Join us as we kick off the 2019-20 school year with 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: Monday, August 19 & Tuesday, August 20, 2019 – 9:00am – 4:30pm

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, DC 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.

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Registration

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

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

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 – 9:00am – 4:30pm

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.

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Registration

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

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

Disciplinary Literacy Tools in the Arts – This interactive session will include activities that support the use of disciplinary literacy tools- writing, reading, thinking, listening, speaking, and performing to deepen student arts learning.

Arts Assessment and Application – Join us for a review of arts assessment strategies, methods of data collection, and additional application in the arts. Bring your laptop or tablet with you for the session.

Date & Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 – 9:00am – 2:00pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Dr. Julie A. Palkowski

Dr. Julie A. Palkowski is the Fine Arts and Creativity Education Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. She has previously served as an arts administrator with school districts in Rockford, Illinois and Madison, Wisconsin. In her current position, she is a liaison to various boards including the Wisconsin School Music Association, Wisconsin Art Education Association, the Alliance for Wisconsin Theatre Education, and the Wisconsin Dance Council. Julie has facilitated arts education sessions focused on pedagogy, program development, arts integration, disciplinary literacy in the arts, and technology throughout Wisconsin.

Prior to these positions and activities, Dr. Palkowski worked as a Title I Instructional Supervisor, a K4-8th Grade Principal, Music Teacher, and Summer Enrichment Coordinator. She has led multiple standards reviews as a Fine Arts Administrator with two school districts, as a Principal, and as a State Education Agency Consultant. Additional research experiences include serving as a doctoral chair and mentor for graduate and doctoral students, and as an external research team member for the Madison Metropolitan School District. National work includes Dr. Palkowski’s service as President to the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, where she also was an active member to the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards (2015-2017). Julie served as a reviewer for the Nebraska Art Standards, the Colorado Music Standards, and the Minnesota Music Standards. She has worked as a collaborator to the National Core Arts Standards Dance Leadership Writing Team. Dr. Palkowski has participated as a session panelist and reviewer for organizations such as the Arts Education Partnership, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts. She continues to support the nationwide work of the Arts Education Data Project as a Co-Chair.

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Registration

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

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

This workshop offers accessible, hands-on and user-friendly composition and improvisation classroom techniques for band, orchestra, choir and general music teachers. Learn to compose and improvise in and introduce your students to different styles using contemporary classical, jazz, blues, Arabic taqasim, and non-style specific approaches.

Composition techniques include invented notation, artwork as score, building a compositional toolbox, and motivic development. Improvisation techniques include sound exploration, soundscapes, rhythm pieces, call and response, simple chord/mode/scale associations and conducted improvisation (conduction).

Date & Time: Monday, August 12, 2019 – 9:00am – 4:30pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Matt Turner

Matt Turner, cellist, pianist, and composer, teaches in the Jazz & Improvisational Music Department at Lawrence University. Improvising in myriad styles, Turner appears on over 100 recordings and has performed in Canada, Europe, and Asia.

He currently performs with Bill Carrothers, Janet Planet, Randy Sabien,and Hal Rammel. Turner is a Yamaha and D’Addario Performing Artist, and his music is published by Carl Fischer, Alfred, Latham, Berklee Press, and Alliance.

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Registration

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

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

Join us for a day of exploration with this introduction to the Dalcroze Eurhythmics approach to music education. Eurhythmics can be used in any music classrooms no matter the focus or size.

Whether you are interested in finding fun ways to incorporate discriminatory listening and movement into your instruction, additional ways to connect to your students that can’t sit still for more than five minutes, are looking for more ways to improve your ensembles musicianship, or need more strategies to help your private students, we will explore various eurhythmics exercises that can help all students build a deep kinesthetic connection to the music they make and interact with in your class.

Date & Time: Thursday, August 1, 2019 – 9:00am – 4:30pm

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Blake Schlarmann

Blake Schlarmann has been teaching elementary music in Whitehall, WI, for the past five years. She recieved her bachelors in music education from the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire and recently earned her masters from the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she studied both Orff-Schulwerk and Dalcroze Eurhythmics.

Ms. Schlarmann has completed all of her Orff levels and is currently working with the American Eurhythmics Society to finish her certification in eurhythmics. Though she greatly enjoys working with elementary aged students, she also utilizes eurhythmics with senior citizens in the community.

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Registration

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

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