Meeting with Congressmen Gary Palmer and Congresswoman Martha Roby are Collegiate Chase Hampton, AMEA President Greg Gumina, and President-elect David Raney
has been doing a great job heading up these efforts for us and we will all need to be engaged in the process of Advocacy.
2020 Professional Development Conference
As you know, we are returning to Montgomery for our 2020 conference this year. Please make plans to attend the conference now, and please plan to stay on site. Congratulations to all the performing groups and presenters who were chosen for our conference this year. We look forward to enjoying your performances and learning from your willingness to share knowledge. The Keynote Address and General Session will be on Thursday morning, January 16th at 10:30. Please arrange your travel plans so you are able to attend. The Governing Board will be meeting in August to finalize plans for the conference, and I’m looking forward to seeing all of you there. It’s going to be fabulous!
Agenda, Goals, and Celebration
The agenda during my tenure has been driven by the goals of advocacy, action, technology, collegiality, standards, knowledge, and pride. I
would like everybody to feel included, important, and crucial to the success of the AMEA. There is no stronger advocacy group than one which is united. We all play a part in the musical education and social development of our young people in Alabama, and I wish for us all to identify as one unified association. One of the main ways we are accomplishing this is through advocacy efforts. I want us to become more visual in our communities, in our State Capitol, and be more culturally relevant to our populous. Let’s all continue to be both visible and vigilant at the local, state, and national levels. All politics is indeed local, so make sure
you are in contact with our elected officials on all levels. Invite them to your concerts and other events to let them see that music education is healthy and vibrant in Alabama. Additional to all of this, we will be helping our state celebrate its bicentennial. There are now downloadable PDF arrangements of our state song on the AMEA website which I hope you will program on your various concerts and events this fall. We will continue our performances in the State Capitol Rotunda during the spring legislative session. And finally, I can now officially announce that we will be a very vital component of the Bicentennial Celebration and parade on December 14th of this year. Funding has been acquired from the ALSDE, Bicentennial Commission, and the Travel and Tourism Commission, so look for announcements and information about this event which will be released very soon.
Onward and Upward
As we move forward into the 2019-20 school year, let’s all commit to finding that first-year teacher, that new person to our state, and our fellow music educators not currently involved in AMEA and invite them to participate. I hope that you all have a great school year with wonderful lessons based on best practices, standards and assessments, and high-quality sequential methodologies. Our students deserve the best that we can do for them. Now let’s get busy educating the young people throughout our beloved state.
Music Education is AWESOME in Alabama!
Respectfully Submitted, Gregory L. Gumina
Attending the NAfME Leadership Assembly and Collegiate Summit are (L to R): Collegiates Sarah Chambless, Chase Hampton, and Sara Slusher; Executive Director Garry Taylor, President Greg Gumina, President-elect David Raney, Immediate Past President Susan Smith,
and NAfME General Music Chair and AMEA Advocacy Chair Rob Lyda. ala breve
Collegiate Sara Slusher, AMEA Advocacy Chair
Rob Lyda, Immediate Past President Susan Smith and Collegiate Sarah Chambless meet with a congressional aide during the NAfME Hill Day
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