Wisconsin School Music Association

Growing the future of music education

Ukulele for the Young Musician – July 18, 2019

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Join Will Ulrich as he shares how to start a ukulele program in your school: purchasing and maintaining ukeleles, ukulele resources, games, classroom setup, finding performance opportunities, and teaching methods. If you’ve never played ukulele, this workshop is for you.

If you’ve been playing ukulele, this workshop is for you. Learn about chords, strumming patterns, and basic soloing tips. All participants will have access to Will’s entire ukulele music library! This workshop will cover soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles. Baritone ukuleles would have to adapt instruction.

Date & Time: Thursday, July 18, 2019 – 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Will Ulrich

Will Ulrich received his Bachelors Degree from UW-Milwaukee in 1995. In 2011 he earned his Masters Degree in Curriculum & Instruction from Concordia University-Wisconsin. During the summer, Will teaches the World Music Drumming curriculum across the country. Will has been teaching general music in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, since 1997 at the elementary, middle and high school levels. He also teaches World Music and ukulele at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee.

When he is not teaching music, Will enjoys making instruments for the classroom, performing throughout his community, as well as writing and recording music. Will Ulrich facilitates workshops in cooperative teamwork, multiculturalism through music, ukulele, drumming, and instrument building throughout the United States.

Registration

  • Pre-registration is required 10 business days before workshop:
    • Member*            $75
    • Non-Member     $100
    • Collegiate           FREE

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

*Discounted rate available for members of WMEA, NAfME or staff in WSMA member schools.

Questions?
Contact Darin Menk
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)

Using the WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards in Your Classroom!

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Join us to explore the WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards!  We will look at how the standards are organized, compare them to the National Standards & 1997 Wisconsin Music Standards, examine the new areas of Secondary General, Connecting, Technology,  and use with CMP.

But wait….there’s more!  On the second day, you’ll start working on your plans to incorporate the new Wisconsin Standards in your own school and classroom.  You may look at a piece of music, plan for one class or grade level, or plan a project based unit.  How do the new standards help you to strengthen the learning going on for your students? How can your work be featured on the WMEA Standards website?

Dates: Friday, January 25, 2019 (5:00pm – 9:00pm) and Saturday, January 26, 2019 (9:00am – 4:00pm)

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructors: Members of the WMEA Standards Committee: Paul Budde, UWRF; Christine Hayes, Whitewater; Kate Mitchell, Pewaukee; Leyla Sanyer, Verona; Richard Tengowski, Kohler; Aimee Swanson, East Troy

Registration

  • Pre-registration is required by 1/21/2019
    • Member*            $60
    • Non-Member     $75

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

*Discounted rate available for members of WMEA, NAfME or staff in WSMA member schools.

Questions?
Contact Laurie Fellenz
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)

Brass/Woodwind Instruments: Maintenance, Budgeting, Evaluation and Emergency Repairs – Feb. 16-17 CANCELLED

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In this 2 day hands on session attendees will learn how to straighten minor bent keys, properly replace a missing key cork, replace a cork joint, how to install a pad on a flute, sax and clarinet, and what types of emergency repairs they can  make a quick fix but not ruin the instrument. You will also learn a proper maintenance schedule for all woodwind instruments, procedures you can teach your students to help with proper maintenance and some ideas how to budget for future repairs.

Dates: February 16, 2018 – 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
February 17, 2018 – 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructors:
Joe Braatz, Brass Specialist at Melk Music

Bernadette P. Gonzalez is a Chicago native and earned her Bachelor of Music Education from Western Illinois University in 2003. Before beginning her career in band instrument repair, Bernadette taught band and general music for the Milwaukee Public Schools. She is a 2008 graduate of the Band Instrument Repair Program in Red Wing, MN and immediately began working at Melk Music in Milwaukee, WI as a woodwind technician. She is an active member as a clarinetist and President of the Lakeshore Symphonic Band. She currently teaches privately in the Cedarburg WI area.

Registration

  • Pre-registration (register by 2/9/18)
    • Member*            $130
    • Non-Member     $145
    • Undergraduate   FREE

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

*Discounted rate available for members of WMEA, NAfME or staff in WSMA member schools.

Graduate Credit Information

Participants who attend this workshop have the opportunity to earn one graduate credit for an additional fee of $220. This is a separate registration and fee from the workshop registration. Please download a copy of the Viterbo registration form and mail it with a check for $220 (payable to Viterbo University) to:

Mary Elsner
Wisconsin Center for Music Education
1005 Quinn Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597

  • View the course syllabus (pdf)
  • Viterbo Registration Form (pdf)
  • Visit the Graduate Credit Information page for more details and to sign-up for credit.

Questions?
Contact Mary:  Send a message
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)

The Ripple Effect: Integrating Empathy Building Skills Through Multicultural Music and Children’s Literature – Feb. 9-10 CANCELLED

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This workshop addresses a growing need for building empathy in young students so that they can negotiate the world in a healthy and responsible manner. The workshop also illustrates optimal use of interactive technology like interactive boards, ipads and tablets within an active music making setting. Through movement, singing, playing instruments, body percussion, active listening, and composing activities students work cooperatively, think critically, and refer to collaboration rubrics while developing creative solutions to issues of bullying, gender identity, refugee and immigrant situations, poverty, racial and ethnic similarities and differences, and being labeled and stereotyped.

The empathy building activities are inspired by multicultural music, dance, and diverse children’s books. Children’s literature may be used to build awareness and acceptance of self and others while working toward a common musical objective. Multicultural music and dance are effective conduits into foreign cultures. When handled with respect and integrity, these can be accessed and performed by students outside the native culture with the understanding that the interpretation of the music is framed within parameters of the music teacher’s knowledge of the culture, and its duplication using available materials, instruments, and resources.

Dates: February 9, 2018 – 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
February 10, 2018 – 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Manju Durairaj was born and raised in India. She studied in Pune, India. She was involved in graduate research projects on comparative pedagogical practices of Indian (Carnatic) and Western Music at Middlesex University, London, UK. She graduated with her second master’s degree and K-12 certification from VanderCook College of Music, Chicago. Manju is also certified in Orff- Schulwerk, completing her levels at George Mason University, with master classes at University of St. Thomas, and at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.

Manju currently teaches Pre K-5 general music at the Latin School of Chicago. She is past president of the Greater Chicago Orff Chapter. She teaches technology, curriculum, and general music teacher training courses at VanderCook College of Music, Chicago. She was on the Diversity Commission of the American Orff Schulwerk Association and is on the Elementary General Music Council of IL Music Education Association. She has presented at ISME, AOSA, OAKE, NAfMe, MKMEA, IMEA, ILMEA, WMEA, TMEA and other international and national conferences. She has been published in the Orff Echo, Reverberations, Illinois Music Educators Journal, and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Her publications with Hal Leonard include InterAct with Music Assessment Levels 1 and 2, and Technology in Today’s Music Classroom.

Registration

  • Pre-registration (register by 2/2/18)
    • Member*            $130
    • Non-Member     $145
    • Undergraduate   FREE

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

*Discounted rate available for members of WMEA, NAfME or staff in WSMA member schools.

Graduate Credit Information

Participants who attend this workshop have the opportunity to earn one graduate credit for an additional fee of $220. This is a separate registration and fee from the workshop registration. Please download a copy of the Viterbo registration form and mail it with a check for $220 (payable to Viterbo University) to:

Mary Elsner
Wisconsin Center for Music Education
1005 Quinn Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597

  • View the course syllabus (pdf)
  • Viterbo Registration Form (pdf)
  • Visit the Graduate Credit Information page for more details and to sign-up for credit.

Questions?
Contact Mary:  Send a message
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)

CMP Winter Workshop – Feb. 1-2

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This 2-day weekend course will provide participants with the basic tenets of the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Model (CMP) and offer guided instruction for music educators on implementation of the model in their own classrooms. This workshop is geared toward both teachers with experience in CMP and those who have never attended a CMP workshop. Participants will focus on the five points of the CMP model, engage in some dynamic demo rehearsals, and explore new strategies to revitalize their music classrooms.

Dates: February 1, 2019 – 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
February 2, 2019 – 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructors: Members of the WMEA CMP Committee

Registration

  • Pre-registration (register by 1/26/19)
    • Member*            $130
    • Non-Member     $145
    • Undergraduate   FREE

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

*Discounted rate available for members of WMEA, NAfME or staff in WSMA member schools.

Graduate Credit Information

Participants who attend this workshop have the opportunity to earn one graduate credit for an additional fee of $220. This is a separate registration and fee from the workshop registration. Please download a copy of the Viterbo registration form and mail it with a check for $220 (payable to Viterbo University) to:

Laurie Fellenz
Wisconsin Center for Music Education
1005 Quinn Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597

  • View the course syllabus (pdf)
  • Viterbo Registration Form (pdf)
  • Graduate Credit Information page will be up soon!

Questions?
Contact Laurie Fellenz
800-589-9762, 608-850-3566 (Madison area)

New Edition Available Now!

An educational collaboration by WSMA and PBS Wisconsin Education

Re/sound: Songs of Wisconsin
In a state-wide survey and listening sessions with music educators, we learned about the need for current, authentic, culturally diverse resources, as well as support in teaching with and about music from different cultures. This multimedia collection for general music programs serving grades 4-8 includes video interviews with Wisconsin musicians, performances, audio files, and educator engagement guides designed to help activate the media with learners.

Contact Us

Wisconsin School Music Association 1005 Quinn Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597
608.850.3566
800.589.9762

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M-F 8:00 am - 4:30 pm


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