& News From Our Division Chairs &
President Elect Joe Jacobs
609-487-7900
jjacobs@veccnj.org
And the winners are ….? This is the second year that nominations for the NJMEA Administrator Awards and Distinguished Service Awards were submitted to me.
It is very exciting to see that there are so many outstanding educators and supporters of music in New Jersey. Some of the award winners are people that you may be familiar with through a region or an all state ensemble. Some of the winners are people that hold or held an office or a leadership position on a region or state board. Others may only be familiar to people in the local school district. But all of these educators care about music education just like you. The difference between the award winners and other dedicated administrators and teachers is difficult to identify. There is no pattern but
there are a few common elements. The first thing that comes to my mind is that those who were nominated are looking at a bigger picture than some of us. They care not only about the students in their classes or schools, but about all of New Jersey’s music students. How many times have we focused all of our energy and resources on our own students? These winners are able to not only meet the needs of their students but also are able and willing to assist other students in our region and state. The second difference that I see is their time commitment for music education and music advocacy. All of the candidates share an extraor-
dinary amount of their precious time with our students. These ladies and gentlemen somehow find the time to attend student performances, rehearsals, auditions, board meetings and workshops. Our first reaction may be that these people do not have the responsibility that we have at our schools. They don’t have scheduling prob- lems, lesson plans, or demands from administrators and parents. They don’t have to deal with student performances, motivation, state testing, or assessments. They just don’t have a life! They do have a life and it is very similar to ours. We all share the same challenges in our teaching careers. The setbacks that we may face as music educators are not new. Our colleagues are experiencing the same joys, rewards and sometimes frustrations that we do. We all support music education and the role it plays in the lives of our students. They just go one step further. The bottom line is that there is no major difference between the award winners and the rest of us. We celebrate their recognition and applaud their accomplishments because it represents the dedication that all of us try to achieve as caring professional music educators. We congratulate the recipients of the NJMEA awards as our colleagues and our role models. They are the best and so are you! The names of the 2013 NJMEA award recipients will be announced at our February conference and the May edition of TEMPO magazine. And the winners are… our students. Thank you for all that you do for our children and music education.
Administration Ronald P. Dolce
732-574-0846
rdolce561@aol.com
Well spring is right around the corner and many of you are in the middle of school musicals and preparing for the concert season. This
school year seems to be going by very quickly. The New Jersey Music Administrators Association has been busy this year with our membership dedicating our meeting/workshops to the new models of teacher evaluation that will be utilized in the coming year. Our workshops have given the music administrators some time to discuss what is being done in various districts as well as hearing from prominent district administrators in the state and what they are doing to facilitate the new evaluation processes.
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