& News From Our Division Chairs &
Administration Ronald P. Dolce
732-574-0846
rdolce561@aol.com
Happy New Year from the New Jersey Music Administrators Association. It is hard to believe that half of the school year is almost over.
We hope that you had a restful winter break from school and the hectic concert season. The association has already sponsored two successful workshops for our membership. Our first workshop held in October, “Benchmark Assessment Tools in Music- Roundtable Discussion” is a beginning of a yearlong series of workshops dedicated to the new evaluation procedures that we are beginning to deal with for the coming school year. This first workshop was facilitated by Linda King from the Westfield Public Schools and Peter Griffin from the Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Our second workshop held on December 7th
. was entitled, “Current Status of Music Teacher Evaluation”. Retired
Supervisor of Music from the Cherry Hill Public Schools, Joe Akinskas was the facilitator. Our general membership meetings are held this year at the Rutgers Club at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The meetings begin at 10:00 a.m. with hospitality beginning at 9:30 a.m. Please check our website at
njmaa.org. As we continue our workshops to help our members to understand and facilitate the new evaluation procedures, Bob Pispecky, Supervisor of Music from the Edison Public Schools will present a workshop, “Smart Music as a Tool for Assessment” on February. 1st
, 2013. If you are
not familiar with SmartMusic and the value of it as an assessment tool, you should attend and get some great information about it from Bob. At the NJMEA Conference in February, our members will continue to share their knowledge as they present workshops that will benefit the experienced administrator and teacher as well as those new to the profession. Several of our workshops will be held on Friday, February 22nd
and as part of the College Day on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013. In addition, the NJMAA will sponsor their annual “Welcome Breakfast” and “Job Fair.” All supervisors are cordially invited to attend our informal breakfast at 8:30 A. M. on February 22nd
at the NJMEA Conference and join us for some early morning nourishment, meet some
old friends and make some new ones. You never know who might show up from our national organization so please attend all of the NJMAA sponsored workshops on February 22nd
and 23rd. NJMAA continues to reach out to the Supervisors, Program Directors, Administrators (e.g. Principals, Assistant Principals, and De-
partment Chairs), Directors and Coordinators of Music to become active members of the association. Sharing knowledge and experiences strengthens the state of our arts programs. Coming together gives us an opportunity to better understand issues, concerns and the diversity of the arts programs in our state. Come join us. Check our website at
NJMAA.org for more information and become a member.
Band Performance Al Bazzel
856-358-2054
fenwayfollwer5@comcast.net Greetings from the Band Division. We hope you are having a great school year. There are a few dates of importance coming up soon.
Auditions for All-State Band will be held at JP Stevens High School on Saturday, January 19th. The snow date will be Sunday, January 20th. All-State Orchestra woodwinds, brass, and percussion are also selected based on the results of these auditions. Peter Bauer is our auditions chair. We would like to thank the administration at JP Stevens for allowing us to use their facilities, and Andy DeNicola and John Zazzali for hosting auditions again this year. The All-State Band first rehearsal will be held at South Brunswick High School on Thursday, January 31st from 5:00-9:00pm. Please
remind your students who are selected to the ensembles to bring the required paperwork and payments to this rehearsal. Special thanks to the administration at South Brunswick and to Mark Kraft and Donna Cardaneo for hosting the first rehearsal.
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