& News From Our Division Chairs
Administration Ronald P. Dolce
732-574-0846
rdolce561@aol.com
The members of the Executive Board, Board of Directors and the membership of the New Jersey Music Administrators As-
sociation would like to welcome back to a new school year the members of the New Jersey Music Educators Association. We hope that everyone had a great summer break and were able to take some time to refresh themselves and bring new energy and ideas back to the students of the New Jersey schools.
We would like to thank Peter Griffin, Supervisor of Music for the Hopewell Valley School District, for his excellent leader- ship and guidance the past two years. Peter brought us through trying times as we tried to better understand the process of the SGO’s. Through our workshop sessions, we were able to help each other gain a better understanding of the development and the process of the new evaluation system. We would like to announce that Robert Pispecky, Supervisor of Music, Edison Pubic Schools, will serve as President for the 2014-2016 term; Tom Weber, Supervisor of Music, Egg Harbor Township Public Schools, will serve as President-Elect; David Imhof, Supervisor of Music, Randolph Township Public Schools, will serve as Secretary; and Louis Quagliato, Supervisor of Music, West Orange Public Schools, will serve as Treasurer. Our Board of Directors for 2014- 2016 are: Joseph Akinskas, Cumberland County College; Ron Dolce, retired music administrator; Linda King, Past President and Supervisor of Music, Westfield Public Schools; Matt Lorenzetti, Supervisor of Music, Linden Public Schools; and Patricia Rowe, Supervisor of Music, Moorestown Public Schools.
Our Executive Board along with the Board of Directors dedicated much time this past spring developing the topics for this
year’s meeting/workshops. The topics focus around a follow up to last year’s program and what we can do after the dust settles from the new evaluation process and what we can do to keep music education for our students in focus.
Last year, the attendance at our meetings was outstanding with our membership being at an all-time high. We hope to con-
tinue the trend this year as we present the following meetings/workshops to our membership: October 3, 2014 - “Teacher SGO’s- One Year Later”-facilitators- Peter Griffin and Tom Weber December 5, 2014 -
“New Supervisor Evaluations”- facilitators- Robert Pispecky and Louis Quagliato
February 6, 2015 - “Roundtable- Scheduling and Surviving the Evaluation Process”- facilitator- Linda King February 19-21 - NJMEA Conference (NJMAA Breakfast Feb. 20) March 27, 2015 - “Now… Back to Music Education! – facilitator - Joseph Akinskas (TIME- Technology in Music Education)
June 5, 2015 - Road Trip - TBA We continue to encourage NJMEA members who have a supervisor, chairperson, or administrator without a music back-
ground to invite them to join the NJMAA to help them to become more effective and efficient in meeting the needs of your program. We must continue to maintain a strong voice for music education and stand together to help each other understand and overcome the issues in music education today. For more information about the New Jersey Music Administrators Association go to
njmaa.org.
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