WMEA News Paul Budde, WMEA President-Elect
2018 Wisconsin State Music Conference
The 2018 Wisconsin State Music Con- ference will take place October 24–27 at Monona Terrace Community and Conven- tion Center in Madison. The theme for this year’s conference is “Music Education: Embracing Diversity” and, as such, will include a new session category: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA). The opening concert on Wednesday evening will feature six diverse musical groups, and guest speaker Contance McKoy will present sessions on Thursday and Friday that focus on the topic of cultural diversity in music education.
Early registration (reduced rate) is now open on the conference website (through September 16). Standard registration rates will go into effect on September 17 and will be available through October 16 on the conference website. As usual, attend- ees may also register on site at Monona Terrace during the conference.
Please visit
wmeamusic.org/conference for additional information.
WAME News
The Wisconsin Advocates for Music Education (WAME) Committee met in July. Several items were included on the agenda.
First, the committee recapped NAfME Hill Day (June 2018), at which the WMEA leadership team (including Lau- rie Fellenz, Lynn Seidl, Kati Seiter and Brad Schneider), Leyla Sayner (NAfME North Central Division immediate past president) and collegiate representatives (Leah Motl and Paige Owen) traveled to Washington D.C. and spoke with five Wisconsin representatives. This year’s ASK was for fully authorized funding for Every Student Succeeds Act’s (ESSA’s) well-rounded education programs, as well as for cosponsoring the Guarantee Access to Arts and Music Education (GAAME) Act, which makes Title 1 funds available for music education.
Next, the committee discussed the Wis- consin Drive-In Day (February 2018), at which time representatives from WMEA and the National Association of
Music Merchants (NAMM), along with additional interested citizens, met with 12 Senators and 16 Representatives. The ASK for this year’s event was: Wisconsin Music Educators Association requests that the annual School District Report Cards be amended to include local and state enroll- ment percentages in music, visual arts and drama/theater as data on the Student En- gagement Indicators page. This data would be presented for informational purposes only and not considered in a district’s accountability calculations. Please watch for more information about next year’s event, which is tentatively scheduled for February 6, 2019.
Finally, the committee discussed a new advocacy project (name forthcoming) that will focus on encouraging middle and high school students to consider music education as a career choice. Please keep an eye out for more information about this exciting initiative, which has a fall 2019 target date for the first iteration of this one-day event.
Please visit
wame.wmeamusic.org for more information about WAME, includ- ing ways that you can get actively in- volved within this group. Don’t forget to follow the WAME Facebook page as well at
facebook.com/WAMEWI.
WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards The WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards Revision Committee continues to update the WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards, which were first released on the WMEA website in June 2017. Based on feedback from educators across the state, commit- tee members reconvened this July to ex- plore ways to expand standards related to technology, explore revisions to existing standards wording, and examine format- ting changes to increase overall clarity. In addition, the committee led a workshop in August, titled “Meaningful Guidelines to Inspire Great Music Education: Using the
Representative Mark Pocan meets with Wisconsin delegation team during NAfME Hill Day.
22 September 2018
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