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THE NEW JERSEY MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION a federated state association of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION News From Our Division Chairs


Retired Music Educators Kathleen Spadafino


908-208-5980 kspadEB@aol.com


We all missed getting together at the NJMEA conference in February - there was no conference this year as New Jersey is hosting the NAfME Eastern Conference in Atlantic City! Dates are April 5 – 8. I hope to see many of you there, showing the rest of our division how New Jersey hosts a conference. But meanwhile, we are starting to prepare for next year’s conference. Do you know an NJMEA Music Educator who is truly an outstand-


ing teacher? Help recognize this person by nominating them for the 2017 Master Music Teacher Award. Please note that the application form for this nomination can be found in the January issue of TEMPO and also on the NJMEA website. The deadline is March 15, so there still is a little bit of time to get your nomination in! Our end of the year General Membership meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 10 at 10:15 a.m., place TBA. I will be sending out


a reminder in April, or you can email me for any further information. That includes YOU – anyone who joined our ranks in the middle of the year! Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2017. Yay, retirement!!


Special Learners Maureen Butler


973-299-0166 mbutler@mlschools.org


Increasingly, music teachers have questions about how to include special learners in their class. Some of these questions are: How do we make music accessible to children with various disabilities? How do we do this while juggling the needs of all our students? What kinds of behaviors can we expect from all our students? Moreover, how can we find the time to learn about their special needs? Fortunately, this year music teachers will have at least two opportunities to learn more, and hopefully many will be able to take advantage


of them. The first will be the NAfME Eastern Conference in April, where there will be several wonderful sessions to choose from. The second will be at the annual Summer Session in August at TCNJ. We are still in the early planning stages, discussing feedback we received from the survey taken after last year’s Summer Session. A few music teachers made specific workshop requests in the “Special Education” strand, including such topics as autism, behavioral disorders, and building successful lessons. If there are other topics you’d like to see covered in the summer, please email me at the above address. Likewise, if you have questions or concerns about the students you teach, or topics want to see addressed in TEMPO please contact me


as well.


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