Advocacy Chair Continued


legislation affecting music education as well as free flyers and inserts to put in your concert programs.


Check out the NAfME Community tab, where you can read


and post in forums that are frequently read and visited by other music educators. You may find some great ideas, get an answer to your question, or give back by answering another educator’s question.


I hope what I’ve mentioned in this first installment of


Advocacy Toolbox are useful to you and your classrooms. If you have done anything in your programs and communities, whether PreK-Collegiate and Community ensembles, I would love to have


Never stop learning!


Evan Bradley is in his third year of teaching at Wheatland Middle School and High School. He teaches mostly instrumental music and some vocal. Evan grew up in Gillette, WY, and was a percussionist at CCHS. He earned his Bachelors in Music Ed from the University of Wyoming in 2014, and he is currently working on his masters through the summer program, also at UW.


you email me about them. I will be doing an installment in a future Windsong sharing the successes that various educators have had with certain advocacy strategies in their own locales.


Music In Our Schools Month Chair


best profession under the sun. If you are a returning educator, welcome back! If you are new to our great state or a first time teacher, then welcome, I’m pleased you are here!


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Andrew Salzman WMEA MIOSM Chair


As I personally geared up for


the upcoming year I couldn’t help but relate very much to the theme of


this journal - Music: Central to a Well-Rounded Education. As I prepared for marching band camp I took some time to reflect on my own experiences in marching band and my musical education. I feel that throughout my life, music is what provided me with some of the greatest life skills that I have. Between my parents and my band director, I learned that being on time is important. Not only will trips and activities run smoothly, but it also shows others that you have courtesy and are responsible. Music has also taught me about working with others. As we all know and probably preach in our own programs as well as communities, music promotes team collaboration, communication, and compromise. Be it verbal or not, we teach communication skills, a means to express ourselves. We also teach collaboration through the pieces we prepare and perform, as well as the community that we establish in our ensembles and classrooms.


While I realize that Well-Rounded Education takes on a


newer meaning with the passing of ESSA I still think of my Well- Rounded Education provided through music as the even more important life skills. Without the valuable skills I received from music I’m not sure I would be the person and definitely not the educator I am today. We provide Well-Rounded Educations to our students every day in our classrooms. It may not always be cross curricular in the sense of math, reading, writing, social studies,


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Andrew Salzman is in his fifth year of teaching in Carbon County School District #1 as the Band Director at Rawlins Middle School. He is a 2013 graduate of the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. In addition to being a member of NAfME and WMEA, serving as Music in Our Schools Month Chair, he is also a member of the WEA, and currently serving as President of the Carbon One Educator’s Association.


elcome to another year in the most noble and, in my opinion,


etc. But we are instilling in each of our young musicians a well-rounded education of how to appreciate the finer things in life, how to be a functioning human being in society, and to appreciate humanity. To me I don’t think there is a more Well- Rounded Education offered in the public school system.


Thank you for all that you do for the kids of the State of


Wyoming, and for their musical education. I’ve said it before along with many others, but I truly believe that we have a noble job. You enrich the lives of students every day, in many ways, whether you know it or not. Keep up the good work! Please remember as you move through your year to take time and shine a light on what you and your musicians do. Thankfully the month of March is a National celebration to help us shine even more light. Keep Music in Our Schools Month in mind as you progress through your year and try to plan something, however small it may be, to celebrate what you are doing. I will be providing resources as we get closer to March to help in this planning. As always if there is anything I can do to help you with MIOSM please don’t hesitate to contact me, asalzman@crb1.net.


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