AMEA Leaders attend National Conference
AMEA President Pat Stegall and Executive Director/Editor Garry Taylor attended the MENC National Leadership Assembly and National Conference in Milwaukee during April. Highlights of the assembly included:
“State of the Association” address by MENC Executive Director John Mahlmann.
“Job-alike” sessions “Same size” state sessions
Breakout sessions with topics related to MENC’s strategic plan.
Division meetings (SDMENC) News from the Conference:
- The 2010 National Conference will have a new format. Details are forthcoming.
- The National Anthem Project will continue next year with another ceremony in Washington DC in June.
- The All-American Marching Band program was a great success and will continue again next year.
- The World’s Largest Concert will continue next year with new outside funding sources in addition to MENC.
- Lynn Brinckmeyer has finished her term as President and Barbara Geer takes over the position. Barbara’s theme is “Music...Just Imagine.”
Serving Jazz Educators is the Aim of New Initiative by MENC: The National Association for Music Education
RESTON, VA (May 8, 2008) — MENC: The National Association for Music Education has always been a strong and successful advocate for music education in all its forms. Recent problems faced
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by the International Association for Jazz Education have caused the dissolution of that association, challenging the music education community to step in and fill the need to support education in this quintessentially American art form. MENC will step forward to meet that challenge by providing enhanced services and benefits in the area of jazz education, including: A major area on the MENC web site for jazz education, with weekly short articles, a forum for discussions, and links to standards-based jazz lessons on the MENC “My Music Class” online idea center and lesson plan library. Increased performance, discussion, and pedagogical opportunities at MENC national events beginning in summer 2010 or before.
Increased coverage of topics on jazz and jazz education in print or electronic format. To implement these new initiatives, MENC will work with leaders in jazz education to better serve the 11,000 MENC members already working in that field, rally those former IAJE members who are left without a professional association, and activate a new and exciting network of supporters for jazz in our schools and our culture. Future announcements about MENC’s jazz education initiative will be posted at
www.menc.org/news.
MENC Marches Away with Prestigious Recognition
MENC is one of only 11 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence in the third round of the 2008 Associations Advance America (AAA) Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) & The Center for Association Leadership, Washington, DC.
MENC received the award for its 2008 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band, a program that recognizes the nation’s finest student marching musicians with “All-American” status. 2008 was the program’s inaugural year. Now in its 18th year, the prestigious Associations Advance America (AAA) Awards recognize associations that “propel America forward” -- with
innovative projects in education, skills training, standard-setting, business and social innovation, knowledge creation, citizenship, and community service. “We are very proud to receive this recognition from ASAE,” said John J. Mahlmann, executive director of MENC. “Through the All-American Marching Band, MENC and our partners were able to reach members of the public who might not have recognized the value of school music programs. By spotlighting the accomplishments of student musicians in the same way as are those of student athletes, we believe this program advances America.”
1000 Students Sing the National Anthem in Nation's Capital
The national spotlight focused on music education on June 13, 2008, as 1,000 students from across the country, YouTube sensation the “Cactus Cuties,” the U.S. Marine Band, and delegates from the Mrs. America organization performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the U.S. Capitol. The performers were celebrating the national anthem and the importance of music education.
A new Harris Poll released in June 2008 found that Americans overwhelmingly support teaching the national anthem in schools and agree music education impacts success in other subjects.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the world’s largest arts education organization, marked its centennial in 2007 as the only association that addresses all aspects of music education. More than 130,000 members represent all levels of teaching from preschool to graduate school. Since 1907, MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well- balanced, comprehensive, and high- quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. MENC’s activities and resources have been largely responsible for the establishment of music education as a profession, for the promotion and guidance of music study as an integral part of the school curriculum, and for the development of the National Standards for Arts Education.
August 2008
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