& News From Our Division Chairs
Administration Ronald P. Dolce
732-574-0846
rdolce561@aol.com
Happy New Year from the members of the New Jersey Music Administrators Association. We hope that you had a break from
school activities and were able to celebrate the winter season with family and friends. It is hard to believe that the school year is almost half complete and we are moving on to our spring concerts and musicals.
With the evaluation of both teachers and students on our minds this past year the NJMAA has been busy producing work-
shops that will help our members effectively evaluate their teaching staff as well as helping the teaching staff set guidelines for evaluating their students. We have held two workshops since the beginning of this school year. The first held in October entitled, “Assessment in Music Education Continued-Where are We with SGO’s”. This workshop was facilitated by Tom Weber from the Egg Harbor Township School District and Peter Griffin from the Hopewell Valley School District. This was a round table dis- cussion and each member was able to share with the membership how they were going about helping the teachers develop their SGO’S for this year. The second workshop held in December, “Assessments in the Cloud”, was facilitated by Linda King from the Westfield Public Schools and teachers from her district. In this workshop her teachers are able to evaluate their students by the use of technology in the classroom.
Our general membership meetings have had an outstanding turnout. We have had many new members attend this year and
are happy to see that in many districts music administration positions are being maintained even when a retirement occurs. In February, at the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference, the music administrators will continue to present
pertinent workshops for the new teachers as well as veterans. In addition to the workshops, the NJMAA will continue to hold its “Annual Welcome Breakfast” at 8:30 am on Friday, February 21, 2014. All supervisors are invited to the breakfast to meet their colleagues and a brief discussion on matters of the day.
The NJMAA meetings are held at the Rutgers Club on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University. The meetings begin at 9:00 with a hospitality breakfast at 8:30 am. If you have not joined as yet, it is not too late. Check our website at www.
njmaa.org for further information.
NJMAA continues to reach out to the Supervisors, Program Directors, Administrators (e.g. Principals, Assistant Principals
and Department 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 and become a member.
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