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CONTENTS • President’s Message: A Forward Thinking Vision for California Music Education

by CMEA President Michael D. Stone

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• At the Start of a New School Year

by Kate Francis, CMEA CODA Representative

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• Former CMEA President Carolynn A. Lindeman Elected to NAfME Hall of Fame

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• The Merits of Membership

by Brad North, CMEA Capitol Section President

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• CMEA Bay Section News

by Todd Summers, Bay CMEA Section President

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• Product vs. Process – Calibrating General Music Instructional Goals

by Richard Lawton, CMEA General Music Representative

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• CASMEC’s Last Waltz in Fresno

by Bill Wilkinson, CMEA CASMEC Logistics Coordinator and CMEA Representative on the CBDA Board

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• Music Tech is Everywhere

by James Knight, CMEA Music Technology Representative

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• Choral Leadership Academy 2015

by Merryl Nelson, CMEA CA ACDA Representative

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• Meet the CMEA State Council

by CMEA President Michael D. Stone

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• CMEA Receives National Awards

by CMEA President Michael D. Stone

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• Numerous California Music Students Selected for 2014 NAfME Honor Ensembles

by CMEA President Michael D. Stone

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• Collegiate Advocacy Summit at NAfME

by Allison McKay, California Representative at the NAfME Collegiate Advocacy Summit

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• U.S. Postal Service Form 3526 – Statement of Ownership

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• CMEA Position Statement on STEAM Education

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• Higher Education Happenings

by Dr. Lawrence F. Stoffel, CMEA Higher Education Representative

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President’s Message

A Forward Thinking Vision for California Music Education

by Michael D. Stone CMEA President

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s you read this article you will likely be experiencing the start of an exciting new school year. I can think of no greater profession than that of music education. Music educators are some of the most dedicated and passionate individuals in the workforce. The California Music Educators Association (CMEA) has undergone dynamic changes over the past few years. We are now observing expansion of school music programs in many parts of California, in part due to a steadily-growing economy and new education funding provided via the new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). CMEA is ready to support that expansion. Remember that our Vision is simple: “The California Music Educators Association’s vision is to ensure that all California students have equal access to a first-class education in music.”

In this issue you will be introduced to the 2014–2016 CMEA State Council. Each member of this esteemed body will conduct the work of the association in alignment with our five-year Strategic Plan, of which we are about to enter year three. Let me share with you some of our recent work and planning for the future in the four strategic plan mission areas of advocacy, leadership, communication, and membership services.

CMEA’s Advocacy Mission Area: 2014 NAfME “Excellence in Advocacy Award”

In the Summer Issue of CMEA Magazine, you read that CMEA led the 2nd Annual Stand Up 4 Music (SU4M) California Music Education Advocacy Day that was held at the State Capitol on May 22, 2014. The Stand Up 4 Music Coalition (www.standup4music.org), which includes eleven professional music educator associations and citizens who support music education, is part of CMEA’s new advocacy infrastructure that will assist us in reaching our vision of providing all California students access to music education. Several firsts happened at this year’s event: • CMEA welcomed celebrity spokesman Kenny G to speak at the noontime press conference on the West Capitol steps; • A record forty music education leaders and guests from the SU4M Coalition served as members of the legislative visitation team; • SU4M Leaders visited a record 25-plus legislative offices throughout the day; • CMEA hand-delivered the new National Association forMusic Fall Issue 2014

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Education’s (NAf ME’s) Broader Minded advocacy materials to all 125 California legislators; • Four California school bandsparticipated in the event by performing at the Capitol between 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (These select bands also performed at the CMEA State Band and Orchestra Festival the next day in Stockton); • Legislators introduced bandstudents

CMEA EXECUTIVE BOARD CMEA President Michael D. Stone E-mail: stonem@bcsd.com Work: 661 631-4810 CMEA President-Elect Scott Hedgecock E-mail: scotchdir@aol.com Work: 714 626-3984 CMEA Vice President Steven Hendee E-mail: sjhendee@sbcglobal.net CMEA Secretary Duane Otani E-mail: Dotani916@yahoo.com Work: 858 485-4800 CMEA Immediate Past President Russ Sperling E-mail: rsperli@cox.net Work: 858 292-3547 CMEA Administrative Coordinator Trish Adams E-mail: cmea@calmusiced.com CMEA Office 2417 North 11th Avenue Hanford, CA 93230 Work: 559 587-2632 Cell: 559 904-2002 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CMEA Bay Section President Todd Summers E-mail: tsummers@pausd.org Work: 650 354-8264 CMEA Capitol Section President Brad North E-mail: bnorth@rjuhsd.us Work: 916 771-6565 x 4600 CMEA Central Section President Leonard Ingrande E-mail: lingrande@centralusd.k12.ca.us Work: 559 276-0280

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from their districts performing at the State Capitol; • The largest crowd yet, approximately 150 citizens, gathered at the State Capitol for the noontime press conference; • Senator Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) and Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), spoke at the noontime press conference providing legislator participation; • CMEA Lobbyist Lynne Faulks and I

CMEA Central Coast Section President Willow Manspeaker E-mail: wmanspeaker@ stevensonschool.org Work: 831 588-8486 CMEA North Coast Section President Judi Sharnberg E-mail: judimusic@gmail.com CMEA Northern Section President Todd A. Filpula E-mail: tfilpula@chicousd.org Work: 530 891-3026 x 321

conducted a debrief meeting at the conclusion of the legislative visits so that key data could be collected from those who had visited legislators; and, • CMEA Leaders were provided with access to the governor’s office where a meeting was held with key staff, including those from the State Board of Education.

There were many lessons learned at this year’s SU4M Advocacy Day. It is

CMEA CAJ Representative Michael Galisatus E-mail: galisatus@comcast.net and galisatusm@smccd.edu Work: 650 574-6163 CMEA CBDA Representative Norm Dea E-mail: normdea@yahoo.com Work: 925 280-3970 x 7327 CMEA CODA Representative Kate Francis E-mail: mskatefrancis@gmail.com Work: 408 535-6300 x 29159

CMEA Southeastern Section Designated Contact Armalyn De La O E-mail: adelao@csusb.edu Work: 909 537-5938

CMEA CASMEC Coordinator/ CMEA Representative on the CBDA Board Bill Wilkinson E-mail: bwilkinsoncmea@ gmail.com Work: 559 585-3870

CMEA Southern Border Section President Pauline Crooks E-mail: Pauline.crooks@gmail.com Work: 858 485-4850 x 4027

CMEA General Music Representative Richard Lawton E-mail:richard@ richardlawtonmusic.com Work: 323 654-4401

CMEA Southwestern Section President Lisa A. Crawford E-mail: cmeasouthwestern@ gmail.com.

Work: 213 740-6935

CMEA Music Technology Representative James Knight E-mail: jamesknight@mac.com Work: 714 536-2514 x 4116,

NAf ME OFFICERS NAfME President Dr. Glenn E. Nierman 1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston, VA 22091 800 336-3768 NAfME Western Division President Dr. David C. Fullmer Tucson, AZ 85704 COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES CMEA CA ACDA Representative Merryl Nelson E-mail: mnelson@gladdemusic.com Work: 619 660-4000 x 3009

CMEA Membership Chairperson Regina Pryor E-mail: reginapryor78@gmail.com Work: 661 831-8331 CMEA Mentorship Program Chairperson Mark Nicholson E-mail: mnicholson@sandi.net Work: 858 256-2702 CMEA Music Supervisors Representative Fillmore Rydeen E-mail: fillmore.rydeen@ ousd.k12.ca.us Work: 510 336-7609 CMEA Collegiate Representative Dr. John Eros E-mail: john.eros@ csueastbay.edu Work: 510 885-3135 CMEA Tri-M Representative Elizabeth Robertson E-mail: erobertson@petk12.org Work: 707 769-9650 CMEA Higher Education Representative Dr. Lawrence Stoffel E-mail: stoffel@csun.edu Work: 818 677-3160

CMEA Advocacy Representative Steve Venz E-mail: stevenvenz@yahoo.com Work: 323 224-3100

CMEA Research/Special Learners Representative Dr. Ruth Brittin E-mail: rbrittin@pacific.edu Work: 209 946-2408

CMEA State Band and Orchestra Festival Chairperson Jim Mazzaferro E-mail: jmazzafe@egusd.net Work: 916 681-7500

CMEA World Music Representative Dr. Lily Chen-Hafteck E-mail: lhafteck@ucla.edu Work: 310 825-4668

CMEA State Solo and Ensemble Festival Chairperson Cheryl Yee Glass E-mail: cglass@srvhs.org Work: 925 552-3044

CMEA Retired Members Representative Jon Christian E-mail: jonchristian41@gmail.com

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now clear to me that when we seek sponsorship of legislation to support music education in California, it is critical that we have the support of the Educational Coalition in Sacramento, which includes teacher groups, administrators, governmental leaders, and the community.

CMEA will focus upon various campaigns to inform the public of the fact that California law requires children to have music education in Grades 1–6, and be provided access to music classes in Grades 7–12. It is likely that the SU4M Coalition will be looking for sponsorship of a bill authorizing the California Department of Education to proceed with creating new California State Standards for Music, in alignment with the recently released new National Core Music Standards, by the end of 2015.

Current adoption timelines for new music standards in California are slated for 2017. California should be a leader in adopting the most up-to-date and rigorous standards in the nation.

On Friday, June 27, 2014, at the NAf ME National Assembly in Vienna, VA, NAf ME President Glenn E.

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Nierman recognized CMEA with the 2014 “NAf ME Excellence in Advocacy Award,” recognizing our work in the area of music education advocacy. The creation of the SU4M Coalition, as well as the hiring of a music education lobbyist, were mentioned as recent accomplishments in California.

We are only at the beginning of our work leading the SU4M Coalition. As I like to say: “The sky’s the limit!”

CMEA’s Leadership Mission Area: New Collegiate Council and Mentorship Programs to be Unveiled at CASMEC in 2015

I am excited to announce that the CMEA Board of Directors recently introduced two major projects that will support new and future music educators.

A first-ever CMEA Collegiate Council is being planned this fall by representatives from each section of the Association. Under the leadership of Dr. John D. Eros, coordinator of the music education program at California State University, East Bay, the Collegiate Council Planning Committee will create a model program for supporting

California’s future music education leaders. Paramount to the work of the Collegiate Council will be providing feedback to the CMEA Board of Directors as to how teacher preparation programs in California can better meet their needs. The council will also be a conduit of professional learning in the various areas of music education.

Members will be selected for the first council by the 2015 California All-State Music Education Conference (CASMEC) in Fresno.

The new CMEA Mentorship Program will serve the needs of first and second year music educators in California. It is crucial that teachers entering the profession have a variety of supports to assist them through the challenging first two years of teaching. Mr. Mark Nicholson, music supervisor with the San Diego Unified School District, will be leading the Mentorship Planning Committee in their work putting this initiative into place. Representatives from each CMEA Section will be involved in the planning of the new Mentorship Program.

I have taken time to read some of the

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various Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP’s) that have been posted on district websites this summer after the June 30th deadline for submission to the County Office of Education as required by law. It is clear that the LCFF is resulting in new music teacher positions being funded throughout the state. The LCFF requires that all spending of new funds under the LCFF be aligned with eight state priorities. Music education can be seen through the lens of many of these eight priorities. Priority number 7 states the following: “The extent to which pupils have access to, and are enrolled in, a broad course of study...”

This priority supports ensuring all children have access to music education.

Other priorities for the LCFF include those in the areas of parental involvement, school climate, and student engagement. It is clear that governing boards across California have observed that music programs engage students, involve parents in the educational process, and improve the school climate.

While time will tell if the LCFF provides a sustainable expansion of music education programs in California,

an early look provides an optimistic point of view.

CMEA’s Membership Services and Communication Mission Areas: 2014 NAfME Membership Campaign Award

The phrase “passionately persistent” can be applied to efforts finally completed, making it possible for the CMEA State Band and Orchestra Festival to move to the world-class Mondavi Center, located on the campus of UC Davis, in 2015. After years of negotiations, a deal was finally reached in April that made it possible for CMEA to provide this experience to music students and their directors throughout the state.

This example is just the latest of many recent steps taken by CMEA leaders to enhance membership services. CMEA membership is clearly becoming more attractive as professional music educators throughout the state see direct results of their membership dollar in action.

On Saturday, June 28, 2014, at the NAf ME National Assembly, NAf ME Immediate Past President Nancy Ditmer recognized CMEA with the 2014

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“Excellence in Membership Award,” recognizing CMEA’s successful membership campaign during the 2013–2014 school year. California produced the largest percentage growth in membership in the nation during that period of time, over 10 percent. I would like to acknowledge and thank CMEA Membership Chairperson Regina Pryor, and the entire State Membership Committee and volunteers, for their work putting California 1st in the nation in NAf ME membership growth. As we work to build a large constituency to influence policy makers in Sacramento, membership growth matters. We will reach for another 10 percent of growth during this school year. In this issue, you will see a centerfold pull-out that includes directions on how to join CMEA/NAf ME. Please pass this handout to a new music teacher in your area.

We need their voice to be heard, and joining NAf ME/CMEA provides the member with so many benefits. Our music education lobbyist in Sacramento is just one example.

I hope that you will have an exciting year of music making. Thank you for all that you do to inspire children through

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1966–1968

1982–1984

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CMEA Hall of Fame Award Honoring Lifetime Achievement in Music Education Award Recipients

Clarence Heagy

Kenneth D. Owens

David S. Goedecke

Dennis L. Johnson

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Jon Christian, 2014; Orrin Cross, 2013;

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Gerald E. Anderson, 2012; Gayanne

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Judd Chew

1984–1986

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Korkmazian, 2012; Dr. David Whitwell, 2011;

Elwyn Schwartz

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Vivian M. Hofstetter

George DeGraffenreid

Nicholas Angiulo, 2010; Vincent Gomez, 2010;

Bakersfield

Fresno

Robert W. Lutt, 2009; Kem F. Martinez, 2009;

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1970–1972

George F. Barr

Anthony L. Campagna

1986–1988

2002–2004

Foster City

John L. Larrieu

Sam Gronseth

Portola

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Carl W. Schafer, 2009; Terry Summa, 2008;

Fred Ohlendorf

1972–1974

Long Beach

Louis Nash

1988–1990

2004–2006

La Crescenta

L. Leroy Roach

Rob Klevan

Walnut Creek

Pacific Grove

1955–1957

Duane Weston, 2008; John Larrieu, 2007; Barbara Cory Black, 2007; Bill Ingram, 2007; Mary Val Marsh, 2007; Carolynn A. Lindeman, 2006; Joe Foster, 2006; Paul Shaghoian, 2006; Frances Benedict, 2005; L. Leroy Roach, 2005; Silvester McElroy, 2005;

Harold Youngberg

1974–1976

Oakland

Marlow Earle

1990–1992

2006–2008

Jerry Kirkpatrick, 2005; Robert Greenwood,

Lakewood

Carolynn A. Lindeman

Cheryl Yee Glass

2004; Arthur Huff, 2004; Lyle Stubson, 2004;

Greenbrae

Danville

1957–1960

Lois Vidt, 2004; John Farr, 2003;

Joseph W. Landon

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Fullerton

Mary C. Reed

1992–1994

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Elk Grove

Bill Adam

Jeff Jenkins

Roseville

Chula Vista

Helynn Manning, 2001; Wesley “Colonel”

Henry Avila

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F. John Pylman, 2000; Lawrence Sutherland,

Monterey

Don Doyle

Norman Dea

1999; Chuck Schroeder, 1998; Dean Semple,

Pasadena

Walnut Creek

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Douglas Kidd 1962–1964

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Keith D. Snyder Davis

Mary Louise Reilly, 2002; William Hill, 2001; Moore, 2001; Vivian Hoffstetter, 2000;

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Gibson Walters San José

Thomas Eagan, 2003; Larry Johnson, 2002;

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1997; Burl Walter Jr., 1996; Jerry Moore,

Charles L. Freebern

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Jay D. Zorn

Russ Sperling

Mike Pappone, 1992; David Goedecke, 1991;

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Marlowe Earle, 1987; Arthur Dougherty, 1985; William Burke, 1983; Aubrey Penman, 1981; Steve Connolly, 1979;; Howard Swan, 1977;

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Newer, Smoother and Better Beginnings

At the Start of a New School Year

by Kate Francis CMEA CODA Representative

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lthough I never stop thinking about school and work completely, it is still hard to get my head wrapped around starting each new school year. The beginning of a school year is a time to try something new, a time to fix what could have been better last year. Each school year should run more smoothly than the previous. With this thought I am getting ready for the upcoming school year and I would like to share with you what I will do to make the orchestra room at Fisher Middle School more efficient before it is flooded with young, energetic musicians.

Music I do not think there is a teacher out there who enjoys it when a student “forgets” their music or “loses” their music. My blood boils each time I hear, “someone stole my music!” or “I was practicing at home…” and you know the rest of the story. Joe DeMarsh, my master teacher from my student teaching, shared with me the secret to this problem. Hand each student a practice part to take home and then one part for the binder that stays at school. So when I pass out music I pass out three parts per stand. One for stand partner “A,” one for stand partner “B,” and one for the binder. I also keep all of our current music in a file cabinet that is accessible by the students.

If a student needs an extra part they go to the file cabinet, and take what they need.

Pencils I feel my blood pressure rising again as I write about students not having pencils. I think it is important to teach young musicians how to mark their music so the markings are relevant to help them in rehearsal. After many, many, lost minutes of waiting for students to find a pencil I decided to have a pencil box in my classroom. I took this idea from Anne-Marie Katemopoulos, choir director at Abraham Lincoln High School. She has a five-gallon tub, half full of pencils when you walk in her room. The result, her students always have a pencil and she is not asking them “where is your pencil?”

Cellphones I am sure you have seen phones being used in creative ways in your class for good and bad. This past school year was the first time Fall Issue 2014

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I had a sincere problem with phones and students. When talking to Jenna Baumgart, orchestra director at West Jordan High School, she told me her fix for the problem was a “cellphone motel.”

She took an old mailbox with many slots, took the front door off, and her students would put their phones in the “cellphone motel” at the beginning of each class. I took this one step further, at each concert I have a cellphone check in. If a student checks in their cellphone they get 100 extra credit points, and their cellphone sits in a bin until the end of the concert.

At the end of last year we went “old school” at concerts, no selfies, texting, or surfing the web, just music.

Instrument Checkout Checking out instruments eats up a lot of instructional time at the beginning of the school year. I notice the students come in, excited, ready to play, but it takes a few days to check-out instruments. I have tried many different ways to prepare for this and here is what I have had the most success with. If you roughly know who needs instruments, fill out instrument rental agreements and assign instruments and lockers before

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school starts. Then on the first day of school, give the students their instruments with the pre-filled out form, all they have to do is take it home for the signature.

Strings Loose strings are a mess and little packets of strings can easily get misplaced and put in the wrong pile. To fix this problem I took a very large binder, filled it with 12 plastic sleeves (sheet protectors, the ones that can hold paper), and in each plastic sleeve protector put one type of string in it. So there is a page for violin A, D, G, E, viola, C, D, G, A, and cello C, D, G, A. This has kept the strings organized and I can quickly see what string type we are running out of.

Streamlining the classroom is an ongoing process that takes time and thought. Sometimes the smallest changes make the classroom a better rehearsal space.

Congratulations to the following California students who were accepted into the All-National Honor Orchestra.

They will perform at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee as part of the NAf ME National In-Service

Conference on October 29, 2014. This is a huge honor and I am so proud that they are representing the state of California: Christina Chung El Toro High School, Lake Forest.

Celia Daggy Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica.

Grace Gee, Woodbridge High School, Irvine.

Liam Glendening, Redlands High School, Redlands.

Claire Lee, Northwood High School, Irvine.

Christopher Pak, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica.

Enoch Park, Palos Verdes High School, Palos Verdes.

Michael Suh, Northwood High School, Irvine.

Last, please visit the CODA website, codaorchestras.org for information about auditioning for the Junior High School and High School All-State Honor Orchestras.

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Carolynn A. Lindeman, Former President of NAfME and CMEA, Elected to the Music Educators Hall of Fame he National Association for Music Education (NAfME) announces the latest inductees to the Music Educators Hall of Fame: Carolynn A. Lindeman, Benjamin Jepson, and John P. Paynter. Jepson and Paynter were inducted posthumously.

In addition to serving on the original task force of writers for the Music Standards, Lindeman was instrumental in pursuing many of the MENC materials designed to supplement and explain the National Standards, including publications such as Benchmarks in Action, Standard 4 Benchmarks, and the fourteen-volume Strategies for Teaching series, on which she served as series editor.

She currently is a member of the Music Standards Writing Team for the new National Core Arts Standards, scheduled to be released in June.

From1973–2005, Lindeman was professor of music at San Francisco State Carolynn Lindeman addresses the CMEA Conference in Sacramento in 2002. Photo by Mark Morris University, where she is now professor emerita.

Lindeman accepted her award at the 2014 NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. She was president of MENC, now NAfME, from 1996–98.

In accepting her induction she said: “Thank you to the National Association for Music Education for this humbling honor. It’s indeed a privilege to be inducted with two outstanding music educators.

“I probably will always say that my best teachers were my students – from the wonderful elementary school students in my early career to a most interesting and diverse group of students at San Francisco State University,” Lindeman said.

“Music is power to those who know its secrets, and that’s why we want our students to have the opportunity to experience strong school music programs so that they may be prepared to enjoy a lifetime of discovering music’s secrets. With each and every one of us doing our part, I know that we can ignite that spark to turn students on to the power of music and keep our school music programs strong,” she added.

For more information on the Music Educators Hall of Fame visit musiced.nafme.org/about/music-educators-hall-of-fame/purposeand-procedure/.

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The Merits of Membership

by Brad North CMEA Capitol Section President

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els which makes me a better advocate for my own program, and to help my students. Again, being honest, isn’t helping all students the main reason we all became teachers in the first place?

One of the biggest complaints from music teachers, especially young teachers, is they feel like they are alone on an island with no one else at their site to talk to, not sure who to turn to for help. I know, I have felt that way many times. However, I learned I am not alone. There are literally thousands of other music teachers in California and I just needed to connect with them. Involvement in CMEA gave me that connection. I feel so fortunate to have been able to get to know and work with outstanding leaders in music education, such as Bill Burke, John Larrieu, Aubrey Penman, Russ Sperling and Norm Dea, to name just a few. And at the local level, my involvement has given me the opportunity to connect with hundreds of music teachers dealing with the same daily issues that I deal with, and more importantly, they all want to share teaching strategies and solutions to problems or issues. Like all of us, they want to be part of a team.

One example I would like to share is my friendship with Dave Green, a recently retired teacher from Truckee, California. Without my involvement in CMEA, Dave and I more than likely would have never met and I would have missed out on a wealth of knowl-

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s most of you know, the past few years have been a renaissance for the California Music Educators Association and the National Association for Music Education. For a long time the question amongst music teachers was why be a member of CMEA and NAf ME? Unfortunately we, the local and state CMEA leadership, didn’t have an answer. CMEA had become in many ways irrelevant and outdated. I am happy to say, as most of you know, this is no longer the case. Under the bold leadership of a number of California music educators, CMEA has become the leading voice in the state for a sequential, accessible music education for all students.

As CMEA continues to grow in membership services and advocacy programs the question is no longer “Why be a member of CMEA?” but “Why serve on a CMEA board at the local or state level?” It is easy to come up with lots of reasons not to get involved: too busy with my own program, family, etc. Trust me, as I am writing this article on a beautiful summer morning, I can think of a number of reasons to let others do the work. However, there are three reasons that have made my twenty-plus years of service in CMEA worth it. These are the professional and personal friendships I have enjoyed over the years, the first hand knowledge of what is going on in music education at both the state and local lev-

edge and inspiration. You see, Dave would do things like drive from Truckee to Sacramento with a van full of students to participate in auditions for our Capitol Section Honor Band. This is about a two hour drive, however many times it would take much longer because of snow. Once there, Dave would jump in and start flute chair placement auditions and then help with sectionals. Rehearsal always ends at 9:00 p.m., and off they would go, back to Truckee. Hopefully the students would be back at school around 11:00 p.m., and Dave would make it back to his home in Reno at about midnight. The next morning at 6:30 p.m., Dave would be at Truckee High School for zero period Jazz Band rehearsal. Not once, in over the twenty years I have known Dave, have I heard him ever complain about the late nights, early mornings or long weekends away from home. As Dave would say, “It’s what we do.” Dave’s positive attitude is infectious. There have been many a late night and early morning when I want to complain or give up.

But then I think of Dave, get a smile on my face, and remember I am not the only

one doing this. I have friends and support all due to my involvement in CMEA. The second benefit of being actively involved in CMEA is your access to information. As a board member, I am “in the loop” as to what is happening in music education at both the state and local levels. Over the past two to three years our CMEA state board meetings have included an in-service by our leaders from NAf ME. The strategies and information they have shared has helped me be a better advocate at the local level.

With all of the changes in education, LCAP money, the movement to common core and new guidelines to our state education funding, it is important to be aware of how all of this has the potential to affect music education. As an active member, at either the state or local level, you have far greater access to this information, and to a support network of state and local music educators, administrators and lobbyists, as well as our national association’s leadership.

The third and final reason to become involved with CMEA is of course, the

kids. The sole purpose of CMEA is to support all music teachers and music education at all levels, K–12 and at our colleges and universities. Some of my favorite memories are introducing our local honor groups, attending our Golden Empire Music Festivals, and presenting our outstanding local music educators with award recognition in front of their band, choir, orchestra or general music class. There is such a feeling of accomplishment after a long weekend helping at CASMEC, taking the time to help with Stand Up for Music at our state’s capital, or attending a state or local board meeting and seeing the growth in music education. Simply put, it is fun to see excitement on the students’ faces as they perform, to see the appreciation of a colleague honored for their excellent teaching and dedication, and (my favorite) meeting all of the music teachers as they stop by the CMEA booth at CASMEC. If I hadn’t gotten involved in CMEA leadership, had I let somebody else do it instead, I would not have experienced any of these amazing benefits.

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CMEA Bay Section News

by Todd SummersCMEA Bay Section President

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hope the summer has been rejuvenating for everyone. If you are like many of us, you have spent your summer reconnecting with family, relaxing, re-educating, rejuvenating, and getting re-inspired for the coming year! CMEA continues to grow and evolve and I invite you to take advantage of the opportunity to get involved, share ideas, and be a part of developing our state association as well as your section association. As I begin my term as president of the CMEA Bay Section I want to thank Dr. Andy Collinsworth for his outstanding leadership over the past two years. I am looking forward to working with CMEA President Michael Stone and the board of directors as CMEA continues to move forward with our strategic plan. A special thanks to everyone who participated in the very successful 2014 CMEA-led Stand Up 4 Music (SU4M) California Music Education Advocacy Day that was held May 22, 2014.

CMEA Bay Section is dedicated to providing music educators with professional development opportunities and high quality music festivals. Among our ranks are exceptional music educators who volunteer their time to make our organization an outstanding model in the state.

President-Elect Executive Treasurer Past-President Executive Secretary/ Webmaster Recording Secretary Adjudication Band Representative Assistant Band Representative Choral Representative Choral Assistant Representative Jazz Representative Orchestra Representative Assistant Orchestra Representative Classroom/Gen Music Public Relations Conference Host Large Group Festivals Solo/Ensemble Solo/Ensemble Assistant Higher Ed Representative Medals Representative Multicultural Representative Technology Representative Tempo Editor

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Festivals

CMEA Bay Section sponsors more than 40 festivals that serve approximately 40,000 music students throughout the Bay Area.

These festivals provide students and educators with a highly educational experience including critical performance feedback, an assessment of sight reading skills, and opportunities to hear other student groups. For information about any of our festivals and a calendar of events, please visit the Bay Section website at www.cmeabaysection.org Winter Conference

The Bay Section Winter Conference is open to any CMEA member throughout the state, and is a great way for you to invest in yourself. College credit is also available for those looking to add professional growth units. Our conference will be held at Chabot College January 9–10, 2015. Information can be found on our website, www.cmeabaysection.org At our 2014 Conference we honored the following educators: The CMEA Bay Section Outstanding Music Educator Award was presented to Diana Hollinger, San José State University.

Ross School Venetia Valley School Valley View Middle School College Park High School Horner Junior High School Alvarado Middle School Blaker-Kinser Junior High School Toyon Middle School Redwood Middle School Saratoga High School El Camino High School Alta Loma Middle School River School Benicia Middle School Silver Creek High School William C. Overfelt High School Sonoma State University

The Gilbert T. Freitas Memorial Award, for an instrumental music educator with more than seven years experience, co-sponsored by Best Instrument Repair Company, was presented to Jonathan Grantham, Amador Valley High School.

The Outstanding Choral Educator Award, co-sponsored by J.W. Pepper was presented to Paul Lorigan, Horner Junior High School.

The Outstanding Jazz Educator Award, co-sponsored by J.W. Pepper was presented to Greg Brown, Northgate High School.

The Gilbert T. Freitas Memorial Award, for an instrumental music educator with less than seven years experience, co-sponsored

by Best Instrument Repair Company, was presented to Keith Johnson, El Cerrito High School.

The Outstanding Orchestra Director Award, co-sponsored by Kamimoto String Instruments was presented to Sandra Lewis, Henry M. Gunn High School.

The Outstanding General/Classroom Music Award, co-sponsored by J.W. Pepper, was presented to Jeremiah Jacks, White Hill Middle School.

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Product vs. Process – Calibrating General Music Instructional Goals

by Richard Lawton CMEA General Music Representative

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t is a fundamental question in the general music classroom: should the primary instructional goal be developing students’ performance ability – product – or to develop their overall musical understanding and fluency by encouraging musical behavior – process? All good music programs contain elements of both, of course, but there are important ways the trajectory of these objectives diverge. The question becomes, what then?

The virtues of performance as the central goal are well established. Working in an ensemble promotes teamwork and the development of mastery. Being in an ensemble or part of a performance requires students to practice at home and to read music, skills that are often less successfully addressed in general music class. Performances are also one of the most direct ways a teacher can assess what their students have learned, and the most direct way teacher performance can be assessed. On top of that, being in an ensemble is fun.

But there are limitations, the chief one being that, while we may argue that music education is right for all children, being in the band is clearly not. Students who possess (or whose parents believe they possess) a natural musical aptitude may embrace the challenge associated with performance, but a greater number will not, having already concluded that performing music is “too hard.” In trying to convince them otherwise, we teachers are competing with several hundred years of emphasis on virtuosity and an endless supply of online videos of kids doing astonishing musical things, all of which seem to prove that music is for the gifted few.

The pressures associated with performance excellence do not affect the students alone. My school has a winter festival, in which all 500-plus students perform. It is one of the highlights of the year, but I never like the kind of teacher I become at that time, as my focus shifts inevitably to the end result. Suddenly things like getting them to bow together or enter and exit in a organized way begin to compete with the development of real musical understanding. By the time the show rolls around, the pleasure of simply being in the groove together can be lost.

Like a lot of generalists, I am drawn to process, an outlook which, I am sure, arises in part from being a terrible practice musician and a white-knuckle performer myself. My first school had a separate choir director and band director, and I was delighted when I was told that it was their job to put on shows and that mine was to focus on fundamentals. Over time, however, my thinking about this has evolved. The longer I teach the more I am convinced that music instruction, even at the elemen-

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tary school level, must contain a performance component to be complete, and not just culminating classroom sharing, but full-on shows. As David Elliot and others have pointed out, the appropriate objective of all music education is to have students perform music.1 Apart from completing the experience, performing in front of an audience allows students to develop critical skills such as the ability to make real-time adjustments that are highly desirable and cannot be obtained from classroom exercises.

If, however, performance is to be a central focus in general music, strategies must be developed to keep all students engaged. It is well established that teaching within the Zone of Proximal Development, defined by psychologist Lev Vygotsky as the gap between what a student can do on their own and what they can do with assistance, is the best place to reach kids,2 but ZPD is different for every student, and that disparity increases as the pressures and preconceptions associated with performance are added to the mix.

One thing that seems to help is to choose material that students can identify with. With both my ensembles and seasonal shows, the temptation to select tried and true material that serves some incrementally appropriate instructional goals is strong. Nevertheless, each year I select at least some new material, in part by asking students for input. Champions of culturally responsive teaching would argue that this kind of collaboration is appropriate in any case, but whether kids relate to a selection because it is of their native culture or from pop culture, they are going to be more enthusiastic about learning and playing music they think is cool.

Once material has been selected, it is important that authentic instruction continues even up until dress rehearsal. To facilitate this I try to have a lesson plan for each rehearsal that contains some achievable short-term goals. The hope is that this will give every student a sense of daily accomplishment and optimism about their ultimate success the day of the show. Meanwhile, the process of breaking down the performance piece into smaller, more manageable chunks and then putting it back together gives me plenty of teachable moments to discuss how the music is constructed.

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keeping students engaged is to allow them to be the author of some part of each number in the show. Whether this is a B section for a piece that they compose, the development of choreography or additional verses, incorporating their compositional and presentational ideas invariably leads to a greater investment on their part. They care more about doing well, because it is their own, and, here again, they are collaborating on a process level.

Finally, it is a good idea that you educate your audience to the extent that you can about what they should be looking for. This isn’t a matter of lowering expectations, as much as redirecting them. For some reason, we are able to observe a show of children’s art or attend a children’s play and enjoy it for what it is, but when it comes to music, many parents, students, and even teachers compare children’s performances not to other children’s work, but to the professionally engineered work of professional musicians. Part of the solution here is to select material your students can fully realize – pentatonic folk tunes, for example – but another part is to improve your audience’s appreciation for what is actually

taking place on stage. When parents comment about the musical proficiency on display, even if those comments are complimentary, I try to direct their attention instead to the same things I am looking for – working effectively within a group, sustained concentration, and joy.

A mentor teacher once told me that if you are not careful, you can wind up having the same conversation every day with the three smartest kids in the room. This is a particular danger in the music classroom, where standout ability is something that is cultivated and featured. But as generalists we are responsible for insuring an optimum musical experience for all students. Maintaining a strong sense of process even while pursuing performance excellence will go a long way towards achieving that goal.

• 1. David J. Elliot. Music Matters; A New Philosophy of Music Education. Oxford University Press; NY. 1995.

2. L.S. Vygotsky. Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, MA. 1978.

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CASMEC’s Last Waltz in Fresno

by Bill Wilkinson CMEA CASMEC Coordinator CMEA Representative on the CBDA Board

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s many music educators were taking time off this summer to unwind and recharge for a new school year, the board members of CBDA and other CASMEC affiliates were hard at work preparing for CASMEC’s last hurrah in Fresno, February 19-22, 2015. CASMEC, and prior to that, CBDA’s annual convention, has called Fresno home since 1998.

The conference has grown tremendously since beginning its run in Fresno. When the California Band Directors Association arrived in Fresno in 1998 the conference featured only two high school honor bands and a fair selection of excellent professional development sessions for our state’s band directors. The Central Valley location, modest pricing and excellent performance venue was perfect for CBDA’s needs at the time.

Fast forward 18 years later to 2015, CBDA now has joined forces with CMEA, California Alliance for Jazz (CAJ), California Orchestra Directors Association (CODA), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and now boasts ten performance ensembles (three high school honor bands, two junior high school honor bands, a high

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school and junior high school orchestra, a high school and junior school honor jazz band and an all-state high school vocal jazz choir). Our state super conference known as the California All-State Music Educators Conference, or CASMEC, now serves more than 800 of California’s best and talented student musicians, providing them with a first class all-state experience. In addition to our outstanding student ensembles, CASMEC features three days of professional development covering the gamut of music disciplines from band to choral to orchestra to jazz. In addition, CMEA offers five strands of sessions ranging from professional development to technology to general music. In all, CASMEC offers attendees 70 sessions, concerts and exhibits each year and we are still growing.

CASMEC and its affiliates are committed to provide both students and educators alike the best possible experience. Providing a first-rate experience takes lots of planning.

This commitment to excellence begins months and even years in advance. For instance, in order to ensure we get the ensemble conductors of choice they are

booked at least two years prior to their engagement. The affiliated CASMEC boards have been individually working in various committees throughout the summer choosing the best clinicians and performance groups from an outstanding pool of candidates which we believe will provide our attendees with the best overall experience with the most pertinent information for today’s state of music education. During the first weekend of September representatives from all affiliates meet for a strategic planning meeting where all details of February’s conference are carefully addressed. From then on its full steam ahead as we push towards CASMEC five months later.

CASMEC 2015 will not disappoint. We are excited to welcome the world-renowned Canadian Brass as our conference’s headliner sponsored by Conn-Selmer. Plan to join us in Fresno February 19–22 as we bid a fond farewell to our friend and home for the past 18 years. With an amazing headliner group, some of the nation’s best all-state ensembles and a full slate of clinics and exhibits it’ll be easy to see that CASMEC is quickly becoming the premier music educators conference west of the Rockies.

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Music Tech is Everywhere

by James Knight CMEA Music Technology Representative

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’m the new technology representative for CMEA and before I get started with my “official duties” I’d like to thank my predecessor Dennis Mauricio for his tireless work as a champion for music technology in the public schools. Dennis has been a giant in the field and I feel honored to continue the work that he has been involved with for CMEA. I first met Dennis when I attended a workshop that he James Knight was conducting for a musical instrument manufacturer where I was part of a panel discussion.As a fellow educator, I have used material from his book to help teach my music technology classes and have enjoyed listening to the CDs that his student’s have created.

Over the years, Dennis was part of a group of educators who enlightened us about the power of music technology and were faced with the daunting task of convincing educators about the need to integrate music tech into the classroom.

When these pioneers in the music tech field would talk with educators, the cost associated with music tech created a challenge.The technology was fairly sophisticated and often had a steep learning curve and we would have to spend hours learning how to work a particular piece of software or hardware that contained confusing manuals and lack of product support.During that period of time I remember reading an article in a music industry magazine that said something to the effect that “we used to play music and now all we do is sit around and read manuals.” (I believe it was Jazz Drummer Peter Erskine who made this comment.) Fortunately that’s not the way it is anymore.

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or the best tech support “ask a student.” The field of music tech has expanded and is no longer primarily about music notation, piano labs and recording. A partial list of areas of music tech include: Sound Reinforcement

Digital mixers,line arrays,speakers, portable PA Systems, dynamic microphones and monitor systems (both wedges and personal monitor systems).

Recording/Video

Computers, recording software, audio interfaces, specialized recording mixers, condenser microphones and monitors for playback, sound treatment and soundproofing. Video cameras, SLR cameras, switchers, lighting, green screens and editing software.

Computers

Desktops, tablets and “bring your own device” portable drives and Cloud based storage.

Instruments

Electric guitars, effects pedals, keyboards/synths, pickups for strings and brass,electric drums and percussion and guitar/keyboard amps.

Software

Cloud based software services,notation software, ear training and music theory software, games for music instruction, amp models and software plug-ins.

And finally the newest additions: Social Media Platforms

Used to promote your music and communicate with your musical community.

Apps

Apps for creating,managing and sharing your music.

Cloud Based

Instructional delivery as well as storage.

stated earlier “music tech is everywhere.”

All of these items are now just tools designed to help us create, share and keep track of our music and organizations. So as you get ready to start a new school year, take a minute to think about your music-tech needs from the above list and have an ongoing wish list at your disposal. I always have a P.O. filled out and ready to go for the unexpected times when an administrator says “I have money to spend but it has to be at the district by this afternoon,” or when your parents say “How can we help the kids.”

I’m here to help answer questions and put together workshops and articles that you are interested in. Please feel free to e-mail me at jamesknight@mac.com and I look forward to assisting the California Music Educators Association in the field of music tech.

• Jamie Knight is an Apple Distinguished Educator and director of the Music, Media and Entertainment Technology program (MMET) at the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts. His MMET program has served as a model school for any district wishing to implement a popular music program.MMET has won a California Golden Bell Award for innovative arts education and has been listed as an Apple Distinguished Program for five consecutive years.His students produce three mainstage productions a year that rival professional, televised rock concerts and they have merged music and media to create a spectacular facility that has a TV studio, recording studio, guitar lab and computer lab. Knight has been teaching popular music at the high school level for eleven years, where he teaches guitar, songwriting/recording and music technology. He is currently the Technology Representative for CMEA.

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Choral Leadership Academy 2015

by Merryl Nelson CMEA CA ACDA Representative

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he Fourth Annual Choral Leadership Academy sponsored by CMEA in partnership with California ACDA and SCVA will move back to CASMEC in Fresno, February 19–22, 2015. The CLA is an extraordinary educational event for high school, community college, and university students who are interested in pursuing the choral profession as a career. This outstanding event will impart musicianship skills, inspire confidence, and build camaraderie among musicians of the next generation.

The students in the CLA will: • sing new literature • work on their musicianship • listen to and learn from veterans in the field • develop friendships that will support them as they begin their careers The CLA will run for two days, Friday, February 20 through Saturday, February 21, within the CASMEC conference schedule. We are privileged to have returning as our headliner Rodney Eichenberger, who will bring his amazing conducting expertise and engaging humor

to CLA students. The CLA faculty will include Chris Peterson (CSU Fullerton), Jeffrey Benson (CSU San José), Angel Vázquez-Ramos (Chapman University), and Merryl Nelson (Cuyamaca College). In addition, CLA students will receive free admittance to attend all sessions within the remaining two days of CASMEC on February 19 and 22. Such a deal!

Due to the nature of this event, we must limit our enrollment to 50 students. While acceptance to the CLA is on a “first come, first served” basis, please be aware that we must have a balance of vocal parts as well as a balance of high school and college students.

Therefore, as registration moves forward towards our limit, students might have to be placed on a waiting list.

So encourage your students to register now online at www.calmusiced.com to be a part of this exciting experience.

Choral Strand – CASMEC 2015 Choral directors, plan now to attend CASMEC in Fresno, February 19–22, 2015. Once again, ACDA in partnership with CMEA will provide interesting, informative sessions for choral directors in a variety of school settings and program situations. So if you are new to the profession, a band director who also has a period of choir, the band, choir, and drama director of your school,∆40 or you are building or maintaining a full-time choral program, we will have what you need at CASMEC, with the added bonus of “rubbing shoulders” with your band, orchestra, and jazz colleagues.

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Meet the CMEA State Council

by Michael D. Stone CMEA President

t is my pleasure to announce the 2014–2016 CMEA State Council to you. This exceptional group of individuals will lead the work of CMEA over the next two years as we strive to reach our vision of providing all California students access to a first-class education in music.

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CMEA President Michael D. Stone Michael D. Stone earned a B.A. in Music Education/Performance and the M.Ed. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Stone serves as the visual and performing arts coordinator for the Bakersfield City School District. As the arts administrator for the district, he oversees arts programs at thirty-two elementary schools, seven middle schools, and two junior high schools. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Stone served for more than fourteen years as instrumental music teacher at Chipman Junior High School, also in the Bakersfield City School District.

Chipman bands and orchestras consistently earned unanimous superior ratings at California Music Educators Association (CMEA) festi-

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vals during his tenure. Chipman ensembles performed at the state conferences of CMEA and California Band Directors Association (CBDA).

Mr. Stone was featured in the January 1999 issue of The Instrumentalist magazine, and has written several articles for the magazine since that time. During the summer of 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship in Music Education at Northwestern University. In March of 2009, Mr. Stone served as an online mentor for the Music Educators National Conference National Council of Supervisors of Music Education.

Bakersfield City School District was recently named a 2013 and 2014 Best Community for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants. The District’s Music In Our Schools Week instrumental music recruitment program was selected as 2013 Golden Bell Award winner by the California School Boards Association.

Mr. Stone is president of CMEA, and a past president of CBDA, CMEA Central Section, and the Kern County Music Educators Association (KCMEA). He has served in an adjunct capacity at California State University, Bakersfield, teaching instrumental music methods to undergraduates. Mr. Stone holds active memberships in many professional organizations, including the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), CBDA, CMEA, KCMEA, and Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA). He was inducted into the American School Band Directors

Association in 2001. Mr. Stone is a euphoniumist and trombonist, and is a founding member of the Bakersfield Winds, a symphonic wind ensemble.

Active as an adjudicator and guest conductor, Mr. Stone has conducted honor bands and orchestras throughout California, as well as in Arkansas, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon.

Recent guest conducting engagements include the 2014 Clark County (Nevada) Middle School Honor Band and the 2013 California All-State Junior High School Concert Band.

He has served for many years as a guest conductor at the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp in California’s Sonoma County.

CMEA President-Elect Scott Hedgecock Scott Hedgecock is the founding director of the Academy of the Arts at Fullerton Union High School, where he currently holds the positions of academy co-coordinator, performing arts department chairperson, and director of choral and vocal studies.

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has appeared at conferences and workshops as a lecturer, facilitator, performance director, and event planner for CMEA, Southern California Vocal Association (SCVA), and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Mr. Hedgecock has been an honor choir director for SCVA and the Capistrano Unified School District.

Scott Hedgecock serves the music educators of California as the president-elect of CMEA. In his third term in office, Mr. Hedgecock has been part of the executive board team that took on the difficult job of restructuring CMEA during the past three years. Mr. Hedgecock served as the leader of the communications team of the Strategic Plan process, and supervising editor of CMEA Magazine. Prior to serving as president-elect, he served two terms as vice president, and as the southern section president, section presidentelect, and choral representative. Mr. Hedgecock is also a past president of the Southern California Vocal Association and served for ten years on the SCVA board. Scott resides in Placentia, California, with his partner of twenty-five years, Tim MacDougall, who is a member of the voice faculty at California State University, Long Beach, along with their nineteen-yearold son Justin and their two dogs Ariadne and Donald.

CMEA Vice President Steven Hendee Steven Hendee is currently the director of bands and orchestras at Castro Valley High School.

Previously, he served as director of bands at San Francisco Unified School District’s School of the Arts (SOTA) and at Hayward High School.

Outside of the classroom Steven is an active member of the California Music Educators Association both at the state and regional (CMEA Bay Section) levels.

He is currently CMEA vice president.

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nator, webmaster, assistant area representative, solo and ensemble host, and large group host. At the state level he has served as the CMEA Music Technology Representative, playing an active role in the selection of presenters at CMEA professional development conferences. Mr. Hendee also has been a guest conductor of honor bands throughout California, including those in San Luis Obispo County, Fremont Unified School District, and San Francisco Unified. Steven has also been on the staff of Hayward La Honda music camp as their senior symphonic band director and has directed middle school and junior high school bands at the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp.

CMEA Secretary Duane Otani Duane Otani earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education, and Master’s Degree in Instrumental Conducting, from California State University, Fresno. Mr. Otani is currently the director of bands at Rancho Bernardo High School.

Under his direction, the Rancho Bernardo band program continues to earn unanimous superior ratings and marching band sweepstakes awards. Mr. Otani is involved with several local and state music education organizations, including Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, California Music Educators Association, California Band Directors association, California Alliance for Jazz, and the National Association for Music Education. He is active as a clinician, conference presenter, and honor band conductor throughout the state of California.

CMEA Immediate Past PresidentRuss Sperling Russ Sperling is the visual and performing arts coordinator for the San

Diego County Office of Education.

He provides consultations and services to the 42 school districts in San Diego County on all facets of arts education, K–12. Mr. Sperling is also the leader of Arts Empower San Diego, San Diego County’s new strategic arts education initiative. He is currently serving as the immediate past president of CMEA and president-elect of NAfME Western Division. Mr. Sperling is the founding and current president of the San Diego Winds, a professional wind ensemble. He is also director of the Grossmont College Concert Band. Mr. Sperling recently served as director of visual and performing arts for the Sweetwater Union High School District. He was responsible for visual art, dance, theatre and music for that 43,000-student district. Mr. Sperling began his career as the instrumental music director at Helix Charter High School in La Mesa. During his fourteen-year tenure at Helix, the band and orchestra tripled in size, won numerous awards and performed in Europe on three tours. For three years, he served as the program manager for K–12 Music for the San Diego Unified School District and while under his leadership, instrumental music enrollment in the district increased by 28 percent.

Mr. Sperling holds a B.A. in Political Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a Masters in Educational Leadership from Point Loma Nazarene University, and a second Masters in Music Performance with an emphasis in Conducting from San Diego State University.

He has been honored as a distinguished alumni by the School of Music and Dance at San Diego State University. Mr. Sperling has received the Prize Principal Award from KYXYFM and Point Loma Nazarene University. He has twice been awarded Band Director of the Year the CMEA Southern Border Section and also their District Administrator of the Year award. Mr. Sperling has received the Golden Apple Award from Helix CMEA Magazine

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Charter High School for excellence in teaching. He is a Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) festival, field and parade adjudicator.

the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Theater and Dance for more than ten years. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, he has been the art director for CMEA Magazine since 2000.

CMEA Administrative Coordinator Trish Adams

CMEA Bay Section President Todd Summers

Trish Adams is the administrative coordinator for the California Music Educators Association, the administrative assistant for the California Band Directors Association, and the choral accompanist, mallet percussion instructor and music department administrative assistant for Hanford West High School. Trish has been working with CMEA since July 1, 2012. This is her sixth year with CBDA, her sixteenth year with Hanford West and her 31st year teaching music. Trish started teaching music as a 16 year old when she was hired as a private piano teacher for Valdosta Music Studio in Valdosta, Georgia. While working for the studio, she attended Valdosta State University as a piano performance major.

In the 1990s, Trish moved to Hanford, California, where she began teaching classroom music and keyboard classes at Pioneer Elementary and Middle Schools. In 1998, she left the Pioneer School system and began working at the new Hanford West High School. When away from the office, Trish likes to spend as much time as possible with her daughters, Tara and Heather, and her granddaughter Emery. This family time is even better when spent hiking and fly-fishing in California’s Sierra Nevada.

Todd L. Summers is a 1990 graduate of Capital University Conservatory of Music in Columbus, Ohio.

He taught instrumental music in Ohio for ten years prior to moving to California. Mr. Summers is currently in his fifteenth year as director of bands at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. This is his first year as assistant conductor of the Gunn Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Capital University Conservatory of Music and Master of Arts in Instrumental Conducting from Ohio University. His primary conducting teachers were Dr. Timothy Swinehart (Capital University Conservatory) and Dr. John Climer (Ohio University). Mr. Summers studied saxophone with Dr. Jim Carroll and Dr. Matthew James and clarinet with Dr. Rebecca Rischin. He also received a Masters in Educational Administration in 2003 from Santa Clara University, CA. All of the ensembles at Gunn High School have consistently received superior ratings at contests and festivals throughout his career. Mr. Summers was named Teacher of the Year in June 2010 at Gunn High School and received the CMEA Bay Section Gilbert T. Freitas Outstanding Instrumental Teacher of the Year in 2011. He is currently President of the California Music Educators Association Bay Section.

Mr. Summers served as Instructional Supervisor for the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Gunn for ten years prior to becoming the assistant director of the orchestra.

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CMEA Capitol Section President Brad North Mr. Brad North received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Music

from California State University, Sacramento in 1981. Mr. North has been teaching music in Northern California for the past thirty-two years and is currently the director of bands and performing arts chair at Woodcreek High School in Roseville, California. He has received numerous awards and honors, including Placer County Teacher of the Year, Northern California Band Directors, Director of the Year, and California Music Educators Association’s, Capitol Section, Music Educator of the Year.

Mr. North has served three terms as president of California Music Educators Association’s, Capitol Section, as well as serving on the board of the Northern California Band Association. Bands under his direction have performed throughout the United States and Canada, including performances at our nation’s capital, and performances for California’s gubernatorial inaugurations.

CMEA Central Section President Leonard Ingrande Leonard Ingrande is a conductor, pianist, composer, and music educator with more than 25 years experience teaching at independent and public schools, community music schools, colleges, and community colleges. He has a Masters of Music in Conducting from The University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Music in Education. Mr. Ingrande has received diplomas from Loma Linda University and attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and extended studies at the Juilliard School.

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Association, Conductor’s Guild, Fresno Madera Counties Music Educators Association, Northern California Band Association, World Band Association, and the Association of California Symphony Orchestras.

Mr. Ingrande is currently working on a composition for symphonic band to be added to his string quartet, transcriptions for concert band, field shows, and concertos. Some of his works have been performed in the Central Valley. He teaches classes in music fundamentals, AP music theory, jazz, concert, and marching bands.

Mr. Ingrande is the resident conductor of the California Opera Association, former music director of the Merced Symphony, the Monteverdi Chamber Orchestra, and the Kings County Symphony. He is music director of the Central California Chamber Orchestra. In recent years, Mr. Ingrande has successfully conducted outstanding concert artists such as Pepe Romero, Anthony Newman, Nathaniel Rosen and David Shifrin. He has premiered works by James Hobbs, David Ward Steinman, Mark Watters, and the late Paul Creston. Under his leadership, the Central High Concert Band has consistently received numerous unanimous superior ratings at CMEA adjudicated festivals. In the past few years, he has developed an awardwinning jazz band which has continually received superior ratings and has become an outstanding ensemble in the Central Valley. Mr. Ingrande tries to address the needs and interests of each individual student, whether it’s learning to read music, improvise jazz, or, interpret a given piece.

CMEA Central Coast Section President - Willow Manspeaker Willow Manspeaker is the director of music at the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. She directs three choirs and teaches AP music theory, songwriting/music production, and, group guitar. She also manages a large-scale private lessons program at Stevenson, and is the vocal director for the annual musical production. Willow holds 30

Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in Music degrees from UC Santa Cruz, and is currently a doctoral student at Boston University where she is studying music education and researching informal learning practices for her dissertation. She has been a member of the CMEA Central Coast Section Board of Directors for fifteen years, and has served as the CMEA Central Coast Section President as well as the CMEA Secretary. Willow also maintains a private vocal studio and often acts as musical director for productions in the local community. She lives on the Stevenson campus with her sevenmonth old daughter, Wyatt, and husband, Jon, who also is an educator.

CMEA Northern Section President Todd Filpula Todd Filpula is currently in his twentieth year of teaching. For the last four years, he has been the director of bands at Chico Senior High School and Chico Junior High School. Previous teaching positions held were band director at Red Bluff High School, Palm Desert High School in Southern California, W.G. Murdoch School, and Meadowbrook Middle School.

His innovative and rigorous approach to teaching has consistently earned his ensembles superior ratings at CMEA festivals in addition to other honors at Heritage Festivals throughout the Western United States.

CMEA North Coast Section President Judi Scharnberg Judi Scharnberg grew up in a home surrounded by music and art. Her father was a professor of art and art education, and her mother taught art in a school for perceptually handicapped children in Rochester, NY. Evenings were spent playing family classical music duets, trios, and quartets, with a bit of jazz thrown in. She played piano, violin, recorder and classical guitar, sang in adult choirs and a travelling Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta Company in High School.

Judi earned her music education degree at SUNY Potsdam with a major in voice. Her most memorable

teachers were Pat Misslin, voice, Sandy Feldstein, percussion methods, and Brock MacElheren, conducting. She then received her Master’s Degree in Humanities Education at Harvard University, and later earned her Orff Certification at Denver University.

She retired after a 41-year career in Massachusetts, Canada, Maryland, New Mexico, Israel, New York, California, and Thailand. She has done numerous Orff workshops, and participates in local music groups here on the North Coast. Judi also enjoys gardening, has designed her own home, travels with her partner Marcus, and is passionate about music advocacy.

CMEA Southeastern Section Designated Contact Armalyn De La O Armalyn De La O is currently the director of the RIMS California Arts Project site of The California Arts Project a California Subject Matter Project for the Visual and Performing Arts located at CSU San Bernardino.

Ms. De La O is also the coordinator for visual and performing arts for the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools Office (SBCSS). Ms. De La O has a B.A. in Music Education and a Master’s in Education Administration. She has taught music for 14 years at the elementary, middle and community college levels, and currently teaches adjunct music education courses and supervises music and visual arts teachers at CSU San Bernardino.

Ms. De La O represents RIMS and LAB CAP and SBCSS on many arts education networks including the Arts Education Network for San Bernardino County, Arts Education Network for Riverside County and for the County Arts Leads for the California Department of Education.

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national writers for the National Core Arts Standards in Music. In the past, she has also served on the following national and state committees: the Committee to develop the Music Standards for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; the Committee to develop the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for Public Schools in Music; and, the Committee to develop the program strands for the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET) Program in Music.

Ms. De La O currently serves as interim president for the California Music Educators Association’s Southeastern Section Board.

CMEA Southern Border Section President - Pauline Crooks Pauline Crooks received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Ohio State University and a Master of Arts in Teaching from National University. Mrs. Crooks taught in Ohio for six years prior to moving to San Diego, CA, and has been the Director of Bands at Bernardo Heights Middle School in the Poway Unified School District since 2003.

She is active in many arts organizations, including the National Association for Music Education, California Band Directors Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, the California Arts Project, and is currently the president of the Southern Border Section of CMEA. Mrs. Crooks is a National Board Certified Teacher, clinician, conference presenter, honor band conductor, and involved in leadership positions at her school.

CMEA Southwestern Section President Lisa Crawford Nearing completion of doctoral studies in music education at University of Southern California, Lisa Crawford has taught elementary choral and general music as well as special programs for young comFall Issue 2014

posers. Her research interests include creativity, composing, and technology in teacher education and K–12 classrooms, leadership and evaluation frameworks in music teaching and learning, and singing as related to culture. She has presented at state, national, and international conferences on a variety of topics related to music education, is currently affiliated with the Canadian research initiative Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing, and has been published in the International Journal of Music Education. She also serves the new president of the California Music Education Association’s Southwestern Section.

CMEA CA ACDA Representative Merryl Nelson Merryl Nelson has directed choirs of all ages for thirty-eight years in public and privates schools as well as churches. She was choral director at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon for nineteen years (1993–B2012), where she built a thriving program of 190 students in five choirs.

Throughout her tenure, the Granite Hills Honor Choir and Chamber Chorale consistently won superior ratings at local, regional, and national festivals and toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Merryl also served as chair of the performing arts department and was an active member of the visual and performing arts Strategic Plan Committee for Grossmont Union High School District. In the fall of 2010, Merryl joined the faculty of Cuyamaca College as choral director.

In addition to conducting the choir, she has also taught music theory, ear training, sight singing, and introduction to music. Merryl holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Organ

Performance from the University of Redlands and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from San Diego State University. She has taken additional course work at the Eastman School of Music, Butler University, University of California, San Diego, Fresno State University, and Grossmont College.

In addition to teaching, Merryl has been an active member of American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), California Music Educators Association (CMEA), and Southern California Vocal Association (SCVA).

She served as Far South Representative for California ACDA from 2000–2004 and as president for CMEA Southern Border Section from 2007–2009. In 2003, Merryl was honored by CMEA Southern Border Section with the Choral Educator of the Year Award. She is currently serving as Far South Representative for California ACDA, choral representative for CMEA, and Coordinator for the CMEA/ACDA/SCVA Choral Leadership Academy.

CMEA CAJ Representative Michael Galisatus Michael Galisatus is the director of bands at the College of San Mateo, and is currently serving as jazz representative for the California Music Educators Association and is on the board for the California Alliance for Jazz. Mr. Galisatus has been the recipient of various teaching honors including the California State PTA Honorary Service Award, CMEA Otter Distributors Jazz Educator Award for the state of California, the Peninsula Arts Council Arts Educator of the Year for 2007 (San Mateo County) and, the CMEA Bay Section Gil Freitas Memorial Award for music education. He is among the preferred adjudicators/clinicians for the California Music Educators Association, having adjudicated band, jazz, and solo-ensemble festivals since 1985. In addition to these festivals, Michael is an active adjudicator/clinician for Music in the Parks Festivals, Forum Music Festivals, the Reno Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Next Generation Festival, the Washington State 31

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University Jazz Festival, the Folsom Jazz Festival, the Delta College Jazz Festival, the Fresno City College Jazz Festival, and many others.

Michael is also active as a guest conductor for various honor groups in California and is a regular conductor for the Cazadero Music Camp and the Monterey Jazz Festival Summer Camp. Prior to his appointment to the College of San Mateo faculty, Mr. Galisatus taught at the high school level for twenty-five years. The bands, orchestras, and jazz ensembles under his direction were consistent recipients of superior ratings, and toured internationally in Canada, Japan, Mexico, and various parts of the United States. As a freelance trumpeter in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael has recorded with Pete Escovedo and Queen Ida, and has performed with a variety of artists, including Frankie Valli, Michael Feinstein, Sheila E., Kenny Loggins, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Louis Bellson, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Heat Wave, The O’Jays, and a host of others.

CMEA CBDA Representative and CBDA President Norm Dea Norman Dea has just completed his 31st year of teaching and his sixth year as the director of instrumental music at Acalanes High School in Lafayette. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Dea served in a similar capacity at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek for twenty-five years. Under his leadership, the Las Lomas High School Instrumental Music Department was widely recognized as one of the premier programs in California. Las Lomas and Acalanes performing groups hold a reputation for musical excellence of the highest caliber and have consistently received unanimous superior ratings and gold awards at music festivals throughout California and abroad. His bands have also appeared as showcase ensembles at 32

the CMEA State Conference and the California Band Directors Association (CBDA) All-State Convention. Well versed in the wind band and orchestral repertoire, Mr. Dea is highly regarded as an adjudicator, clinician, and consultant for various music festivals in California. He has been a guest conductor of district, county and regional honor bands including CMEA Bay Section, CMEA Northern Section (twice), Fresno-Madera Counties (FMCMEA), Marin County, San Luis Obispo County, Sonoma County, Stanislaus County, San Francisco Unified School District, and the Mt. Diablo Unified School District.

In 2011 he was the conductor of the CBDA California All-State Junior High Honor Band, and in 2013 he was the conductor of the NCBA AllNorthern California Junior High Honor Band. He has guest conducted summer camp bands at Cazadero Music Camp, Donner Mine Music Camp, Hayward-La Honda Music Camp, and most recently at the Alpine School District Summer Advanced Band Camp in American Fork, Utah. He has also conducted the Tulare-Kings County Music Educator Association (TKMEA) Middle School Honor Band in January 2014, and the Nevada AllState Middle School Honor Band in April 2014.

Mr. Dea has been honored many times for his contributions to the music education community locally, statewide and nationally. Awards include the 2011 CBDA Distinguished Service Award, the 2010 SBO Magazine’s 13th Annual 50 Directors Who Make A Difference Award, the 2008 Bandworld Legion of Honor Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the 2005 CMEA Bay Section Outstanding Music Educator of the Year Award, the 2004 CMEA State Don Schmeer-Byron Hoyt Outstanding Band Educator of the Year Award, the 2003 Acalanes Union High School District Teacher of the Year, the 2001 Outstanding Teacher Award from Prudential California Realty’s Education Foundation, the 1985 Distinguished Music Educators Award from the Diablo Symphony Association, the 1988 Gilbert T. Freitas Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Education. He is listed in

Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Education.

A tireless advocate of music education in our schools, Mr. Dea is the current California Band Directors Association (CBDA) president. He has served as president and vice president of CMEA, and is a past president of CMEA Bay Section. Mr. Dea has also served as the Treasurer for the California Band Directors Association. He is the co-founder of the Contra Costa County High School Honor Band, and serves on the advisory board for Cazadero Music Camp.

Mr. Dea holds professional memberships with CMEA/National Association for Music Education (NAfME), California Band Directors Association (CBDA), California Orchestra Directors Association (CODA), Southern California Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA), Texas Bandmasters Association (TBA), and is a professional associate member of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA).

Mr. Dea is a 1981 graduate of San Francisco State University. Among the teachers who influenced his career include Robert Greenwood of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley; George Carter of Marina Junior High School in San Francisco; Joe Anguilo of Mill Valley Middle School; Dr. Edwin Kruth, Dr. Byron McGilvray, Dr. Roger Nixon and Dr. Carolynn Lindeman of San Francisco State University; A. David Krehbiel and Floyd Cooley of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; and, Wilbur Sudmeier of the Marin Symphony Orchestra.

CMEA CODA Representative and CODA President Kate Francis Native to the San Francisco Bay Area, Kate Francis is in her 13th year as an orchestra teacher. Kate currently teaches at Lincoln High School and Hoover Middle School in the San José Unified School District. Ms. Francis received her undergraduate degree in CMEA Magazine

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viola performance and string education from the University of Michigan and her Master’s degree in viola performance from San Francisco State University. Kate is currently the president of the California Orchestra Director’s Association. When Kate is not playing her viola or teaching, she can be found spending time with her family or shopping.

CMEA CASMEC Logistics Coordinator/CMEA Representative on the CBDA Board Bill Wilkinson Bill Wilkinson has been teaching music for the past 16 years and has taught most of his career in the Hanford Elementary School District as a junior high and elementary band director. He is currently band director at Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School, a position held for the last four years.

During his tenure, the Woodrow Wilson Band has steadily grown in size and his bands have consistently earned superior ratings at festival.

Bill has also taught at John F. Kennedy Jr. High School in Hanford, Liberty Middle School in Lemoore and Strathmore Elementary School. In 2006, he was named the Liberty Middle School Teacher of the Year. Bill earned his B.A. in Music Education from Fresno State.

Mr. Wilkinson has been an active board member of organizations at both the state and local level. He served two terms as vice president of California Band Directors Association (CBDA) from 2005–2009, and is the current California All-State Music Education Conference (CASMEC) Logistics Coordinator for CMEA. Bill is also currently serving as 2nd vice president on the CMEA Central Section Board where he is responsible for its bi-annual publication Grace Notes. He is a past president of the Tulare-Kings Counties Music Educators Association (TKMEA).

CMEA General Music Representative - Richard Lawton Richard Lawton has been teaching general music for eight years, splitting Fall Issue 2014

time between two Los Angeles Unified School District elementary schools. Prior to teaching Richard worked for twenty years as a writer and producer in Hollywood. In 2013 he was asked to join the full-time staff at the prestigious Wonderland Avenue School, where he is part of an extraordinary parent-funded enhancement program of music, visual art, P.E. and gardening. He has an MM from Cal State University at Los Angeles, where he also obtained a multiple subject teaching credential and completed his Orff certification levels training.

Richard is also on the board of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Orff Schulwerk Association.

More information can be obtained from Richard’s online teaching portfolio at www.richardlawtonmusic.com CMEA Technology Representative James Knight James Knight is a professional musician turned educator who is also known as the Loud Music Librarian.

Jamie has an MLIS degree from San José State University and in the Spring of 2001, Knight was hired as a librarian at Fountain Valley and Ocean View High Schools. During his tenure as a School Library media specialist, Knight established a student club called the Loud Music Club that performed a series of battle of the bands and would use the proceeds to buy books and musical gear for the students. The Loud Music librarian moniker was given to Jamie due to his habit of rehearsing rock bands in his library during after school hours. Eventually Knight was hired by the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts to develop an “alternative” music program to reach “at risk” and other creative students who weren’t being served by the traditional music program. He has taken his students to play at the world-famous Cavern Club in Liverpool England and his students

stage two mainstage productions a year that rival professional, televised rock concerts. Apple first became aware of his music program (MMET) when he brought his students to the Apple Store in Fashion Island, CA and also the CUE Conference in Palm Springs where his students had educators dancing in the aisles. Mr. Knight was awarded the Orange County Music and Arts Administrators Outstanding Arts Educator Award for 2012 by the Orange County Music and Arts Administrators (OCMAA). His MMET program was also recognized by Apple, Inc., as an Apple Distinguished Program for the third year in a row. Mr. Knight was also selected by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) to speak at their national conference in Baltimore during the summer of 2012.

The 2010–2011 school year was also a very good year for Jamie Knight and his MMET program. He was awarded the Huntington Beach Union High School Teacher of the Year, Orange County Department of Education Teacher of the Year semifinalist and Orange County CUE’s Teacher of the year. Apple, Inc., listed his program as an Apple Exemplary Program and MMET recently won the prestigious California Golden Bell Award for Music, Media and Entertainment Technology Program located at the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts at Huntington Beach High School. The Golden Bell Award was given to Knight’s MMET program for creating a professional learning community between USC’s Popular Music program, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and Coastline ROP. The award also recognized Knight’s pioneering efforts to combine popular music and media into the curriculum.

This is accomplished by a team teaching approach where the video instructor and music teacher share resources and students to offer preprofessional training classes in the music and media industry. He is able to offer professional certification in both Logic and Final Cut and has a “state of the art” facility that features a guitar lab with 24 iPod Touch devices, a recording studio, computer lab and television studio with room for a TV audience. All of these 33

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awards have been great for Mr. Knight to help continue his program but Mr. Knight would say the most important thing he accomplishes is giving his students the gifts of confidence, creativity and the ability to accomplish amazing things. Recently Mr. Knight was a Grammy Teacher of the Year quarter finalist.

and as advocacy/legislative representative. As an active advocate for music education, Steve has worked with the California Department of Education to develop a model exemplifying the use of Title I monies to raise student academic achievement through music education.

CMEA Advocacy Representative Steve Venz

CMEA State Band and Orchestra Festival Chairperson Jim Mazzaferro

Steve Venz is the newly-named visual and performing arts coordinator with the Orange County Office of Education. Previously, he worked as the principal of Quincy Jones Elementary (QJES), a new Los Angeles Unified School District school located in the neighborhood of the Historic Central Avenue Jazz Corridor in South Los Angeles and incorporates jazz and music education to strengthen student learning.

Since its opening in September, 2010, the school serves 370 students; 75 percent are designated EL’s and 100 percent are designated Title I, and it has surpassed academic achievement goals as demonstrated by a growth of 100 API points in two years.

Previously as LAUSD’s music administrator for seven years, Steve focused on increasing student access to quality, sequential music instruction by expanding and deepening partnerships with universities, corporations and non-profit agencies to provide more resources and quality music educators to schools. As a result, enrollment in LAUSD middle and high school music classes increased from 31,636 to 50,966 students and staffing of music educators from 333 to 438 full-time positions.

In addition, he taught music for several years at 32nd Street/USC Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School and was appointed music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA Expo Youth Orchestra. As a member of CMEA, Steve has served as vice president

James Mazzaferro started his music education career thirty-four years ago in San Francisco at Archbishop Riordan High School, where he worked for ten years before moving to Florin High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District for eight years. He was the concert band director at Sacramento City College for four years, and is currently the orchestra director at Consumnes River College.

Mazzaferro divides his time between his duties as the director of instrumental music at Sheldon High School, where he teaches concert band, symphonic band, jazz band, and string orchestra, as well as marching band, AP music theory, and guitar. In addition, he is the artistic director/camp director of Cazadero Performing Arts Camp, a position he has held since 2001.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Mazzaferro attended Lowell High School, playing in the school’s concert band and orchestra. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from San Francisco State University, playing in the symphonic band under the direction of Dr. Edwin C. Kruth, and served as principal bassist in the university symphony under the direction of Lazlo Varga.

Mazzaferro received his Masters degree in Instrumental Conducting from California State University, Sacramento, studying conducting under Dr. Robert Halseth. Mazzaferro has also studied conducting with Frederick Fennell, Jack Stamp, Allan McMurray, and Eugene Corporon.

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him to receive numerous awards and recognitions, including: two-time Teacher of the Year at Archbishop Riordan High School, multiple recipient of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Elk Grove Unified School District Teacher of the Year, Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Educator, Elly Award for High School Musical Direction of Bye Bye Birdie, CMEA Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Outstanding Band Director Award, and the prestigious Bandworld John Philip Sousa Foundation Legion of Honor Award. Mazzaferro has also been honored to conduct honor bands and orchestras in both California and Nevada.

CMEA State Solo and Ensemble Festival Chairman Cheryl Yee Glass Cheryl Yee Glass (a.k.a. Chief) has been teaching at San Ramon Valley High School in Danville since March of 1982. She has spent the last 32 years building the program from three classes to its existing seven music classes: marching program, jazz band and jazz ensemble, chamber orchestra, concert band, symphonic band, and AP music theory. Aside from her site teaching responsibilities, she served as the district coordinator of music from 1997–2007. Cheryl has been responsible for preparing district participation reports, organizing the district’s yearly music performance calendar, aligning the curriculum to meet state and national music standards, running music staff meetings, setting district music goals, and assisting in the hiring of new music teaching staff. All of this work is done after regular school hours. The district has also doubled its enrollment in the last nine years. She has been a support provider for the Beginning Teacher Special Assessment (BTSA) program for nine years. Her professional service includes serving on the board of directors for the Bay Section of the California Music Educators Association from 1990–1998, 1999, CMEA Magazine

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2001–2004, and again in 2013–2014. During this time, she served as secretary, the first female president for the organization, orchestra representative, newsletter editor, and assistant orchestra representative.

Cheryl has served as a member of the Minority Task Force for the National Music Educator’s Conference. This committee was formed to determine how students and teachers of multicultural backgrounds could be more involved in music education. Cheryl was the only representative from California. She was elected to serve on the CMEA Board of Directors in 2004, and finished her term as president in 2010.

She now serves as the CMEA State Solo and Ensemble Festival Coordinator. In her spare time, Cheryl can be seen conducting from the orchestra pit of the Lesher Center of the Arts in Walnut Creek. She serves as the music director for the Diablo Theatre Company (formerly known as the Diablo Light Opera Company).

You may have seen her leading the productions of Into the Woods, West Side Story, Miss Saigon, Peter Pan, Hello Dolly!, Annie, and Singing In The Rain. She also serves on the artistic committee and board of directors for the company. She has also been a guest conductor at the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp since 2004 and has been recently elected to serve on their board of directors.

Cheryl does prefer to spend time with her many students at community performances, music festivals and competitions – some 60 or more events throughout each school year.

The instrumental music program at San Ramon has received over 50 unanimous superior or command performance awards. The main goal, of course, is not to win the award, but to make a commitment to lifelong learning of music.

CMEA Membership Chairperson Regina Pryor Regina Pryor has been teaching junior high music for twenty-eight years in the Panama-Buena Vista School District. She teaches orchestra and choir at both Tevis (since 1988) and Thompson (since 1986) Junior Highs. Ms. Pryor graduated from California State University, Fall Issue 2014

Fresno with a degree in music education and received her teaching credential at California State University, Bakersfield. She received the Jim Burke Ford Education Foundation Teacher of the Year in 1999 and has been named teacher of the year at both Tevis and Thompson Junior High Schools.

Ms. Pryor has held many offices in the Kern County Music Educators Association, including president, secretary, treasurer, scholarship chairperson, and is currently the hospitality chairperson. She is the past president of CMEA Central Section. Currently she is CMEA Membership Chairperson.

Ms. Pryor is also a board member of the following organizations: Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra (past president), Bakersfield Sister City Project Corporation (2nd vice president), and co-founder of the Sergeant Tom Pryor Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fund (to assist first responders). She is one of the teachers for the PanamaBuena Vista School District Strolling Strings Team. In 1998, Ms. Pryor took the Panama-Buena Vista School District Junior High Choir to perform at our Sister City in Wakayama, Japan. In 2009, she took the Bakersfield Youth Symphony to perform in its sister city, Bucheon, South Korea. Ms. Pryor has been a camp director for the Armenian Western Diocese for many years. She also sings in the St. Gregory Armenian Church Choir in Fowler, the Trinity Anglican Church Choir in Bakersfield, and is part of their hand bell choir.

Ms. Pryor belongs to the following professional organizations: American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), California Orchestra Directors Association (CODA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG).

CMEA Mentorship Program Chairperson Mark Nicholson Mark Nicholson is the music supervisor for the San Diego Unified

School District. Under Mr. Nicholson’s leadership, instrumental and choral music programs are coordinated in more than 160 public schools providing standards-based music curriculum to students K–12.

During his tenure, Mr. Nicholson has revived band and orchestra programs at the middle and high school levels in collaboration with VH1 Save the Music Foundation. He has expanded music curriculum to 120 elementary schools districtwide, creating access to quality music instruction for more than ten thousand fourth and fifth grade students.

He additionally piloted the first “music bee” in San Diego City Schools in partnership with the former San Diego Orchestra Nova underwritten by the Frances Hunter Music Memory program. Mr. Nicholson is currently the district coordinator for the San Diego State University’s Music Education Fellowship Program, offering authentic classroom experiences to university students pursuing degrees in music education.

Mr. Nicholson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and Music Performance from Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, and holds a Master’s of Science degree in Educational Administration from National University, San Diego California. Recognized for his leadership in music education by the California Music Educators Association Southern Border Section, Mr. Nicholson received the District Administrator of the Year Award in 2010. In that same year and again in 2013 and 2014, he shared with his department the honor of Best Communities for Music Education in America sponsored by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM). Currently, Mr. Nicholson serves on the CMEA State Council as Mentorship Program Chairperson, as president of Southern California Jazz Society, as past president for the California Music Educators Association Southern Border Section, and as executive officer for Arts Empower, a division of the San Diego County Office of Education.

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CMEA Music Supervisors Representative Fillmore Rydeen Fillmore (Phil) Rydeen has been a music educator since 1992 teaching music to students grades K–12 in the Oakland Unified School District.

Holding the position of coordinator of visual and performing arts for the past 10 years, he is responsible for rebuilding visual and performing arts and moving the district towards the goal of a quality arts education for every child. With a focus on quality instruction in the arts, Mr. Rydeen has launched district wide initiatives assisting schools to design and implement innovative and integrated arts programs in music, visual art, dance, and theatre. He plays trumpet and performs with Big O – the Oakland Music Teachers Big Band. Mr. Rydeen holds a master’s degree in educational leadership as well as credentials in music, science, and administrative services.

CMEA Collegiate Representative Dr. John Eros John Eros is interim department chair and assistant professor of music at California State University, East Bay, where he teaches courses in music education and coordinates the music education program. He received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education in 1996 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he studied trumpet with Vincent Cichowicz. His other degrees include a Master of Arts in the Pedagogy of Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and a Ph.D. in Music Education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Eros has also completed certification levels in Orff, Kodály, and Music Learning Theory (Gordon).

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a faculty member at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan and Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also taught preschool through high school general and instrumental music in the Chicagoland area, including five years in the Chicago Public Schools. While in Chicago, Eros won numerous grants from organizations such as the Chicago Foundation for Education, the Oppenheimer Foundation, and the Milagro Foundation.

Dr. Eros has presented at state, regional, national, and international conferences, including the Symposium on Music Teacher Education, New Directions in Music Education, the Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium, and the Colloquium for Teachers of Instrumental Music Methods. He has published research in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Contributions to Music Education, Music Education Research International, Research Studies in Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education.

Dr. Eros is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the NAfME, the American Educational Research Association, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA), the Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Kappa Kappa Psi. He serves as the collegiate representative to the CMEA State Council of Representatives.

CMEA Tri-M Representative Elizabeth Robertson Elizabeth Robertson is fine arts department chair at Petaluma High School. She has served as a choral director and elementary music specialist with the Petaluma City Schools district since 2006. Mrs. Robertson holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from San Francisco State

University, a Single Subject Credential in Music from Notre Dame de Namur University, and a Master of Music in Music Education from Boston University. She has completed graduate coursework in music education and arts administration at Indiana University, Bloomington.

As of May 2013, she holds a Certificate of Eligibility for an Administrative Credential from Sonoma State University. Her particular professional interests include integrating the arts with the Common Core State Standards, visual and performing arts leadership, and vocal technique for developing voices. Mrs. Robertson is proud to live in Petaluma with her husband, Jacob, and their son, Andrew. In her free time, she is an avid reader, foodie, and a developing photographer.

CMEA Higher Education Representative Dr. Lawrence Stoffel Lawrence Stoffel is Director of Bands at California State University, Northridge (Los Angeles). Known for his enthusiasm at rehearsals, concerts, and clinics alike, Dr. Stoffel was named California’s Music Professor of the Year in 2010 by CMEA. Recent performances include the 2013 TMEA All-State 5A Concert Band, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Sounds About Town” concert series, ClarinetFest 2011, the Los Angeles Bach Festival, conductor of the 2011 California All-State Honor Band, and with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (New York). With a breadth of scholarly and artistic interests, Dr. Stoffel is published and lectures on CMEA Magazine

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topics pertinent to the profession from musical interpretation to band transcriptions, from the use of religious music in the public schools to band in the school curriculum, from copyright law to band discography.

CMEA Research/Special Learners Representative Ruth Brittin, CMEA Research and Special Learners Representative, earned her Ph.D. from Florida State University and her earlier degrees at Texas Tech University. She is an active researcher and serves as editor for Update: Applications of Research in Music Education and the International Journal of Music Education. Dr. Brittin works with undergraduate and graduate students as coordinator of Music Education at University of the Pacific in Stockton.

She presents at international and national conferences, such as NAfME and ISME, state and university symposia, continues to perform and adjudicate in instrumental music settings, and has served on the editorial boards of a number of music and music education journals.

Previously, Dr. Brittin was chair of music education at Syracuse University, and has enjoyed living and teaching in California since 1997.

CMEA World Music Representative Dr. Lily Chen-Hafteck Lily Chen-Hafteck is currently a professor of music education at UCLA. She holds a doctorate in music education from the University of Reading, U.K. She has held teaching and research positions at Kean University, NJ, USA, University of Pretoria, South Africa, University of Surrey Roehampton, U.K. and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the topics of early childhood music and multicultural music education, most recently in the Oxford Handbook of Music Education and Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Fall Issue 2014

Cultures. She has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Education, AsiaPacific Journal for Arts Education, Music Education Research International and Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF) Journal of Music.

She has also held positions in the International Society for Music Education as a member of its board of directors, chair of its Young Professionals Focus Group and Early Childhood Commission; and National Association for Music Education (NAfME) as its Early Childhood Special Research Interest Group Eastern Division Representative. She is the founder and director of the Educating the Creative Mind project, funded by National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a co-investigator of Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.

CMEA Retired Members Representative Jon Christian Jon Christian was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from C. K. McClatchy High School in 1959. In 1966 he received his B. A. and teaching credential from San José State University. Following three years in the U. S. Army, playing trombone in both the United States and in Germany, Mr. Christian was hired by the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District as a music instructor in July, 1969. He was the band director at the high school continuously for his entire career. Jon also taught at the elementary and junior high level.

June 16, 2000, after thirty-one years of service to the district, he retired from teaching.

Mr. Christian’s musical inspiration came as a result of attending a variety/talent show at California Junior High when he was in seventh grade when three junior high boys performed “Lassus Trombone” on trombones, of course. With the encour-

agement of Bud Harpham, his junior high band teacher, he studied trombone privately with Stan Smith, bass trombonist with the Sacramento Philharmonic.

In his five years at San José State University, Mr. Christian was a member of the Spartan Marching Band, three as section leader. He also sang in the a capella choir and played in the symphonic band. During his senior year, he was a featured soloist with the symphonic band, performing Wilson Coker’s “Concerto for Trombone with F Attachment.”

During his teaching career, Jon was active in professional music education organizations and is a past president of Central Coast Section of CMEA. In his retirement, he has served as a special representative on the CMEA Central Coast Section Board. His duties have included managing the membership database, editing the Sonata Newsletter, and creating printed programs, forms, and certificates as well.

Mr. Christian plays trombone in the Cabrillo College Symphonic Band and sackbut with the Antiquarian Funks. He is a charter member of the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival Board of Directors which is celebrating its 28th year in 2014. In addition, he adjudicates, teaches privately, and is available for consulting. Mr. Christian is conductor of the San Lorenzo Valley Community Band, a support group for instrumental music in the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. During the summer, he is honored to be a guest performer with the Ashland City Band in Ashland, Oregon.

Jon and his wife, Carolyn, have been married for 46 years and have two children, Brent and Amy. In addition they have two granddaughters.

Jon’s other interests include digital photography, watching track and field, mystery novels, the San Francisco 49ers, the S.F. Giants, and computer projects.

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CMEA Receives National Awards

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his past June, Russ Sperling, Trish Adams, and I represented California at the NAf ME National Assembly in Virginia. We were joined by two California Collegiate Members, Allison McKay and Melissa Sison, both students from California State University, Northridge, who participated in the first-ever NAf ME Collegiate Advocacy Summit. All of us trekked to Capitol Hill last Friday, visiting the offices of Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, as well as those of several members of Congress. I am proud to let you know that your work supporting California music education is not going unnoticed by NAf ME. CMEA was presented two awards, acknowledging its leadership in the areas of advocacy and membership. CMEA was awarded the 2014 “Excellence in Advocacy Award” by NAf ME President Glenn E. Nierman. This award The award presentation for the 2014 NAfME Excellence in Advocacy Award. Left to right: recognizes outstanding leadership in the area of music Glenn E. Nierman, NAfME Present; Russ education advocacy at the state level. CMEA’s work Sperling, CMEA Immediate Past President and NAfME Western Division President-Elect; Michael launching the Stand Up 4 Music (SU4M) Coalition, D. Stone, CMEA President; Shannon Kelley, as well as its decision to hire a music education lobbyNAfME Lobbyist. Photo by Trish Adams. ist, were cited as examples of California’s determination to make music education a part of all students’ learning. I would like to thank all of you for your commitment to advocacy. The work at hand cannot be completed without everyone’s steadfast effort. It is clear that the CMEA-led Stand Up 4 Music (SU4M) Coalition is providing us with a voice in Sacramento as evidenced by the large gathering at this year’s SU4M California Music Education Advocacy Day in May, 2014.

On Saturday, also at the National Assembly, CMEA leaders were presented with the “2014 Membership Campaign Award.” California produced the largest percentage of growth in membership in the nation over the past year, over 10 percent.

I would like to thank Regina Pryor, CMEA’s Membership Chairperson, and the entire State Membership Committee and volunteers, for their The 2014 NAfME Membership work putting California first in the nation in Campaign Award. California proNAf ME membership growth. CMEA is already duced the largest percentage growth in membership in the nation over planning this year’s Membership Campaign where the past year. Photo by Michael D. Stone we will strive to add another 10 percent to our ranks.

Membership matters in our work in Sacramento, as we must build a large contingency to influence the policy makers at the State Capitol. I would like to acknowledge CMEA Past President Norm Dea and CMEA Immediate Past President Russ Sperling for their work leading CMEA through some difficult times in recent years. Their past leadership decisions have made it possible for CMEA to venture forward today with the many projects and initiatives planned for the next two years.

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Numerous California Music Students Selected for the 2014 NAfME All-National Honor Ensembles

by Michael D. Stone CMEA President

t is my pleasure to announce the names of the 30 California students who auditioned for and were selected as members of the 2014 NAfME AllNational Honor Ensembles (i.e., Honor Band, Mixed Choir, and Symphony Orchestra).

California almost tripled the number of students (12 students represented California in 2013) earning positions in these prestigious national ensembles this year.

Students will perform October 29, 2014 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee as part of the NAfME National In-Service Conference.

More information, including the names of the nationally-renowned conductors of these ensembles, may be found at: http://musiced.nafme.org/all-nationalhonorensembles/.

Congratulations to the students and their directors who prepared each for the rigorous audition process. CMEA’s Strategic Plan emphasizes collaborative partnerships within the music education community. I would like to take a moment to thank the leaders of California ACDA, CBDA, and CODA for their work encouraging California's finest young music students to successfully audition for these high-profile national ensembles. Special thanks to Lori Marie Rios, California ACDA President; Norm Dea, CBDA President; and, Kate Francis CODA President. You are each superb leaders for your organizations. I know that these students will have an experience of a lifetime.

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Collegiate Advocacy Summit at NAfME

by Allison McKay, California Representative at the NAfME Collegiate Advocacy Summit

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s collegiate members, the constant e-mails from 2014 NAf ME Hill Day were intimidating. The idea of paying for a ticket to Washington D.C. and talking with senators and representatives about why music education is so important was terrifying, especially with the student loans adding up. It is so easy to disconnect from the importance of advocacy as collegiate members because we do not even have a job to defend yet.

When we arrived in Washington, D.C. for Hill Day, we immediately realized that we were the only two collegiate representatives from our state. Furthermore, we were two of four from the entire West Coast.

Our worries that our $400 round-trip plane tickets were a loss rather than an investment were soon nullified. The resources we received, and the experience of seeing advocacy in action at the legislative level, far surpassed any cost per unit of an advocacy class taught in California. In

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addition to the amazing educational experience that we received, we came back to our state with connections to the finest leaders of other state collegiate music educator’s associations.

Collegiate Advocacy Summit participants at NAfME headquarters in Reston, Virginia, this past summer.

California representatives are Allison McKay and Melissa Sison.

We learned from other state collegiate members exactly what California can be capable of, and how organized we can be as collegiate members. California is a unique state in that we represent the issues from congested urban areas to rural small towns.

We have a good mix of all political posi-

tions. In order to properly represent California, we need a higher number of representatives from different universities.

Our goal as a national association is to have a collegiate board. In order to achieve this, we must first become organized on the state level. CMEA received the Excellence in Advocacy Award and it is important to hold our collegiate board to the same standard, if not to raise the standard.

Music education is unique in that we are the only content area that has to defend why we are necessary to a child’s development. Acquiring the advocacy training now gives us the arsenal we need to make that strong stand for music in our schools.

Through efficient advocacy, we can make it so that future generations of music educators won’t have to fight for every child’s right to sequential, standards-based music education in their public schools.

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class with a qualified teacher is linked to skills employers need and that STEM classes do not address. A few of these skills include increased attention spans, ability to multitask, adaptability under stress, stronger empathy, active listening, and a more positive outlook on teamwork and self-worth.

Listening to music is the only activity that lights up the whole brain at once and those who engage in making music have visibly more connected brains than before learning to play or sing. New studies (controlling for performance before taking music classes) show links to higher GPAs, graduation rates, and attendance rates (especially on the days that music classes are held). Music instruction also seems to reduce discipline referrals for involved students, producing more positive views of school and closing achievement gaps between less advantaged students and their peers. These positive results may be rooted in music classes’ unique blend of shared leadership, where different roles are all necessary and students must work in harmony to produce effective ensemble performances. Such an environment results in the student experiencing a sense of identity as a “musician.” It also provides students a safe-haven in a motivating peer group.

The array of positive engagement that standards-based, sequential music education provides is unmatched by any other subject and must serve as a foundation for improvement and employability of our workforce. CMEA calls for music classes taught by fulltime, qualified music teachers to be scheduled alongside other STEAM curricula. Music education is most effective when presented on its own by those with educational and musical training.

These teachers must be evaluated on teaching music to encourage the full range of possible growth in students and not on other subjects’ test scores. By allowing children to break the silence of school days, our young people find answers that we have not thought to ask and will continue to grow California's economy into the future.

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s Californians, we task our children to be career-ready innovators capable of creating a future that will sustain the largest and most innovative economy in the Nation. Our educational system also values educating our young people so that they become lifelong learners and citizens who actively participate in our democracy. Training in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM subjects) are key to producing the next generation of problem solvers in California.

However, while these technical skills are important, they do not address other traits that employers are seeking. The ability to work well in teams, learn from criticism, communicate, and adapt quickly under pressure (often while multitasking) are all skills that are essential for employment. Our students, regardless of STEM knowledge, will struggle to reach these expectations in a setting where passive listening and standardized tests rule class time.

The arts address these concerns. As suggested by the STEAM movement, the addition of the arts is vital to enhancing children’s likelihood of success both during school and adulthood. Currently, STEAM focuses on integrating art projects into STEM classrooms, giving students chances to experience STEM concepts in new ways. STEM and STEAM models can be effective approaches to connecting learning across the curriculum when paired with sequential, standards-based arts education as a foundation.

However, as a stand-alone approach to providing arts education, STEAM fails to provide foundational learning necessary in the arts disciplines so that effective arts learning can take place. California students must first be provided access to discrete music and arts classes taught by qualified teachers so that learning in the arts builds over time. The STEAM Model is an effective tool in education only when paired with sequential, standards-based arts education provided by qualified teachers.

Taking music classes, specifically, has been linked to higher math, science, and reading scores. But, this is a narrow understanding of what makes music essential in the school curriculum.

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Higher Education Happenings A Sampling of the Many Music Education Activities Taking Place on our State’s College and University Campuses

by Dr. Lawrence F. Stoffel CMEA Higher Education Representative

California State University, Chico The CSU, Chico collegiate chapter of NAf ME received a Chapter of Excellence Award for service. The chapter is regularly involved with service projects to schools in California’s North State Region. Our music education students volunteer to host and run several music festivals each year. They also voluntarily participate in many opportunities to share their talents with students in local schools. Recently, they have helped with recruiting efforts by performing at Summer Orientation for incoming Chico State students and accompanying our professors to local high schools to perform and provide sectionals.

Since the Chico State service area is very large, getting to some of the schools involves travel, which entails commitment and sacrifice from our students. To date, the students have gone to eighteen high schools. Plans are underway for the future to expand these run-outs to include vocal, jazz, and musical theatre students.

Our chapter was one of twelve collegiate chapters in the United States to receive a Chapter of Excellence Award. We would also like to report that in the last ten years, 100 percent of our music education students who have finished the credential program have found teaching positions in California. We would like to congratulate all of our students on their great success.

The “Calahan Program” – a unique instrumental outreach program partnering CSUN with Calahan Elementary School in Northridge - is beginning its sixteenth year this fall. Every Friday morning the sounds of instruments erupt from every available space, indoors and out, when CSUN music majors come to Calahan to teach violin, trumpet, trombone, clarinet and flute to eighty-plus fourthand fifth-grade students.

This teaching opportunity, working with elementary students, is open to all CSUN music majors and not limited to music education students. Between 15 and 20 CSUN students participate each year consistently showing up every Friday to meet with their young students. The first-year students are taught in like instrument classes and second-year students in the wind area meet as a band. This gives the CSUN students teaching experience with both large and small groups. This program is only possible because of the high level of cooperation and dedication from the principal, school coordinator, teachers and parents. School events and field trips are scheduled around the program. Teachers encourage their students to participate and willingly dismiss them from class to come to “orchestra.” Carol Richardson, the music program coordinator for all of the 16 years and much loved by all CSUN students, is key to everything that happens with the program. But the real highlight of every Friday morning is the sumptuous mini-brunch that Carol prepares and serves to the ever hungry CSUN students. If you would like more information about this program, please contact Mary Schliff, music education coordinator, at mary.a.schliff@csun.edu.

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Chapman University

Cerritos College I’d like to take a moment to introduce you to MACCC, the Music Association of California Community Colleges.

MACCC is the professional organization representing all community college music teachers in California. This organization has been around for almost 60 years and has helped millions of students transition from the high school to a fouryear college. We have a wonderful conference every fall in November and even have a California Community College Music Day officially legislated to take place every May 11. We have also teamed up with the Stand Up 4 Music Coalition to work with other organizations to advance music education in California. Please visit our website (www.emaccc.org) to get more information on our conference, membership, and advocacy efforts. You can also e-mail me directly any time: dbetancourt@cerritos.edu.

Dr. David Betancourt, MACCC president

California State University, Dominguez Hills In May of 2014 California State University Dominguez Hills was designated as an “All- Steinway” School. The first four-year public institution in California to attain the title.

With the purchase of twenty-one new keyboard instruments our students have the benefit of excellence in their practice rooms, recital hall, teaching studios, ensemble rehearsal spaces, and classrooms. The music department also celebrated the highest number of B.A. graduates in its more than fifty-year history with strong representation in the Class of 2014 from both the performance and music education options.

The Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music in the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University offers a B.M. in music education with either vocal or instrumental emphasis.

As part of our efforts to provide our students with valuable pre-service experiences, we have started two exciting projects:

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The Choral Music Camp Now in its third edition, the choral music camp serves the community at large, but it also gives our music education students a chance to get hands-on experience by assuming leadership/teaching roles such as: small ensemble directors, elective teachers (ear-training, class voice, etc.), camp counselors and section leaders.

Our music education students collaborate with the faculty in the process of choosing repertoire and lesson planning. The camp is open to any high school students, regardless of musical experience. In addition, scholarships are available to students of families facing financial hardship.

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Chapman University and Fletcher Elementary Partnership This partnership (starting in the fall of 2014) will help bring music education back to one of the Orange Unified School Board elementary schools, Fletcher Elementary.

Several years ago, elementary school music programs were eliminated in OUSD. This partnership is an effort to provide music education for all students at Fletcher Elementary, as well as to provide field experiences (observations, micro-teaching activities, etc.) for Chapman music education students. Dr. Angel Vázquez-Ramos will start the 4–6 grade choir, and Dr. Robert Frelly will help facilitate general music classes.

Dr. Angel M. Vázquez-Ramos • If you have an item for a future Higher Education Happenings column, please e-mail your item (in 200 words or less) to Larry Stoffel at stoffel@csun.edu. Submissions will be included on a first-come/space-available basis.

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S A N JO O S É S TAT E UN I VE R S I T Y OS S CHO OL OF MUSIC IC & D ANCE NC CE

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Dr. Frred Cohen h DIRECTOR, SCHOOL L OF MUSIC & DA ANCE

Faculty includes: Fa Dr. Diana Hollinger, Coordinator, Mu usic Ed duc tion duca Dr Ed Dr. Edw ward Harrris ris, Director, Un niversity Bands Dr. Aaron Lington, Coordinator, JJa azz az z Studie d s, 20114 Grammy Wiinner

DEGREES OFFERED Ba Bachelor of Arts in Music Bachelor he of Music Masters of o Arts in Music

Dr. Jefffrey Benson, Director, Choral Activiities Mi hael DiGiacint Mic i to, t Director of Orchestra Scott Pierson, Director, Spartan M Ma archin h g Band

sjsu.edu/music d c S J S U A P P L I C AT I O N D E A D L I N E November 30, 2014, apply at csumentor.com

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E N T RA N C E & S C H O L A R S H I P AU D I T I O N S

music@sjsu.edu @sj u.edu

For dates and times: sjsu.edu/music/auditions

B E A M U S I C M A J O R F O R A D AY October 22, 2014

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