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.

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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 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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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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 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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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Early childhood music development includes all children ages newborn through eight. Movement and singing are two important and fun components of making music during this important time.

During this workshop, participants will explore pedagogical best practices, research-based activities, and fun interventions that will have everyone exploring movement and voices!

Date & Time: Monday, July 29, 2019 – 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Wisconsin Center for Music Education

Instructor: Dr. Christina Svec

Dr. Christina Svec is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Iowa State University, specializing in elementary and secondary choral music. In addition to her duties at Iowa State, she is Director of Choirs for the Ames Children’s Choirs, serves as treasurer and bookkeeper for the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association, and serves as Midwestern Chair II for the Organization of American Kodály Educators. Dr. Svec received her Ph.D. in Music Education and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from the University of North Texas and her Master of Music Education from Michigan State University.

Before coming to Iowa State, Dr. Svec taught elementary music, early childhood music (ages newborn-4), and early childhood through adult sacred choirs in Texas. She received three Music Learning Theory levels and three Kodály levels from Michigan State University and Texas Tech University, respectively. She has presented both pedagogical and research sessions internationally, nationally, and locally. Dr. Svec is published in Update: Applications of Research in Music Education and in Psychology of Music. Her research interests include research methodology, research pedagogy, and singing voice development.

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