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


Special Learners Maureen Butler


mbutler@mlschools.org


Although the school year is now in full swing, I’d like to take a moment to look back on our Summer Conference, and thank the present-


ers and participants in our special learners workshops. Brian Wagner and Lucia Marone, as always, shared wonderful activities and strategies that demonstrated their keen insight into our students with special needs. I was inspired once again by the participants who were eager to share and to learn more about teaching all of our students. By now you have met the special learners who will be in your classes until June. I encourage you to reflect on how well they are managing


and to develop ways to make music more accessible to them. If you have questions or concerns about the students you teach, please feel free to contact me at the email address above. Similarly, if you have any topics you’d like to see addressed in TEMPO, send those ideas to me as well.


Summer Workshop Joe Akinskas


akinskas@rowan.edu Summer Workshop Coordinator


Summer Workshop X Wrap-up


The Tenth annual summer workshop was held in the Arts and Instructional Media build- ing on the delightful campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing. Our tenth anniversary workshop addressed several Music Education content areas, based


on an unprecedented round of new online session submissions and presenters, that included: Choral Music, Instrumental Music, Technology Applications, Classroom Music Techniques and Strategies, and Special Education implications in Music Instruction, along with well at- tended choral and instrumental reading sessions, and domain forums. Additionally, a roster of Special Topic presentations included hands-on instrument repair


techniques by our resident repair specialist Dave Kaplan; AEANJ represented by Ennis Carter and Bob Morrison; A Standards Update by NJMEA President Jeff Santoro; Navigating Music On A Cart by Danielle Ingram; splendid lunch entertainment by the RockNRoll Chorus; and the day ending with our grand wrap-up coffee and dessert reception, sponsored by Ron Beau- doin for NEMC, with the always phenomenal “Rachel’s Raffle.”


TEMPO 24 OCTOBER 2017


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