A message from WSMA & WMEA Executive Director Laurie Fellenz affirming the importance Wisconsin School Music Association and Wisconsin Music Educators Association place on equitable access to high-quality music education for all students in a welcoming and safe environment with music teachers best positioned to make age-appropriate and educationally sound decisions regarding the study and performance of music. Read more here>>
Partnership Presentation – Indianapolis
Thank you for attending our presentation at the Performing Arts Education and Creative Industries Meeting. These are links to the documents shared:
March is Music In Our Schools Month®!
Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Music Education – February 15, 2020
Join us for this hands on workshop integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL), self-efficacy and arts/academic skills through classroom culture, relationship and student-derived data assessment.
Participants will be taken through creating SEL/arts integration routines and curricula and then building tools to assess self-efficacy development in those areas, quantitatively and qualitatively, over time.
Date & Time: February 15, 2020 – 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education
Instructor: Dr. Yorel Lashley
Dr. Yorel Lashley’s desire to study West African traditional music led him to the Kankouran West African Dance Company in Washington, D.C. to learn from Master Drummer Medoune “Dame” Yacine Gueye, and Master Dancer/Artistic Director Assane Konte becoming a senior drummer with the company in 1998. His desire to master Afro-Cuban percussion led to study with Jorge Delgado at the Harbor Conservatory for the performing arts in Spanish Harlem. Yorel performed as a percussionist in New York and abroad and also led his own 10-piece NYC-based band, Melee, serving as a resident band at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café.
He is a founding member of the Handphibians of Madison, WI. In 2000, Yorel founded Drum Power Inc. (www.mydrumpower.com), a youth leadership program that uses learning West African Traditional, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban percussion to help young people practice life skills—discipline, community and leadership. To date Drum Power has supported more than 3,800 young people from New York City and Madison, Wisconsin. Academically, his research centers on youth empowerment teaching to better understand, develop and support student self-efficacy.
Registration
- Pre-registration is required 10 business days before workshop:
- Member* $75
- Non-Member $100
- Collegiate FREE
Questions?
Contact Darin Menk
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)
Integration of Mindfulness Techniques in the Music Classroom – August 15, 2019
Mindfulness is establishing its place in schools across the country as emotional intelligence (E.I) becomes a priority in education. Learn how to integrate E.I. components into your instruction and foster them in your classrooms or rehearsals to help students develop self-awareness and self-regulation skills, empathy and resilience.
Date & Time: Thursday, August 15, 2019 – 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education
Instructor: Michelle Jamieson
In addition to being a Band Director and Music Educator, Michelle Jamieson has been leading mindfulness programs for the past ten years, working in schools, corporations, and medical centers in California. She delivers professional development for teachers and administrators, presents sessions at state and national music conferences, and offers mindfulness tools to musicians at summer camps and conducting symposia.
Michelle has participated in training under the direction of Jon Kabat-Zinn and has completed certification through Mindful Schools. She is passionate about sharing the tools of mindfulness through music, movement, and meditation to help people embrace life and live it to the fullest.
Registration
- Pre-registration is required 10 business days before workshop:
- Member* $75
- Non-Member $100
- Collegiate FREE
Questions?
Contact Darin Menk
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)
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