting, as well as how to develop leaders in your music ensemble. His book "Upbeat" is an excellent tool to get started, has life-changing advice for the music educator regarding work-life balance, and is chalk-full of encouragement and wisdom! |
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Mentoring | Things I Wish I Knew as a Young Director |
We want to help young teachers learn from the best! Come to our round table discussion on the challenges for the young band, orchestra, and choir director. Presenters will discuss tips and approaches to make teaching easier for the young director and will share words of wisdom from their years of experience. Will include Q&A session where audience members can ask questions to the panel of seasoned veterans. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | NAfME-Collegiate | The Future Band Director’s Top Ten: What You Can Do NOW Before You Start Your First Job |
This clinic presents a "top ten" for pre-service music educators preparing for their first job in the classroom as an instrumental music instructor. After a combined 40 years of experience, and the responses from 50 reputable band directors, the "top ten" list was generated to encourage and assist college students to focus their learning and skillset before entering the profession. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Marches...Again? How To Create Excitement and Originality in Your Next March Performance. |
Not sure what you can change in a march? Find them boring and uninspiring? Do your students groan each time you distribute a march? If so, this clinic is for you! We’ll help you breathe new life into each march with a better understanding of what you can and can’t do. Heck, your French horns may like them, too! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Rehearsal Rehab: Transform Habits and Rock Your Routine |
Feeling stuck in your daily fundamentals routine with your band? Notice students zoning out or not understanding WHY they have to continue playing those long tones or scales? This session will explore the components that create our daily routines, the purposes of each exercise, and how to approach each drill with a fresh set of ears and perspective. Our goal is to provide you more tools to promote maximum student learning and personal growth within your ensemble. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | The Introverted Singer - Underrated and Understated |
How many times have you thought …What a great kid! I just wish they would sing out. Or….You have such a nice voice, why won't you try out for a solo? This session will focus on the role of introverts in the choral program. We will discuss the value “quiet” students bring to the classroom, examine our unintentional bias towards extroverts, and learn how to create a safe space for the introverted singer. We will also explore the challenge of being an introverted teacher and how to find solitude in the cacophony of the music classroom. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Missouri Choral Directors Association (MCDA) | Culturally Informed World Percussion Choices for Choir |
This clinic will focus on making more culturally informed choices when including world percussion in choir performances. Whether interpreting written parts, or even just adding some percussion to enhance the performance, we can make choices that are more informed, and respectful of the culture we are trying to represent. A particular focus on the ABC's…African, Brazilian, Caribbean |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Small Program = Big Deal |
"Small Program = Big Deal" aims to empower educators with strategies to foster a growth mindset in their students. Beyond merely pushing for academic success, this session delves into the psychology of limiting beliefs and the impact they have on students' aspirations. By reframing challenges as opportunities for growth, educators can reignite the spark of ambition in their students, encouraging them to dream big and pursue their goals relentlessly. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | The "RCMS Rank System": A points-based system of individualized instruction for beginners. |
2020 Illinois State Teacher of the Year discusses his “RCMS Rank System” that is now being used by band directors globally. The Rank System is a point system that allows beginning instrumentalists to progress quickly at their own pace, and leads to fluency in sight reading skills. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Pick Up the Pieces: Music for Children Funkified |
Energize your teaching by combining Orff methods with the joy of Funk music. Explore with movement, body percussion from Rhythmische Ubung, tools for improvisation, and revamped classics from Music for Children. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Equity | Our Classrooms Are Poppin’: Creating Connections with Pop Tune Twists |
Incorporating pop music into elementary music classrooms can be a valuable tool for fostering musical literacy, cultural awareness, creativity, and joy among students. Let's join together for an electrifying exploration, where we'll discover ways to seamlessly integrate the pop music your students love with essential musical concepts. You'll be equipped with practical lessons and activities tailored to support the preparation, presentation, and practice of the musical concepts for your K-6th grade students. Let’s create dynamic and meaningful musical experiences that empower students to see themselves reflected in our classrooms as they learn. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Multicultural | Authentically Pronouncing Latinx Names |
Are you an English-only speaking teacher who struggles with your Latinx students’ names, and stresses during roll call each August? Participants in our session will learn how to authentically pronounce Spanish-sounding names and how to ask for guidance in pronouncing a student’s name correctly. We will cover pronunciation pointers, and why Latinx names may sound different than other names on the roster. Let’s learn why pronouncing these names correctly is important for affirming each student's identity and background! |
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MSHSAA | MSHSAA Music Advisory Round Table Discussion and Open Forum |
This round table discussion will be an introduction and two-way discussion with the MSHSAA Music Advisory Committee. Allowing MMEA attendees of MSHSAA Member Schools to better understand the MSHSAA governance process, ask questions, raise concerns and discuss relevant topics that the advisory committee should consider as they help make recommendations impacting MSHSAA Music Activities. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | MSHSAA | MSHSAA Music Update |
This session will provide participants with relevant updates regarding the Missouri State High School Activities Association. Information to include music advisory subcommittee work group timelines, area meeting updates, by-law information, member school student participation, and music rules. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Neuroscience and Musical Development: Practical Implications for Music Education |
A basic understanding of neuroscience and music processing can help teachers fine tune instruction to better meet student needs and advocate for the place of music in the curriculum, since the research gives confidence that music education is not only important, but something necessary in the lives of our students. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | The Pillars of Music: Building True Community and Belonging |
Two simple words, “Be Musical” coupled with information about the power of belonging transformed my classroom, helping create a foundation for a community of (almost always) joyful musicians working together to create (almost always) low-stress music experiences. Come learn how you can put these principles to work in your classroom! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Folk Dance with a Twist: Adding Different Genres to the Mix |
Learn how adding different genres of music to the existing folk dance repertoire helps build buy-in for an activity already rich in authentic musical opportunities. This session will feature tons of movement, all of which you can use in your classroom right away! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Class Piano Starter Kit: How to Set Up a Successful Group Piano Curriculum |
Have you ever wanted to start a group piano curriculum but didn’t know where to begin? This session will provide a step-by-step guide for creating a group piano program from scratch, even if piano isn't your primary instrument. We'll cover essential skills, curriculum pacing, piano configuration, textbook options, testing strategies, ensemble ideas, collaborative activities, engaging games, and much more! Join us to gain the confidence and tools you need to successfully launch your new group piano class. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | Lead Sheets Made Easy! A Creative Approach for Teaching Contemporary Music Skills |
Lead sheets and chord charts offer a creative approach to teaching functional piano skills such as accompanying, harmonization, improvisation, music theory, and more. This contemporary pathway to making music is accessible to students of many ages and skill levels and can be implemented quickly, even when class time is limited. This interactive session will provide out-of-the-box strategies for chord-based instruction, including preparatory activities, games, methods, and other resources that will be valuable to music educators from a variety of backgrounds. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Research | What do the Parents Think? Parent Perspectives of Their Involvement in Public-School Instrumental Music Learning |
Parental involvement in their child’s schoolwork has been shown to affect student achievement and success in the classroom. Examining the lived experiences of parents through semi-structured interviews, this session is focused on how parents perceive their roles, help their student learn an instrument, and navigate the public-school band and orchestra program. This session will also discuss what targeted instruction music educators can do to foster a better home learning environment and emotional support roles for their music student. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Student Leaders that Actually WORK |
Tired of electing students leaders and then not seeing the "fruits of their labor?" Tired of being the sole director and desperately needing some help? How successful is your classroom when you're away? This session is to build leaders in your music program and to cultivate an expectation of excellence in reference student leadership. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | EnTrap Percussionists with Auxiliary Instruments |
Instrumental teachers spend hours focusing on the big two of percussion: drums and mallets. But what about the instruments where half of your percussion students may spend a tune? Instruments that can add the most color and impact to a performance? A review session on auxiliary percussion techniques, equipment, care, and management within a full ensemble rehearsal. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Creativity first: Reframing our priorities for a better band program |
Our job is to be artistic. As band directors, we have a habit of relegating our most creative tasks (score study, conducting, programing) into a category of “things to get to” each day- because we tend to place more menial tasks into a “get done first” category. This session explores this idea, and provides tips towards helping us prioritize daily artistry in our work with tips for quick score study, rehearsal planning, and personal artistic goals. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Multicultural | Highlighting the Careers of Notable Women Conductors |
This presentation will capture the lives and conducting careers of several notable pioneer women conductors through a series of short vignettes on each conductor. Featured conductors include Helen May Butler, Elfrida Andreé, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Emma Steiner, Caroline Nichols, Lina Coen, Antonia Louisa Brico, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Liza Redfield, and Margaret Rosezarian. This presentation coincides with the 30th Anniversary of the Missouri Women Band Directors Association. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Filling Your Toolbox for Effective Rehearsals |
No matter how knowledgeable you are about your craft, students need to have the right mindset to learn. Cumberledge will offer tips and techniques that will result in fun and effective rehearsals. You will leave the clinic with new tools to use in your classroom. Topics include culture/climate, the beginning year, and ensemble strategies. |
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Multicultural | The Importance of Creating Opportunities for Student Cultural Expression Through Music |
In April 2024, a group of high school students under the Asian American Civic Scholars nonprofit organized the inaugural Very Asian Concert in St. Louis. This concert showcased talented youth musicians in the area to share their Asian heritage through ethnic instruments, music, and more. Most importantly, the lasting results of the concert highlight the significance of allowing cultural self-expression through music. These kinds of opportunities create a medium for visibility and inclusion in which students can actively participate. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Authenticity in Music Education |
This session will explore the following questions: 1. What is authenticity and why is it important? What does it look like in a professional setting? 2. How do we become more authentic educators? |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Missouri Bandmasters Association (MBA) | Step off the podium and CREATE! |
Ms. O'Hara and Ms. McMahon offer ideas to encourage student creativity from the traditional music rehearsal setting. These ideas will enhance engagement, comprehension and retention to improve time on the podium by stepping off the podium. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Step off the Podium and CREATE! |
Ms. O'Hara and Ms. McMahon offer ideas to encourage student creativity from the traditional music rehearsal setting. These ideas will enhance engagement, comprehension and retention to improve time on the podium by stepping off the podium. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Expressive Conducting: Practical Tips for Expressive Gesture and Performance |
Expressive communication is essential for all musician in an ensemble, including the conductor! In this session, we’ll move beyond conducting when events happen, and provide tools to effectively conduct how and why events happen, opening possibilities for efficient and effective communication of artistic intent in rehearsals and performance. Join us as we examine ways to practice your expressive conducting, train your ensemble to be more sensitive to your gesture, and apply these skills to common band repertoire. Batons are encouraged! |
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Band | Percussion Discussion |
Come ask us your questions! This will be a guided roundtable discussion about various percussion topics. Do you have questions about beginning percussion pedagogy, best-practices, instrument maintenance, storage solutions, starting a percussion ensemble, or anything percussion related? Let us help you and your students! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Something for Everyone: Rejuvenating General Music Class for Modern Students |
This session will provide ideas and strategies to diversify and differentiate the general music classroom and make it more appealing and relevant for modern students. Topics covered will include goal setting for general music classes, lesson/curriculum ideas, resource and strategy suggestions, and inspiring creativity. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Ensemble Clarity vs. Musical Nuance: Can they Coexist? |
One of our biggest roles as a band director is to have quality ensemble performances. We will explore the importance of musical cleanliness as well as musical artistry. The clinic will focus on tried-and-true techniques where both can be present. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Which comes first...Culture or Achievement? |
This session will focus on the culture we set in our music classroom. It will focus on how culture and achievement both exist in our music classroom, and both must be considered every day. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Re-Spoking the Wheel The Implementation of Jazz-Centric Programs in Small Schools |
Many small schools struggle with enrollment and financial constraints as they maintain instrumental music programs; challenges that persist even when these programs exceed state averages for ensemble participation. One curricular approach to address these challenges is the use of flexible-instrumentation arrangements, but this may result in reduced musical rigor. This research proposes that small school programs replace concert ensembles as the core curriculum with jazz ensembles in order to take full advantage of available population and increase musical rigor. |
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Jazz | Warmups for Your Jazz Ensemble |
A short warmup session every day can lead to meaningful improvement over time for any ensemble, and jazz groups are no exception. We will look at ways to target various musical aspects including style, articulation, rhythm, time feel, intonation, balance, listening around the ensemble, and improvisation. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | All You Need Is One Note: How Limitations Can Inspire Creativity |
We’re often taught that you need to learn more licks, arpeggios, theory, and tunes to become a better improviser. Instead of focusing on what you haven’t learned yet, why not use what you already know right NOW? Setting limitations, at any point in your development, can inspire creativity and force you to play outside of the box. This session will cater to any educator that wishes to incorporate simple, yet effective exercises that engage your students through thoughtful experimentation and improvisation. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | So You Want to Commission a Piece... Now What? |
Commissioning a new work by a living composer is a daunting but rewarding experience for your students. Have you wanted to commission a brand new piece for your band and have no idea where to start? This session will reflect on the lived experiences of both the band director and the composer moving through the commissioning process. It will also provide tangible guidelines to better prepare you for your commissioning journey. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Working Backwards: Starting with Your Rep |
Everyone starts their rehearsal with warm-ups, but have you considered working backwards? You can kill THREE birds with one stone by using your rep to create relevant warm-ups, sight-reading excerpts, AND get a head start on new literature. In this session, we’ll walk through the process of breaking down your repertoire to influence your rehearsal which will save you valuable teaching time. You’lll walk away with strategies for an effective rehearsal and lots of resources to bring into your rehearsal. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Marching Band Caption Sheets Defined |
This clinic will be presented with the purpose of clearly defining the eight various caption sheets that adjudicators use in the competitive marching band arena. Terminology and philosophies of the judging systems will be presented, along with point differentials. Caption sheet examples from local, regional, and national festivals will be presented as examples. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Teaching Intonation in the Instrumental Ensemble: Using Technology to Improve Tuning |
Directors often ask students to listen to their intonation, but do students actually understand what it means to play in tune? Without various reference points, identifying out of tune notes may pose a significant challenge for young players. In this clinic, Dr. Denis will discuss tips and tricks for using technology, such as the Harmony Director and Tonal Energy, to teach students to identify/correct intonation aurally and perform ‘in tune’. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Conquer your Intermediate Band! - with “Make It Happen!” A new approach for YOUR developing band |
I would like to provide band directors with helpful materials and strategies to assist them in teaching their intermediate bands. “Make It Happen!” band method is a full-year, method for 2nd/3rd year young band musicians. It is engaging and based on constant repetition, allowing your musicians to achieve the next level of playing successfully while still being enjoyable and engaging. Finally, a Book II that works for kids, using constant repetition… how kids truly learn! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Conquer your Intermediate Band! - with “Make It Happen!” A new approach for YOUR developing band |
I would like to provide band directors with helpful materials and strategies to assist them in teaching their intermediate bands. “Make It Happen!” band method is a full-year, method for 2nd/3rd year young band musicians. It is engaging and based on constant repetition, allowing your musicians to achieve the next level of playing successfully while still being enjoyable and engaging. Finally, a Book II that works for kids, using constant repetition… how kids truly learn! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Technology | Decoding the Notes: Time Saving Sight Reading Strategies for All |
Would you like your rehearsals and classes to be more efficient, productive, and enjoyable? By implementing five powerful sight reading strategies that are explored using Sight Reading Factory in this session, educators can support students of all abilities, inclusive of new readers and diverse learners, maximize music literacy results, and transform the music classroom to boost efficiency, productivity, and overall enjoyment. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Handling Organization and Classroom Management in the Elementary Classroom |
This session will focus on ways elementary educators can take control of their time by giving tips and tricks for being better organized. It will also focus on handling classroom management struggles in the elementary music classroom. These two issues are often directly linked to one another; when the teacher is unprepared it shows in the way their classroom is run and we want to help everyone be more successful in their day to day practices. This sessions would be especially helpful for the beginning music educator. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Sounds We Hate: Simple Adjustments to Elevate the Performance of the Percussion Section |
Sometimes little changes can make a huge impact. This session will guide you through simple adjustments that can be made in the percussion section to ensure that students are producing the most appropriate sounds possible. Demonstrations will include implement selection, instrument placement, approach, and most definitely crash cymbal technique! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Technique Building 101: 2 Mallets, 4 Mallets, & Concert Snare |
In a hands-on approach, we will take you step-by-step through the techniques and basic stroke types for 2 mallets, 4 mallets, and concert snare. We’ll provide the sticks and mallets! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Hands-on Percussion Repair |
Rotating through three stations (snare, timpani, and mallets), we will demonstrate changing and tuning heads, muffling snares, adjusting timpani pedals, setting gauges, changing the string on mallet instruments, fixing the vibraphone pedal, and more – and you’re going to get up close and personal and do it with us! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Starting a Percussion Ensemble: The Beginning for Beginners |
Getting the percussion students out of the back of the room and into a percussion ensemble setting is essential to their development as well-rounded, independent musicians. In a part-clinic, part-reading session format, we will demonstrate accessible, beginning percussion ensemble literature, and discuss ways to implement a percussion ensemble into a variety of band structures. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | The Anti-Green Project: A Guide to Selecting Modern Percussion Literature so we can Stop Recycling |
This clinic will serve as a guide to selecting quality percussion solo and ensemble literature, PML and beyond, for beginning through advanced players. We will dive into resources for finding new music and discovering new composers, provide examples of great literature, and discuss solutions for instrument substitutions, limited instrumentation, flexible number of players, and space and time constraints. |
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Jazz | Starting off your Beginning Jazz Band with C Jam Blues |
An introduction to how I use C Jam Blues to introduce my beginning jazz students to the swing feel, improvisation, chord changes, and transposition. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | Timing is Everything: A Rhythmic Approach to Improvisation |
This session is intended to free the student from worrying about melodic and harmonic motives during their solo. Rather, it focuses on 1 to 4 note motives and playing with proper time and good rhythm. This step by step approach improves students internal time, and motivic development. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | Let's Play! Simple Exercises to Get Your Students Improvising |
This session will discuss four different exercises to help make improvisation more comfortable for your students. These exercises can be used as warm ups, larger projects, or supplemental material within the context of a song. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | NAfME-Collegiate | From the Bookstore Backyard: Storytime Ideas in Music Class |
There is a plethora of children’s books that have been published, but many do not seem to lend themselves to a music class. Through Dr. Stafford’s experience incorporating music into her sessions as the storytime facilitator for an independent bookstore, attendees will gain ideas on using literature in music class that are easily adaptable and that students can learn quickly. Dr. Stafford will focus on children’s books by Missouri authors. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | From the Bookstore Backyard: Storytime Ideas in Music Class |
There is a plethora of children’s books that have been published, but many do not seem to lend themselves to a music class. Through Dr. Stafford’s experience incorporating music into her sessions as the storytime facilitator for an independent bookstore, attendees will gain ideas on using literature in music class that are easily adaptable and that students can learn quickly. Dr. Stafford will focus on children’s books by Missouri authors. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | From Ella to Elling: What To Tell Your Jazz Vocalist |
When a singer enters the band room and picks up a microphone, several things can happen (only some of which are good). In this session, we’ll consider what matters most when working with young vocalists, including a step-by-step process that covers who and what they should be listening to before they ever see the music to weaning them off pianos and part tracks. You might even have them singing in time and in the written key! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Three Pieces for the Olympics |
In this session participants will experience three pieces of music: "Bugler's Dream," "Chariots of Fire," and "Highland Cathedral." Pieces are arranged for Orff instruments, tubano drums, untuned percussion, recorder, and voice. Rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic concepts utilized in the music are appropriate for upper elementary students and can be differentiated for use by students of varying abilities. Movement, form, and performance ideas will be included. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Move and Groove: Modern Ideas for Movement in the Music Room |
Looking for new ways to incorporate movement in your music class? In this session, we will explore how to combine modern ideas with traditional movement. You'll leave with a toolbox of ideas to take back to your classroom! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Rhythm Revolution: Transforming Rhythmic Literacy in Your Classroom |
Unlock the power of rhythm and ignite a revolution in your music classroom! Join us for a dynamic session designed to transform the way you engage your students in music making. In this session, we’ll explore the use of innovative tools such as visuals, speech, body percussion, and movement to support students’ rhythmic learning. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | College/University | Is Composition still a relevant field for music majors? |
Are you a professor that is finding it hard to find composition majors? Are you a young aspiring composer who senses "composition" is a decadent activity that you need to relegate to the side? Are you an educator who has students who want to create music, but have no idea how to realize that dream? Digging into the history of composers, this presentation demonstrates how a composition degree affords opportunities and perspectives unique to the musical journey. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Engaging the Other 80% |
It’s time to prove that music is for everyone! Using technology and creativity we can increase critical thinking in the music classroom. There are so many paths we can take in music. In this session, we will get honest with our assumptions about music and learn to grow. It is time to show our students nonperformance music opportunities that could grow into a passion. This is the answer to the time-old student statement, “I’ll never use this in real life!” |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Effective and Efficient Theory and Performance Assessment Practices |
Always running out of time to assess theory or sight-reading? Do you spend too much time reminding students of pitch letters, or maybe how to identify solfege syllables? This session shows how to integrate basic theory (solfege, pitch, rhythm and interval identification, major and minor key signatures, along with aural audiation and rhythmic dictation without losing entire class periods to theory review. Make your singers stronger musicians by utilizing this process of daily theory! In this session, ways to quickly assess and provide feedback for student sight-reading and repertoire is also discussed. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | "Programming on a Budget - Creative Ideas for Finding Repertoire that Works for YOUR Ensemble!" |
This clinic offers insights on selecting repertoire through conventional and out-of-the-box solutions within budget, schedule, and personnel constraints. Strategies include utilizing and customizing public domain works, arranging existing pieces for unique instrumentations, exploring lesser-performed composers and works, and taking another look at the classics and hidden gems that may already exist in your library. Attendees will leave equipped with practical methods to build engaging rehearsals and performances, fostering ingenuity and resourcefulness in music selection. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Something old, new, borrowed, and YOU! A recipe for programming meaning repertoire for concert bands |
Programming repertoire for bands is often stressful and many conductors/educators don't know where to begin. This session will look at a framework of programming that includes works that shaped the genre, pieces that are new to the genre, transcriptions that celebrate music originally intended for other ensembles, and works that say something about who you – you being the conductor and the performers – are as an ensemble. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Stage Ready: Nurturing Musical Theater Excellence in High School Singers |
In this session we will explore the benefits of cross-training techniques and equip educators with the tools to enhance student performers' versatility and resilience in musical theater singing styles. If you've ever wondered how to make the leap from teaching classical singing styles to musical theater singing styles, this session is for you! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Empowering the Stage: Strategies for Supporting Students Facing Music Performance Anxiety |
In this session we will take a look at the relationship between music performance and anxiety, exploring the psychological and physiological factors that contribute to Music Performance Anxiety (MPA). We will discuss practical strategies for identifying and addressing MPA in students, drawing upon research-based interventions and experiential techniques. Attendees will gain valuable insights and tools to effectively support students in overcoming performance anxiety and cultivating confidence on stage. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Successes & Flops: Small, Competitive Marching Bands |
An incredibly honest case study on four competitive seasons with a 2A/1A Marching Band: Successes and failures in pedagogy, pacing, planning, and design. Learn about commissioning custom shows or purchasing/rebranding "stock" shows. Hear about staging, listening environments, and performing without a conductor. Weigh the costs and benefits of props, and their use. Explore what Houston's staff and boosters have done to raise funds and self-advocate for funding in their district. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Orchestra | Redefining Our Gesture: Refreshers and quick-fixes for more effective conducting |
We all get into bad habits with our conducting- Inevitably, the busy nature of our job can cause us to lose track of our purpose from the podium- to help our students make the best music possible. Our conducting plays an important role in the success or struggle in that process. This session will explore the small adjustments we can make to our conducting, which can generate big results from our ensembles. Bring your baton! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Redefining Our Gesture: Refreshers and quick-fixes for more effective conducting |
We all get into bad habits with our conducting- Inevitably, the busy nature of our job can cause us to lose track of our purpose from the podium- to help our students make the best music possible. Our conducting plays an important role in the success or struggle in that process. This session will explore the small adjustments we can make to our conducting, which can generate big results from our ensembles. Bring your baton! |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | A Cappella Warm Ups For Your Choirs |
Unlock the power of a cappella with 20+ dynamic warm ups for choral conductors. Participants will sing through several warm ups in a variety of different voicings (SAB, SSA, SSAA, SATB, TTB, etc.), and will come away with practical strategies to elevate ensemble performance. Warm ups provided include those that use harmony as a tool for improved intonation, as well as those that double-dip by also training tone, extended vocal ranges, diction, rhythmic precision, and more. Each warm up comes with a specific purpose and goal that will help ensembles improve. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Research | Imposter Syndrome Among Musicians: Conquering the Feelings of Inadequacy |
Have you ever feel like everyone around you is a better musician than you are? Do you feel like you don't truly belong among the other great teachers in your area? Maybe you secretly feel that you're not right for the job and that you're faking it every day, hoping that no one will discover that you actually don't know what you're doing. This session will present fascinating research on imposter syndrome and provide practical solutions to overcome it. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Equity | Introverts in Your Ensembles: Strategies for Inclusivity with Your More Reserved Musicians |
Do you have musicians in your ensembles that don't seem to participate much? Maybe they're off by themselves during break and you're wondering how to get them more involved? This session will highlight effective, healthy, and inclusive ways we can cater our instruction and interactions to help our introvert musicians feel welcomed, understood, and empowered. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Women in Wind Band: The Future of Wind Band for All |
This session is an overview of the Women in Wind Band book published in December 2023 by GIA Publications,Inc. The objectives are to share insight into the experience of women in the field and explore best practices to create a meaningful, inclusive, and authentic environment for our students and all members of the wind band community. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Research | Harmonizing Knowledge: Leveraging Essential Educational Studies for Music Education Excellence |
To provide music educators with a rapid and impactful overview of essential research findings, equipping them with actionable strategies to enhance their teaching effectiveness and enrich students' learning experiences. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Fostering Inclusive Culture in Music Ensembles: A Ted Lasso Inspired Approach |
Our clinic proposes integrating Ted Lasso's principles of kindness, empathy, and inclusivity into music ensemble settings. By leveraging Lasso's teachings, we aim to create an environment where every member feels valued and respected regardless of background or skill level. Through discussion and examination of research, participants will learn practical strategies for fostering a supportive atmosphere, promoting teamwork, and celebrating diversity. Let's harmonize our ensembles with positivity and unity, just like Ted Lasso does with his team. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Orchestra | Progress, Not Perfection: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in School Orchestra Programs |
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a hot-button issue in the realm of professional orchestras. Recently, it has also become an important issue for student orchestras. Creating a safe and inclusive rehearsal environment while programming repertoire by historically underrepresented composers can feel overwhelming. This session will discuss practical ways of integrating DEI into student orchestra programs, specifically names and pronouns; gender-inclusive language; gender-inclusive concert attire; DEI committees and safe zone training; publishers and online resources; and composers and repertoire. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | The Neurons that Fire Together, Choir Together: Optimizing the Brain in Your Choral Rehearsals |
Unlock the potential of the brain in choral education! Join us for an enlightening session delving into the neuroscientific foundations of effective rehearsal techniques. Discover how problem-solving, imagination, and dynamic strategies enhance learning and engagement, fostering lasting musical impressions. Uncover the neurological evidence supporting the effectiveness of these methods over traditional rote repetition. Elevate your choral classroom to new heights as we explore the intersection of neuroscience and pedagogy for a harmonious and enduring educational experience. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Setting the Stage for Success |
All learners deserve quality performances they are excited to participate in. Whether you are a new teacher or a veteran looking to avoid or even reverse burnout, come explore engagement strategies to energize your career. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Work Smarter, Not Harder |
Leverage collaboration, student leadership, and parental support to maximize learning in your elementary program without adding stress or sacrificing teaching time! In this session, participants will learn how to set up systems and procedures that increase engagement and build community in your program and school. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Multicultural | The Power And Connection Music Has As A Language |
After working in a nonprofit resettlement agency in Southwest Missouri, language barriers is one of the hardest hurdles to navigate with clients arriving in America for the first time. After getting to know the clients, one thing that connected them all was music. Taking the time to start a music class that our clients are able to attend and gain a better understanding of American English by learning folk songs, nursery rhymes, and call and response songs. We have seen an increase in their English ability by using this class to help without it feeling like an ELL class. We slowly start to bring in more of their cultures from all over the world and have begun an "international choir" within our clients. The information given in this clinic will help educators understand the bridging of cultures and languages from across the world in one classroom, and how to build connections that could last a lifetime. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Building a Better Base: Daily routines for low brass players of any level |
A daily routine is the foundation of any tuba, trombone, or euphonium player’s ongoing development. Elementary, middle, and high school musicians benefit greatly from a well-rounded routine that focuses on the main pillars of low brass playing. Daily routines are not a new topic, but the ways we approach them can be refreshed by continued advancements in research and pedagogy. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Starting the Beginning Saxophonist |
This session will be an overview of a practical, methodical, and successful way to start your beginning saxophone students using classroom methods, tips, and tricks from a professional saxophone educator. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | General Music | Creating Recycled Musical Instruments |
In the recycled instrument activity, students will use high priority waste reduction items (i.e. scrap tires and plastics), medium priority waste reduction items (i.e. cardboard), and low priority waste reduction items (i.e. newspapers) to build functional musical instruments. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Rehearsal By Design |
Many of us have encountered a season in which we find ourselves bored with our rehearsals. Reflecting on Wiggins and McTighe's theory of Backward Design, you will be introduced to a method of literature selection that encourages diversity and energy in your rehearsals. Learning a variety of activities and strategies that pair well with this approach to literature selection, you will leave inspired with a plan that will help you meet your goals in the upcoming concert season! |
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Band | “Inside the (Actor’s ) Private Studio”- A look at how to run a successful private studio while being an active classroom educator. |
Join Benjamin Middleton (Seckman HS, Imperial) as he leads a round table discussion with classroom educators that also run successful private lesson studios in their communities. We will seek to answer the Who, What, Where, When, Why and "How Much" on this topic. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | College/University | Could Music Therapy be the Career for You? |
Interested in music, psychology, and healthcare? Consider a career as a music therapist! This interactive session with faculty and students from Drury University's music therapy program will explain music therapy with clients in a variety of healthcare settings. Open to interested students and teachers who want to learn more about this exciting career. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | Get Your Class Moving with Camp Songs |
Learn songs used at summer camps all around the U.S. that directly tie into music standards and concepts. We'll sing high energy songs, rounds, and songs that promote creativity. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Teaching Beyond "The Test": Instructional Design in the Ensemble Classroom |
A unique challenge of the secondary ensemble classroom is the need to balance the performance aspects of the class with the skill and knowledge building necessary to build independent, creative, and informed student musicians. This clinic will focus on three levels of instructional design (year, unit, and week/day) that can help educators intentionally and consistently develop students’ musical knowledge beyond their printed performance music. While the two presenter’s are currently middle school band teachers, these concepts can be transferred to any ensemble. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Advocacy that Works: Using Applied Music Psychology to supercharge your administrator's buy-in |
What do principals, school board members, and superintendents want most? What do parents and community members think the purpose of music is? |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Music for Mental Health: How a Brain-Balanced Approach Creates the Best Student Outcomes |
No one alive today has taught music to students who have experienced as much trauma as our students have. Wars, illness, political upheaval, and stress have become ubiquitous. And because music lives in the same part of the brain where emotions are created, music teachers in particular must be equipped with more tools to help distressed students. In this session, you will be introduced to the basics of the brain, how this new science changes the way that we should approach our students, and learn to apply this new science to your curriculums to create brain-balanced lesson plans. Session Objectives |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | The Practice Map: How to use the compelling new tool to create true joy during practice |
Efficiency + Joy = Real Progress Session Objectives/Outline |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Choral | Conducting for Choral Music Educators |
Choose 3 Active Participants to conduct 15 minute each to conduct a chosen repertoire with a live orchestra and use last 15 minute for Q & A (Due to logistics, this would be SATB Choir with Sunnydale Adventist Academy (2023 MMEA Invited HS Choir) |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Research | Neuroscience, Music, and the Divided Brain: Compelling Insights Into How We Learn, Perform, and Appreciate Music |
The ability to perform music expressively is primarily a right-brain function and historically has been evaluated in subjective terms and often discussed using imagery. Increasingly today, music educators are required to convert their subjective musical art into objective data for collection, analysis, and evaluation. This session will clarify what neuroscience has discovered about our divided brain and distinguish the differences between the left and right-hemisphere functions. This knowledge is compelling and absolutely intriguing when brain science is applied to music. |
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Choral | Tips for a Successful Vocal Solo and Ensemble Experience |
Attendees will receive several suggestions from a seasoned vocal solo/ensemble adjudicator. Discussion will include what judges like to see and what you should steer away from in the vocal solo/ensemble contest room. These include best practices that will give students a positive outcome regardless of their received rating. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Early Childhood/Elementary | The Smoothly Run Classroom |
The music classroom has more need of smooth routines and organization practices than other classrooms because of the instruments and performance principles involved, but has less time available to building these routines with students. This session for new educators will show how classroom organization, student leadership, and exacting procedures establish strong routines quickly. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | College/University | Settling The Score: Culturally informed adaptation of non-western percussion parts in published works for choir, orchestra, band, and chamber ensembles. |
More and more published works are incorporating "world percussion" into instrumental part |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Advancing Music Education | Culturally informed adaptation of non-western percussion parts in published works for choir, orchestra, band, and chamber ensembles. |
More and more published works are incorporating "world percussion" into instrumental part |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Mentoring | Getting the Job Every Time! |
Based on experiences from Fine Arts Administrators who work directly with building administrators to hire and do evaluations of music teachers, this presentation will coach new & old teachers through the interview process. Topics include what district administrators are looking for in your resume, how to prepare for an interview, what to include during your interview, and tips for the interview process. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Jazz | Swinging for the Changes |
Join Marvin Berry and the Starlighters as they help you discover the newest way to train your students to play with the changes. They will be playing their top hit, "Earth Angel," and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" as they discuss their unique technique. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | NAfME-Collegiate | You've been called for an interview; now what? |
This session will provide tips and strategies to prepare for the extensive |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Successful Marching Band Camp on a Limited Budget, in a Small School |
In this session, the clinician will offer suggestions and ideas for a |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | NAfME-Collegiate | Ten Lessons After College: What Textbooks Don't Teach |
This session will present ten aspects of teaching instrumental music that textbooks in college do not present enough knowledge. Based upon the clinician’s twenty-five-year career, they have included topics such as planning and creating events for a calendar, collaboration with other teachers and directors, choosing appropriate music for the ensemble’s skill, dealing with parents, administrators, and boosters, working with a budget, basic instrument repair, personal health, and wellbeing, and most importantly having appropriate relationships with students. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Teaching like a coach and coaching like a teacher |
Drawing upon the practices of master teachers, this clinic will highlight the intersection of techniques from the world of coaching that can be used to create a transformative, high-achieving rehearsal environment rooted in trust and built on strong relationships. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Strategies for Success: Making the Transition from Teaching Middle School Band to High School Band |
This session offers guidance for the director moving to the high school level. |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | Ideas for a Successful Marching Band Camp on a Limited Budget, in a Small School |
In this session, the clinician will offer suggestions and ideas for a |
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Primary Clinic/Session (60 minutes) | Band | You've been called for an interview; now what? |
This session will provide tips and strategies to prepare for the extensive |
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