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NEW Date! CMP Winter Workshop – February 6 & 7, 2026

August 8, 2024 By dmenk

Looking to connect with colleagues, reflect on your teaching to date and recharge your batteries for second semester? Our Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) Winter Workshop is just for YOU!

  • Excellent mentor facilitators, inviting space and incredible colleagues await you to bring reflective joy into your next few months with students. Participants will explore the points of the model (selection, analysis, strategies, outcomes, and/or assessment) and come together in community.
  • Teachers of all kinds are welcome! Studio teachers, elementary and secondary general music teachers, band, choir and orchestra teachers…CMP can be used in any music teaching situation.
  • This professional development is designed to give autonomy and agency to music teachers to use the CMP model as it best meets the current needs of their students. The goal is to empower teachers to be their own spokesperson for CMP in their teaching spaces.

Dates and Times: Friday, February 6, 2026, 5:00 – 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 7, 2026, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education at 1005 Quinn Dr. Waunakee, WI 53597
Instructors: CMP Committee Members


 

Registration Information

  • WMEA Members Rate (with NAfME/WMEA Number) – $95.00
  • NAfME Collegiate Rate (with NAfME/WMEA Number) – $30.00
  • Standard Rate (all other attendees or out of state) – $115.00

Cancellation Refund Policy:
A full refund minus $25.00 processing fee will be granted if notification of cancellation is received at learning@wsmamusic.org ten or more days before workshop offering. After that, no refund will be given.

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Tamara Mouw – Biography

May 14, 2020 By thaysk

Tamara Mouw is the Director of Teaching and Learning for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.  In this role, she partners with educators, schools, families, community members, nations, internal and external governmental agencies, and professional organizations to provide leadership, professional learning, and resources to promote equity and advance innovative learning for all students to graduate community, college, and career ready. Previously, Mouw served in the department of curriculum and instruction with the Madison Metropolitan School District and as a reading specialist, coach, and English teacher with the Kimberly Area School District. Mouw’s passion is in equity education where she works to interrupt inequitable practices, examine biases, and create inclusive multicultural school environments for adults and children in order to ensure equally high outcomes for all throughout Wisconsin.

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Steps to Teaching Harmony: Elementary Level – August 13, 2019

May 7, 2019 By lfellenz

This workshop will feature steps to teaching harmony connected to Gordon Learning Theory. More workshop information will follow.

Date & Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 – 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Dr. Heather Shouldice

Dr. Heather Shouldice, Associate Professor of Music Education, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, supervises student teachers, and serves as coordinator of the music education program at EMU. She also serves as faculty advisor for EMU’s collegiate chapter of the National Association for Music Education and directs the early childhood music program through the EMU Community Music Academy.

Dr. Shouldice specializes in early childhood and elementary general music, which she taught for 10 years prior to entering higher education. She has presented workshops and conference sessions for music educators across the country on topics such as early childhood music, effective sequencing of instruction, music literacy, improvisation, and composition in the elementary music classroom. Dr. Shouldice is currently serving as President of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning (GIML) and also serves as a GIML faculty member, teaching summer professional development courses on Music Learning Theory for music educators.


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)

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Movin’ and Groovin’ in the Elementary General Music Classroom – July 30, 2019

May 7, 2019 By lfellenz

Workshop attendees will:

  • Learn assessment strategies
  • Learn new concert programming tools
  • Learn music and movement ideas to use in the elementary music classroom

Movement includes: Small group created dances; creative movement; using children’s literature as a springboard to create movement; Folk Dances

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

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructors: Mary Lea Clark & Sam Cruz

MARY LEA CLARK

  • Retired music specialist: Mequon-Thiensville School District
  • BA: UW-Oshkosh
  • MA in Education: Mount Mary College
  • Beatrice M. Haggerty Scholarship
  • Gunild Keetman Assistance Fund Scholarship
  • Past President: Greater Milwaukee Orff Dimensions
  • Local Conference Chair: 2009 AOSA Professional Development Conference
  • Levels I-III Orff Certification Presented Orff workshops in Southeastern Wisconsin and at WMEA Members of AOSA

SAM CRUZ

  • K4-5 music specialist: Whitefish Bay School District
  • B.F.A. in Music Education: UW-Milwaukee
  • M.A. in Education: Mount Mary College
  • Civic Music Association “General Music Teacher of the Year”
  • Kohl Education Fellowship
  • National Board Certification in Music: Early/Middle Childhood
  • Levels I-III Orff Certification Presented Orff workshops in Southeastern Wisconsin and at WMEA Members of AOSA

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)

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Using the WMEA Standards in Your Classroom! – July 21-23, 2019 (Green Bay)

May 7, 2019 By lfellenz

Join us in Green Bay this summer as we explore the 2019 WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards!  This workshop will examine the WMEA State Music Standards and provide an opportunity for participants to see how master teachers design curriculum and instruction in band, choir, orchestra, and K-12 general music.  Additional areas of discussion will include the recently added Secondary General, Connecting, Technology, and Use with CMP sections.

But wait….there’s more!  After reviewing the WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards, you will have the opportunity to collaborate and design meaningful instruction for your school and classroom.  You can look at a piece of music, plan for one class or grade level, and or plan a project-based unit.  Ultimately, you will design meaningful instruction that will help maximize your students’ capacities to learn and grow as musicians and individuals.

Dates: Sunday, July 21 (12 p.m. – 4 p.m.); Monday, July 22 (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.), and Tuesday, July 23 (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

Location: CESA 7 – Green Bay (Sunday & Monday) and Ashwaubenon Community Center (Tuesday)

Instructors: Selected 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 7/5/2019
    • Member*            $150
    • Non-Member     $175

Register Online
Print Registration Form (pdf)

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

Note that rate includes all registration costs and full lunch on first day.


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

Filed Under: 2019-2020, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Uncategorized

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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.
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