WMEA News
Advocacy Concept 1: Advocacy needs to be thought about as an ongoing wellness program, not an emergency room visit.
Advocacy Concept 2: Advocacy is, in a very real sense, about building relation- ships and trust.
Advocacy Concept 3: The key to effective advocacy is developing your ability to understand another person’s perspective and then successfully communicating how your view or values can align with their view and values. To accomplish this, we may need to do a fair amount of what we do best… Educate.
Embedding Advocacy in the Music Curriculum and Classroom
https://www.accelevents.com/e/2020W isconsinStateMusicConference/portal/ schedule/31883 Presenters included Jacki Thering, Rich Tengowski and Leyla Sanyer. Major takeaways included: Music Educa- tors advocate for their students and cur- riculum through relationships, clarity of philosophy, careful vocabulary choices, and sharing of ideas, through conversa- tions, use of the standards, and collabora- tion within the school environment.
During the summer of 2020 WMEA President Paul Budde charged the WMEA Advocacy Committee to do a complete rewrite of the advocacy articles and re- sources on the WMEA website. Access the
page here: WMEA Advocacy Resources Page.
Here is a sampling of Advocacy Strategy articles for music educators available on the WMEA Resources page:
Basic Advocacy Guidelines for Teachers – Helpful ideas to ensure that music edu- cation is promoted in a positive manner.
Practical Guidelines in the Event of Emergencies or Proposed Reductions – “Reactive” suggestions for how to address proposed reductions in music instruction.
Advocacy With Families and Community Members – Ideas about how to engage with families and community members in advocacy for music education.
Speaking With Legislators and School Board Members – Practical ideas and suggestions for how to successfully ad- vocate with legislators and school board members.
Advocacy Through Language and Educa- tional Philosophy – Thoughts about how the language we use and the educational philosophy that guides us can impact how others view music education.
COVID-19 Talking Points When Speak- ing With School Administrators
WMEA Standards Committee
Christine Hayes – Chair
The WMEA Standards committee has been hard at work this year.
In
the end of July, over 50 teachers attended an online workshop pre- paring for Fall 2020 standards based learning whether their school districts were planning on virtual or face to face formats.
In August, the Standards chair position shifted from Leyla Sanyer to
Wisconsin School Musician
Christine Hayes. The committee expanded from six to 11 members.
2020–22 Standards Committee Paul Budde (UW-River Falls) Laura Burns (Oregon High School/ Edgewood College)
Christine Hayes (Whitewater Lincoln Elementary)
Ian Melrose (Sun Prairie Cardinal Heights Middle School)
Kate Mitchell (Pewaukee High School) Hannah Muehlbauer (West Bend Silver Brook Middle School) Aimee Swanson (East Troy Middle and High Schools)
Angela Roberts (Waunakee Middle School)
Leyla Sanyer (Retired, Oregon High School)
Richard Tengowski (Kohler Schools) Brian VanderBloemen (McFarland High School)
Three sessions were offered at the Octo- ber 2020 Wisconsin State Virtual Music Conference:
• Creative, Flexible Use of Standards • Basic Information on Standards • Technology Ecology With the Standards
In January everyone is welcome to join us for a standards workshop on how to take curriculum writing and work with the standards to the performance standards level. Let’s get
specific...bring your col- leagues or join in by yourself. January 22–23, 2021:
https://wsmamusic.org/ wmea-standards-winter-2021/
CMP Committee Marcy Russell – Chair
The CMP committee is planning a virtual winter workshop hosted by WMEA. The dates are February 12–13. Please join us to unpack a part of the CMP model from the comfort of your home or school. Check
wmeamusic.org/cmp for current information.
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