& News From Our Division Chairs &
Our third workshop was held on February 1st as we attended a workshop entitled, “Smart Music as a Tool for Assessment”. The workshop was facilitated by Bob Pispecky, Supervisor of Music for the Edison Public Schools and presented by Lisa Swanick from the West Orange Public Schools. The purpose of the workshop was to show how the program can be used as a tool to evaluate student progress. At the NJMEA Conference held February 21-23, the members of the NJMAA continued to share their expertise by presenting sessions.
Several included, “The End is the Beginning-The Science of Reverse Planning”, presented by Joe Akinskas, retired supervisor from the Cherry Hill Public Schools and Cumberland County College and Rowan University; “Transitioning from Music Student to Music Teacher, presented by Robert Piskecky, Music Supervisor from the Edison Public Schools; and “Music Student to Music Teacher: Nail Down that Job”, presented by Peter Griffin from the Hopewell Valley School district and Robert Pispecky from the Edison School District. This year several of the NJ- MAA sessions were part of the Collegiate Academy that was held on Saturday of the conference. NJMAA, once again, held its annual Breakfast Meeting on Friday, February 22nd. The members that attended shared a relaxing time to
say hello and renew acquaintances. A Job Fair was sponsored by NJMAA to give the members an opportunity to interview possible candidates for jobs and to give an opportunity for candidates to have a first time interview and to get a feel for job opportunities that might be out there in the near future. Our April12th workshop presented, by Joe Akinskas, was entitled, “Aesthetic Education Across the Curriculum: Participate in an Inter-
active Workshop & Discussion on Applications and Activities per the New Standards”. Presenters for this workshop were from the Lincoln Center Institute, New York City. Our General Membership meetings/workshops are held at the Rutgers Club on the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Hospitality begins at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting begins at 10:00. Check the Rutgers Club website for directions. Our membership meetings have been filled with new and veteran members who are working together to provide each other with good practical methods of administration of music education in their schools. We want to continue to reach out to those supervisors, directors, administrators and coordinators of programs without a music background to join our organization and use the NJMAA as a resource to more effectively deal with music teachers and the special needs of their program. Please join us at our meetings. For more information go to www.
njmaa.org .
Band Performance Al Bazzel
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fenwayfollwer5@comcast.net Congratulations to all involved with this year’s All State Band, from auditions through the concert weekend. Special thanks to our con-
ductors, McCauley and Martynuik, the entire band procedures committee, coordinators, managers, hosts, and band directors throughout the state. Your students did a wonderful job! Please note the 2013-14 solo list will be posted and published in the May issue of TEMPO. As a reminder, there is still time to join the consortium for the Dana Wilson commission for the 75th anniversary of the New Jersey All State Bands. You definitely want to be a part of this exciting and important work. For more information and consortium form, contact Lew Kelly at
lkelly@woboe.org. On behalf of the entire committee, I hope you have a successful spring performance season at your respective schools.
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