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• President's Message:AdvocacyUp<lateand Spring Events by CMtA Presdent John Burn
• BeyondTalent by Emma Joleen, CMEAGeneral Music Representative
• CSULBNAfMECollegiate Member Reflections by Anne Fennell, CMEAVice President
• Bay Section News by Bruce C. Lengacher,CMEABay Section President
• Greetingsfrom Central Section by BUIWilkinson, CMtA Central Section President
• North Coast Section's First HOYEFestival by Ho:ly MacOonell, CMtA North Coast Section President
• Southeastern Section Events by Ryan DuckWorth,CMEASoutheastern Section President
• Become a CMEAMentee by Marl<Nicholson, CMEAMentorship ProgramCtlair
• The Future Leadersof Our Profession by Dr. Dennis Siebenaler,CMEACollegiate Representative
• CCOAState Cooferern:eand Honor Choir by Rob lstad, CMENCCDARepresentative
• CMEAState Choral Festival 2019 Wrap-Up by Nancy Ludwig. CMEAState Choral FestivalCoordinator
• Shorteningthe Distance by Samuel Tsugawa,NAfMEWestern Division President
• PrepareYourMusic Programfor the Future by Dr. TomTattoo
• Parent AdvocacySummit at CASMEC2019 by Scott Hedgecock, CMtA Immediate Past President
• CMEA2019 State AwardWinners and CMEAGara Awards Banquet
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President's Message
Advocacy Update and Spring Events
by John Bum CMEAPresident
t was so great to see so many dedicated music educators at CASMEC. Whether in the exhibit hall, the concert venues, one of the many session rooms, or simply hanging out in the hallways and lobbies of the convention center and hotels, Fresno was buzzing with excitement, activity, and music education.
Thank you to Jeff Detlefsen, the CBDA presidentelect and convention host who, more than any other person, worked out all the }~sties to fit our largerthan-ever conference into Fresno. Thank you to Joe Cargill, our CMEA CASMEC coordinator for making sure all of our CME.A session needs were met. Thank you to all our CMEA council of representatives and board members for hosting all of our sessions and • in particular thank you to Emma Joleen, our general music representative. CASMEC has more general/classroom music sessions than any other kind of session. CMEA is about music education for all srudents, pre-K through university, and we are proud and thankful for all the hard work Ms. Joleen put in to insure fantastic general music sessions for our many con- ~\ B(RN.¼.<t SO ference attendees.
Our general session keynote speaker was Sam Tsugawa, originally from Hawaii, now a music education professor at Brigham Y.oungUniversity in Salt Lake City, Utah, and our di fNAfME Western Division president. Dr. Tsugawa's-keynote message matched the lens through which our CMEA State Board's five-year plan was drafted, the concept of IDEA: Inclusiveness, Dive~ity, Equity and Access. I am proud that so many of the sessions we presented at CASMEC explicitly addressed this concept, including sessions on culrurally continuedon page live
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responsive teaching, music education for special~needs students, encouraging and supporting women as leaders in our profession, and celebrating our LGBTQmusic students.
Another highlight of our general session was introducing out new legislative advocate, Martha Zaragoza Diaz. Ms. Zaragoza Diaz comes to us with more than thirty years of experience as a lobbyist in Sacramento. Her recent experience has been in support of education for EngJjsh learners, which is a natural fit for CMEA's quest for inclusiveness. Ms. Zaragoza Diaz is our voice in Sacramento and it was clear in her talk that she understands the current political climate, and how best to exert our agenda within it. While it is encouraging that there is a desire to increase funding for education in California, we havework to insure that increased funding for education in California indeed results in increased funding for arts and music education in Califor-
nia. Which is why our annual Stand Up 4 Music Day continues to be important.
Advocacy Update
On January 27, hosted by the NAMM Show, twelvedifferent California music education associations all met to determine our legislative and policy priorities for this legislativecalendaryear.These priorities are:
1 LCFF/LCAP - Advocating for increased funding for the Local Control Funding Formula and educating all stakeholders how to leverage this system to benefit music and arts education across our state.
2 Credentialed Arts Educators - Our vision is for all students to have access to arts education programs taught by credentialed teachers during the school day.
3 Elementary Data - We havegood access to data regarding the number of middle school and high school students that receive arts education, but we do not have this for
elementary school students yet.
4 Professional Development for the New Arts Standards - The new California Arts Standards (CAS) have officially been adopted! Now we advocate for professional development funding for us to implement these new standards.
5 Education Code Compliance -The California Ed Code clearly states that all elementary school students shall have arts education and that all secondarystudents must have access to arts education, yet we know this is not a reality in many of our California schools.
6 State Seal of Arts Education -Thjs idea is new and still forming; what if students could be granted a special seal on their diploma for showing four years of outstanding work in the arts in high school?
Understanding that things constantly change in Sacramento and other priorities may emerge, these are the bullet points we
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will be discussing with state legislators at our annual Stand Up 4 Musjc Day on Thursday, May 9.
CMEA State Festivals
Thank you to Nancy Ludwig, who served as our CMEA state choral festival coordinator for the past three years, and established our CMEAState Choral Festival as an exemplary performance opportunity to showcase excellence in choral education and performance from across the state. The 2019 CMEA State Choral Festival,held in the world-class Musco Center at Chapman University in Orange, was an absolutely wonderful day.
Thank you to Keith Johnson, who has served multiple years as our CMEA state band/orchestra festival coordinator. Keith made the move from UC Davis to Sonoma State a successful one. The CMEA State ll:md/Orchestra Festival on April 12 at the Weill Hall at Sonoma State will indeed be a full day of outstanding performances in a world-cl:1ss hall adjudicated by some of the nation's top adjudicators.
Thank you to our premier sponsor of the CMEA State Festivals, World Projects. Their im:rcascd support has made venues such as the Musco Center at Chapman possible. Abo, thank you to Dr. Andy Collinsworth of the Sonoma State Music Department for making Weill Hall at Sonoma St.1tchappen for us.
Though hoth M~.Ludwig and Mr.Johnson are not continuing as our state festival coordinators, they have established excellent templates, anll though I can't say any· thing official at this time, look for e-mail from CMEA this spring. We will continue to offer both a CM EA State Choral and CMEA State Band/Orchestra Festival in world-class venues in spring 2020.
Speaking of state festivals,don't forget to encourage your superior-rated solo .ind ensemble students to ~take it to the next level" and perform at one of our CM EA State Solo Ensemble Festivals: May 3 and 4 at Sacramento State and May 11 at Azusa Pa· cific University.
Have a great spring with your students. Every day our students make music, the world becomes a better place
Dear CMEA Membership,
Congratulations to the following ensembles and their directors for being selected to perform at the 2019 CMEA State Band and Orchestra Fes· tival, presented by World Projects, on Friday, April 12, 2019 at Weill Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University.
Central High School Wind Ensemble
Leonard lngrande, Director
Claremont High School String Orchestra
Matthew Gilbert, Director
Claremont High School Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Gilbert, Director
Folsom Middle School Orchestra
Margy Moon, Director
Henry M. Gunn High School Wind Ensemble
Todd Summers, Director
Holmes Junior High School Advanced Orchestra
Angelo Moreno, Director
Hopkins Jr. High School Advanced Orchestra
Greg Conway, Director
Hopkins Jr. High School Wind Ensemble
Gregory Conway, Director
Independence High School Wind Symphony
David Green, Director
James C. Enochs High School Wind Ensemble!
Phil Vallejo, Director
John F. Kennedy Middle School Philharmonic Strings
Johnathan Hsu, Director
Tierra Linda Middle School Symphonic Band
Joseph Murphy, Director
We are also excited to welcome the San Jose State University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. David Vickerman as our featured collegiate ensemble. Our distinguished panel of adjudicators include: Kevin Sedatole from Michigan State University, Dr. Jesse Leyva from Kent State University, Dr. Andy Collinsworth from Sonoma State University, and Charles Latshaw, director of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra in Colorado.
Criteria for selection included receiving a unanimous superior rating at a CMEA or SCSBOA festival during the spring 2018 festival season. In addition, participating directors were required to hold membership in CMEA at both the time of application and festival performance. All submissions were ranked blindly by a panel of leading music educators to determine the top twelve groups selected to perform in 2019.
CMEA wishes to thank all of our membership for support of this high quality festival. Congratulations again to all of the participating ensembles for their selection.
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Beyond Talent
by Emma Joleen CMEAGeneralMusic Representative
How often do teachers call upon a srudent with talent to demonstrate an activity or perform a passage of music? How many rimes have parents asked if their children are talented? How are teachers to build and strengthen arts communities when srudems believe that talent is necessary to be skillful at music? CASMEC 2019 offered a few suggestions.
Dr. Emily Mason's session, "Awaken the Creative Genius Using Dance, Poetry and Visual Arts as Inspiration for Music Making," shared a variety of strategies that drew comparisons between music, movement, visual art, literature, and poetry. Dr. Mason discussed the importance of balancing teacher and srudent·centered instruction in
the creative process. She highly recommended "doing first" within a whole group setting before collaborating in pairs or small groups. Metacogni· tion came into play when participants recognized and reflected upon each other's work by sharing, displaying, performing, or recording. The simple act of acknowledging a peer's creative choice encouraged further invention and improvisation. Improvisation was a massive component of Peripole's sponsored clinician, Richard Lawton, and his session, "Jam Along Using Pop Music To Teach Beginning Recorder.• Mr.Lawton demonstrated that any person, no matter what age, can learn to play the recorder. He provided the perfect remedy for eliminating the need for talent. Mr. Lawton taught participants to play along with recorded music, thereby enabling a sense of the groove and allowing for students to feel a "real musician" sound at play. Mr. Lawton recommends Bryan Ferry's Let's Stick Together as a perfect jamalong tune because of the recurring horns on pitch *A."Mr. Lawton demonstrated the song as a partner dance by locking elbows, turning, and switching partners. Such an activity builds skill in playing the instrument as well as encouraging confidence for creating a composition. Before notating composition, Mr. Lawton embarked upon something more ambitious: improvisation of the G pentatonic scale when the guitar music begins in Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. After allowing participants to internalize the groove, the pitch palette for improv:isation came through a simple "students echo each phrase" learning, listening, and watching the teacher's hands experience. When students were able to echo accurately, the addition of complex pitches and rhythmic ideas offered another level to
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the Leamingexperience. Teachers who are keen to transform the recorder into a multi-faceted learning experience are welcome to contact M.r. Lawton by e-mail: richard@richardlawtonmusic.com.
The West Music-sponsored clinician, David Thaxton, used movement-based improvisation focusing on an exploratory movement to express all aspects of the sel£ His demonstration provided excellent models for appropriate foundational spatial and social interaction. Mr.Thaxton's "The Body Shop" was a fashion show with a hilarious runway of incredible body parts. The confidence and audacity of participants increased with each new walk down the runway. Attendees formed a "longways set" facing a partner and showed off their new body parts and how they move to the music Future Calls the Dawn, by Felix da Housecat. CASMEC participants laughed, giggled, smiled, sang, pulled faces, stretched out their bodies, and st.rutted down the conference center like it was a supermodel runway in Paris (Versace would have been impressed). Moving and grooving to the music of Felix da Housecat was a great source of inspiration for the attendees. Mr. Thaxton was a highlight of
the elementary and general music presentations. For further information, please contact Mr. Thaxton by e-mail: david@acemm.us.
A significant feature of CASMEC 2019 was the general music session ~Songs of Spirit," presented by Maree Hennessy, director of the Kodaly Center, Holy Names University. "Songs of Spirit" explored world music repertoire with approaches to engage students in upper elementary and middle school. Ms. Hennessy highlighted the need for metacognition, appropriate challenge, task-specific feedback, and accomplishment co ensure that young adolescents strive. Ms. Hennessy shared research by Marrin Seligman (PositivePsychology) who suggests, "Reaching beyond where you are is importantt and that a sense of accomplishment is key to wellbeing and flourishing (2012). Another example from John Hattie and Shirley Clarke (2018) addresses the need for taskspecific and timely feedback, and how this motivates learners to strive. Such a philosophy ventures beyond praise and focuses on effort above talent. For example, "good girl/boy," or "you are a natural," are examples of praise that label and limit rather
than encourage deep thinking, metacognition, reflection, and independence. Ms. Hennessy's session highlighted the need to make students aware of their musical thinking and the effort involved in accomplishment. In this way,young musicians can learn to value and strive toward the skills required to make music for themselves. Finally, Ms. Hennessy utilized a new video resource, called The Green Sally Up Project, which seeks to provide quality instructional video resources for music teachers worldwide.
Further reading
Clarke, S. and Hattie,]. (2018) Visible Learning Feedback, Routledge.
Mc William, E. (2008) The Creative Workforce:How to Launch Young People into High Flying Futures.Sydney: UNSW Press.
Seligman, M.E.P. {2012) Flourish, Atria Books.
The Green Sally Up Project: https:/ /www.facebook.com/GreenSal1yUp.Project/
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Tamara Thies, Ph.D. Coordinatorof Music Education and Chapter Advisor
*As the advisor to our NAfME at the Beach chapter on the California State University, long Beach campus, I am honored and privileged to work with amazingmulti•talented,multi-genre mu· sicians who havea passion to teach and team. I have had the opportunity to participate in the rebirth of a dormant chapter over the past two and a half years as the students continue to grow membershipas well as develop support· ive, collaborative,and professionalactiv· ities. Their missionto support each other through peer mentorship programs, develop professional networks and presentation skills by attending and participating in CMEA events, and organizing a comprehensive collegiate conference for all pre-service music teachers in California, aBreaking Barriers~ that was held on Saturday, March 23, 2019, exemplifythe reasons why I enjoy guiding this group of future music educators. The future of music education looks very brighlft
CSULBNAfME Collegiate Member Reflections
The California State University, Long Beach NAfME Collegiate Chapter is a thriving group of aspiring music educators. The chapter students are supported by their advisor Tamara Thies, PhD as they navigate the world of music education.
CSULB NAfME CollegiateChapter Officers
Co-Presidents: NatalieDo and Emmerick Doan
Secretary:Edward Corbett
Treasurer. Isabel BarajasRodriguez
Fundraising Chair: Jason Erece
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*I am currently co-president with my classmate, Emmerick Doan, of the CSU LB NAfME Collegiate Chapter. We decided to take on this role together because we both deeply cared about the organization, but also learned that our best work was when we were able to help and support each other. As encouraged by our own professors, other teachers arc one of our greatest resources, and Emmerick and l were excited to take on this role to really push our chapter to be what we envisioned it could be, especially with hosting our Collegiate Conference in March. With the 2019-2020 being our first officially established year at CSULB, we hope to expand our chapter and showcase our university's unique music education program."
The CaliforniaState University,Long BeachNAfME CollegiateChapter 2018-2019 officers.
"] really enjoy being the president of the CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter because it allows me to work and organize projects with so many amazing and talented individuals. I took on this position because I wanted to grow this chapter and have it become a resource for music education students, both instrumental and choral, and it's allowed me to learn a lot about myself and about the world of music education. ff
"I became a NAfME member in order to expand the amount of teaching resources, as well as grow a network of young music educators."
Edward Corbett, CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter Secretary
"I became a member of CSULB NAfME because I wanted to be more involved with other music education srudents at school. I thought it would be a great opportunity to meet others who are passionate about teaching music like I am."
"I became a member of the CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter because of my passion for music education, and desire to connect with others in the same field. I felt that there were many forms of community within the music conservatory at CSULB, but music education seemed to be so widespread across choral and instrumental. In the NAfME Chapter, all walks of music education students were able ro connect and build a community together. ff
Natalie Do
"I became a member of the CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter because I wanted to open my network of music education students on campus. When I first started out as a music education srudent, I wasn't sure where to go to find resources or networks, and NAfM:E was able to provide me with resources that I can use as a future educator"
"I look forward to exploring the multiple classroom experiences that will help me grow as a music educator. As a 'band person,' I look forward to not only teaching wind band, but diving into the world of teaching strings and orchestras."
Edward Corbett
''To start working. I've been in school for nineteen consecutive years, not including the year for my credential (I'm 24). I want to get out there and sec what's there for "me.
Jason Erecc, CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter Fundraising Chair
"I look forward to obtaining myteaching credential and then start working at a school."
Isabel Barajas Rodriguez
"The music education program at CSULB has proven highly progressive, introducing any new ideas and programs that were not offered where I was from. Once graduated, I look forward to bringing the modern forms of music education such as modem band, electronic music, and cultut· ally inclusive education to the public schools in which ] hope to teach."
•The CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter is a great aid to achieving my goals as a music educator because it is an extremely helpful resource to information, opportunity, and even guidance that I may need. Being given the opportunities to attend conferences, I have been able to learn beyond what is taught at university, as well as meet extremely influential practicing • teachers in the field."
Natalie Do
"The CSULB NAfME Collegiate Chapter has helped me achieve my goal by providing me with the resources and networks 1 needed to become a better educator.
Bygoing to conferenceslike CASMEC, I've been able to learn so much about the music education field, and I've been able to connect and meet so many other music educators from around the state. I know that when I graduate and complete the credential program, I will have a support system that will help me throughout the troubles of being a first-year educator."
Emmerick Doan
"Being a part ofNAfME has been extremely beneficial due to the multiple amount of articles being posted monthly by music educators for music educators. My goal is to always be learning and growing as a teacher, and these resources help achieve this goal."
Edward Corbett
What is one of the projuts youhaw done as a mnnher that has made an impart on youasanaspiringmusiceducatrir'f Whatandwhyt
"One of the projects I have done as a member was attending CASMEC as well as helping one of my professorspresent on
her sessions with some of my fellow classmates/members. Attending CASMEC was such an eye-opening experience, and l learned more than I had imagined in one weekend. By having the opportunity to partake in both a technologicallymodern performance, and a culturally responsive performance, helped me see how vast and opportunistic music education can be, and that there are really no limits to what can be learned through music."
Natalie Do
"The big project that we are working on is our collegiate NAfME conference "Breaking Barriers." I see what it takes to plan, organize, and facilitate an event like this. This experience will help me organizing future events on my own as a music educator."
Jason Erece
"One of the projects I've done as a member that has made an impact on me as a music educator has definitely been volunteering for our school's undergraduate auditions. I was able to connect with high
school seniors who were interested in pucsuing a career in music and talk to them to help answer any questions about music in college.Listening to everyone's stories and the reasons why they chose music as a career path made me inspired, hoping that one day I'll be able to inspire someone through music as well."
Emmerick Doan
"Having the opportunity to play at CASMEC for a teacher's presentation helped me realize the importance of induding different students' culrures in education. When I start teaching, I want to make sure that I can incorporate my students' cultures into my lessons."
Isabel Barajas Rodriguez
If you would like to create or join a NAfME Collegiate Chapter near you. email col1egiate@nafme.orgor cmea@calmusiced.com.Chapter highlight by CMEA Vice-President Anne Fennell.
BaySectionNews
by Bruce c. Lengacher • CMEABay Section President
The year has flown by so far. As I'm writing this, it dent from Edna Brewer Middle School in Oakland to is the last week in February,we're in tech week for paqicipate in the All-State Middle School Honor Band Cinderella, and Women's Golden State'is next • at GASMEC in February.We will be expanding our out~• Friday.Bay Section had a very productive fall and winter. reach program by providing CMEA: adjudic~rs-to go The fall was spent planning and on January 11 and 12, we inrQJ'ideJ ~oo]s,or schools that have not attended a held our annual Winter Conference at SanJose1State CMEA festivalbefore. CMEA in the Classroom provides University.This was our first time back at SJSU in four them with a workshop based on our festivalperformance years. Our Site Host, Dr. David Vickerman and his stu- rubrics:--Thehope is that more schools will sec what the dent NAfME chapter were incredible hosts and wofl<et8 process is and through that process,we will be providing a who helped us provide professionaldeve]'i'l?'Pentsessi~~, mQICeffective.and valuable source of professionalsupport concerts, and socialevents for more than ..00 BayArea1 and development. Additionally,we will continue to sponmusic educators.We also presented a Conference Show~~ djrectors who have not,:.ttended Winter Conference case Band (Albany High School, Craig Bryant) and Jr., anit·pro.videS<:holarshipsfor up to ten students 1in each of High Conference Honor Orchestra, Choir and Band. , the conf~ce .hQnor'ensemblesfrom Ti!!e I s/hools, and These were conducted by Joni Swenson, Suzie Martone\. be offering up to three festival fee sdffilarsbiP,sfor those and Julie Bounds, respectively.Wewereable to sponsor \ wG.79-ll'O~dlike to attend a festivalwho arc ,Jot financially two Title I teachers to attend the conference through our \ ab ttt o so. Outreach Program. \ 1 W.is • ,you a great start to the school year.
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The event was designed as a vehicle to merely bring the idea of primarygrade •classroom music to the minds.of the I stakeholdersin attendance.We wanted the:n to know that·ctassroom•musicdoes e~istand every school pistri~t should offer, ..:1ownof Hanford,where I have been·teach· ingthe majorityof my career,I recognize that elementaryschool districts in my•' -
t music to every student.We wanted to plant a·seedof opportunity and e.mpower· • • •me~t to lhe officials who lead,ahddeter· mine where money is allocated. Through and through we W,!!lledthem to leave with a reminder.that music is woven into the fabric"of all our IM!s and it's a vital component of our developmentas people in a society,not just a vehicleto learn a partic· ular instrumentor enhancetest scores. By the joy in the students' faces,£m confi· dent they_g(!tthat message.Wasthis._ county are inadvertentlylimiting student ac~ss to music to only'those who°show interest in~band.If it's happeningin ~y hometown I'm pretty sure it's also happen· ing in othertowns•inCentral Section as well as other sections of our state.
In some ways I understandwhy. If all a school district knows is band, then the I other spol<esof the"music wheel are out J-. of sight, out ofmind. This is where Central S . ... and • ect10ncomes 11110play steps into 1 action. We, as an organization,are making a concerted effort to reach be-yondour... current scope,of only being a festivalorganizationand r~· O\rtto all areas of music education needs. On March 131h, CM~ ~tral Section's generalmusic r~resentative, Dr. Emily Mason,Fresno ... State, conducted a classroommusic se· m 1onstrationlesson before a group of more than.twenty Kings Coon~ superint~ndents and school officials in Hanford.
• event a success? Like the farmers in our • • • region~willtell you, only timewill tell. In.other Central Section news, led pas· sionatelyby Ryan Dirlam,our rural schools co'mmitteeis continuing to grow in size and scope. The committee,only in its first year of existence,held a rural schools band festival on Apri!9th wi1!:J~lans to ex· pend choral and orchestra in the future. We are pleased to also welcome aboard Ashley Shine, Weaver Middle School (Merced}, who is the new Merced/Mariposa representativeto our board. Central During that time, she led a classroom of Section mournsthe loss of Bruce Allen, twenty second-gradestudents through a band director, LemooreHigh School, from typical thirty-minutegeneralmusic lesson the 1980s-ear!y 1990s. Mr. Allen passed followed after by a Q and A session in away in North Carolinawhere he lived which she was able to explain,whatwas after retirement. happeningbehind the scenes as the stu·
Congratulationsto the nine CMEA state dents were singing, movingand engaging music award honoreesfrom Central Sec· in activity.We as music educators know lion honored at CASMEC: John Biller, Or· that there's so roochmore happeningthan chestra Educator Award, Stockdale High just them havingfun. School (Bakersfield);Jeff Detlefsen,Cen-
tral ~ction Outstanding Music Educator Awa1, Sie~acific High School (Han· ford); Leonardlngrande, Band Educator -r. Award, Central High School (Fresno);Abi· gail Sorber, Dr. Rlindi Carp Choral Music EducationScholarship Recipient, B Oiamame High Schoor(Vi~ia); John Sorber, - .J Choral Educator,College of Sequoias (Visalia);Marilyn•strongin, Outstanding AdministratorAwa,v, c/rran Middle School (Bakersfield)~Dr. Lawrence "Doc" • Sutherland,CMEA Fifty YearMember,di· rector of bands emeritus; FresnoState; Jose Vargas,MiddleSchJo1Educator • Award,Granite Ridge IntermediateSchool (Clovis); Diego Zarate-White,Elementa,y I Music Specialist Award, Madera Unified I School District. Congratulationsalso to the numerouspresentersand stud\t per· forming groups from Central Section fepresentedat CASMEC. We are proud ~. all of you. \
Lastly,this is an election year tor Ceo· trat Section which meansour board bids farewell to Kirk Clague, immediatepast president.Kirk has been an inspirationto all who led us through our strategic plan· nlng while servingas president. Steve McKeithen,associatedirector of bands, FresnoState, will become Central Section president in June.There's no doubt in my mind that Central Section will thrive under Mr. McKeithen's leadership.I have thoroughlyenjoyed my two yearsserving as Central Section president. My hope is that I did everythingI possibly could do to ad· vance music education in my capacity and inspire those with me to help move the needle forward.
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North Coast Section's First HOYE Festival
• by Holly MacDonell CMEANorth Coast SectioJ President
The North Coast Section hosts jazz.instrumental,choral, and solo and ensemble festivals each year, but not a festival for general music. Thisyear, a few of us decided to put on a workshopstyle general music festival. We called it HOYE, the Honor Orff Youth Ensemble.The four plan• ners of HOYE shared in the inspiration and excitement of collaborating on an event that showcased general music education, which helped to keep our planring meetings very lively.
We settled on including fourth through sixth grade students that were nominated by interested teach· ers (in addition to a couple of seventh graders as helpers or assistants). Part of our planning revolved aroond one of the reeident Orff advocates in our area. She ~s exertedto lead the workshop, as she had never leda one-day workshop of this sort. The four plannefS,a nominating teacher, and an addi· tional retired teacher helped out the day of the event. The logistics (setting a date, finding a location and site host, locating ellO\Jghinstruments for all participants, getting 1 the word out to students, choosing repertoire, etc.} were completed in the few months, and days, leading up to the big event.
We held HOYE on a Saturday in March from about 10 am. to 4 p.m. The schedule allowed for multi• pie breaks and lunch, and included full-group activities as well as small'group sessions like recorder im· provisation and drama. Our leader chose a loose theme of an evolution ofmusic inspired from the continent of Africa. She chose a nice variety in three tunes: a mallet percussion piece; a mallet and un· • pj!ched p9rcussion1 recorder, and singing piece with a story and actors; and a fun acapella hand jive dance.
It was exciting from the moment we had all the mallet instruments assembled in one place. The stu·
dents seemed engaged from the very beginning, were very open about all the activities, and worked
well as a team. It was especially inspiring to watch the student musicians embr~e opportunities to ere·
ate and add their own ideas.
• We ended the day by sharing what the musicians had worked on all day. The audience was very ap·
·- preciative and had wonderful things to say about what they witnessed and what the students took away with'°them.,tromthe day. Cleanup was rather easy as we needed no music stanc;ls,sheet music, or chairs (except for wrnrtthe audience used). We all left the day feeling inspired and excited for next year's HOYE Festival.
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SoutheasternSection Events
by Ryan Duckworth
CMEA Southeastern Section President
On March21, 2019, the CMEA Southeastern Section held its first annual "Choral Tune Up"-a works•in-progress festival. We had five ensembles from three schools in atten· dance. It was a wonderful experience for all involved and we look forward to offering the same experience again next year.
This festival was a special project of mine and represented a cul· mination of almost three years of planning. So many of the festivals today focus on the final product: We refine our presentation as per· fectly as we can and then present it, often only a single time. I envi· sioned a festival that focused on the process instead. Where ensembles could share the music-teaming process, "warts and all~ and learn from the experience in ways that would help them refine both their process and their product. I hoped to create a sate space, where ensembles could get helpful advice from a clinician that tney coold apply immedi~tely to their musical journeys.
We opened our festival with everyone warming up together, including an amazing tonal placement exercise lead by Bradley Hampton (professor of vocal jau at Cal State San Bernardino) and a large ensemble "circle song• in the manner advocated by Dr. Joshua Palkki. Each ensemble performed a few selections, or even parts of selections in some cases~then Dr. Kellori Dower would join the ensemble on stage and spend about fifteen minutes working with 1he ensemble on 1he literature they just presented"'~ format allowed for aDattendees to learn from each group's experience·and not jus1 their own.
When the, nexMo-last group took the stage, I experienced something truly spectacular. FN'Stof all, the ensemble's director was out on maternity leave, so the ensemble was brought by their very sup· portive drama teacher. Th:y had not had a music teacher in the classroom for several weeks and so had rehearsed almost entirely on their own. Further, their ca"1f)US was still reeling from the lo6s of a student by suicide back in October. Their ensemble performed PleaseStay by Jake Runestad (JR0062/41 ·D-1) which they had dedicated to their deceased classmate. 11was a powerful performance and a few of the performers shed some tears. Dr. Dower took the stage and encouraged the enstl"1ble to not hold back: To be vulnerable and put their feelings rijJht out there in the performance. They performed it again and there was not a dry eye in the house. It was a cathartic moment, for the periormers and audience. We joined together in a corporal~• moment of tendergrief.In truth, it
was one of those sacred, musical moments that you cany with you forever.
It J.sin that moment that I was reminded of the awesome power Wf3hlW9as music educators. We, of course, teac11,tnusicalskills and competencies, but we also empower young people, people who may often feel d1sempowered or even marginaliz~. We can reach those kids in ways other subjects cannot. We hav{ the_free· dom, and I'd even say the responsibility, to always engage with the emotional content of our literature. I've attended other pr~entations on this where it was referred to as the •affeciive domain." WhateYer you call it, it's an integral and important part of what we do.
It is also why we need to continue to advocate for access for all students to a high-quality music education taught by credentialed. teachers as part of their regular school day. I promised those stu· ' dents in my auditorium after that performance that I would share their story. 1have shared it here with you and when I speak to our , state legislators as part of Stand Up 4 Music day in Sacramento, I will certainly tell their story again.
In a way, that is exactly what advocacy is: Telling our story to every~wll,O wi1Ilisten. Telling how we have seen music empower students, how wehaxe witnessed it change cultures at schools, how we have seen students transformed by their experiences in music education. To whom have•you tolcLyour stories lately? Advocacy does not always happen in large ways; indeed, my own experi· .· ence is that the best advocacy happens in a million little ways. • Send an e·mail to your staff bragging on your students. Attend a schoolboard meeting and speak out in celebration of Music in Our Schools M()nth. Write a letter to a pohcy maker telhng them a short o,yof how you havewitnessed the power of music education ln a udent's Irle. Take a coHeague out for coffee and share your sto· ries. What we have happening in our classrooms is oftentimes too special and too power1ul to keep to ourae!Yes. ·-..
Are you seeking an opportunity to advance your music education career? If so, the CMEA Mentorship Program has openings for mentees. Whether you have several years under your belt or are just beginning your career, the CMEA mentorship program is for you.
Thirty CMEA mentors in all nine regional divisions across the state are ready to share their vast experiences and successeswith you. Teaming up with an experienced teacher gives you valuable feedback that is specific to music. In this program, you will gain new insights into powerful classroom teaching techniques, creative and inspiring ideas, and the most effective teaching strategies and best practices in the field of music education. CMEA mentors provide new perspectives on how to achieve student excellence and success and give you increased confidence in the classroom. No longer should you feel isolated on your school campus when expert mentors are available to be your very important network of professional colleagues.
The application window is now open. Takethis opportuniry right now to apply and become a CMEA mentee .
CMEA Collegiate Councilat
CASMEC
The Future Leaders of Our Profession
by Dr. Dennis Siebenaler
CMEA Collegiate Representative
There was an excellent turnout of college students at the "Pizza with the Presidents" event on Friday of CASMEC in Fresno.
CMEA President John Bum welcomed the students, and then there were brief presentations by representatives from some of the organjzations that participate at CASMEC (California Band Directors Association, California Alliance for Jazz, California Orchestra Directors Association, and the California Choral Directors Association). The consistent message of all of these leaders was to get involved in your professional organizations, particularly for the purpose of networking and professional development.
Following the pizza lunch, there was a meeting of the CMEA Collegiate Council, led by Leah Muske, of San Diego State University. There were two brief, informational presentations by representatives of the CMEA Mentorship program and Tri-M.Theyen-
couraged the use of mentors for professional development of young teachers, and the involvement of high school students in a music honor society.
The Council then discussed making CASMEC more accessible for college students with some inexpensive housing options, having scheduled meetings and possibly a social opportunity as jY.U'tof the printed program, and the large number of conference sessions already available to attendees with diverse interests and needs.
The Collegiate Council has also been tasked with revising the current Collegiate Handbook, aligning it more closely with the CMEA strategic goals and mission. They are working on this independently, and will bring it back together at their meeting in March.
As always, it is encouraging for me to see the bright and capable future leaders of our profession.
TCCDA State Conference and HonorChoir
by Rob Istad CMf.A/CCDARepresentative
he California Choral Directors Associationpresented their Fourth Annual State Conferenceand All-State Honor Choirs in San Jose March 14-16. The conferenceincluded a lineup of stellar reading sessions,invited interest sessions,and concert performances.We were inspiredby groundbreakingsessionsin socialjustice, workingwith middle school choruses,and promoting musicliteracyin our classrooms.In addition to the twelveauditioned choirs from throughout the state, we invited the internationallyacclaimedbarbershopchorus Fog City Singers to perform on our Thursday night concert. Dr. Rollo Dillworth (TempleUniversjty)conducted our middle school all-state honor choir, Dr. Richard Bjella(TexasTech) conducted our TTBB all-state choir, Dr. Giselle Wyers (Universityof Washington) conducted our SATB all-state choir, and Dr. KevinJohnson (Spelman College) conducted our SSAA all-state choir.
I would like to specificallythank CCDA State ConferenceCoordinator Kristina Nakagawafor her amazingwork assemblingour lineup in coordination with our colleagueson the CCDA board. I expressgratirude for the incredible work our all-state honor choir coordinator Molly Peters and her team of volunteers have expended to organize life-changingmusicalexperiencesfor our students. I also thank our program partner San JoseState Universityand CCDA President-ElectJeffreyBenson for their support of our conferenceand programs.
Next year,we will againjoin our colleaguesfor CASMEC, the California All-State Music Education Confercnce,in Fresno on February20-23, 2020. Our all-state choirs will again perform alongsidethe all-state bands, all-state orchestrasand all-statejazz ensemblesas a testament to unified music advocacy in the Golden State. I extend many thanks to the boards ofCBDA, CMEA, CODA and CAJ for their collegialityand organi'lationalefforts to bring the dream of a true state music educa6on conferenceto fruition.
CMEA State Choral Festival 2019 Wrap-Up
by Nancy Ludwig CMEA State Choral Festival Coordinator
The 2019 CMEA Stace Choral Festival took place on Wednesday March 20, 2019. lt was hosted by the Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University located in Orange, Califomia, and largdy sponsored by World Projects. Other sponsors include JWPepper and Wurrly. Adjudicators Joseph Modica from University of Redlands, Lori Marie Rios from College of the Canyons, and AngelVazquez-Ramos from CSU San Bernadino were well received and did an outstanding job of continuing the expectation for true excellence at this festival.The ten participating choirs were extremely well prepared, and all represented their respective schools in the most positive way.
Participating choirs came from all over the state, represented middle school and high school choirs, and groups from different sized choral programs and all community types were represented from rural to metropolitan areas. This festival was a true representation of choral excellence,and all choirs and their conductors are to be commended for their outstanding work and dedication to this goal.
CMEA would like to thank the Musco Center for the Arts and Chapman University, as well as the student volunteers from the Fullerton Union High School Tri-M Student Chapter, and the Mountain View High School Choir Council.
Middle School Festival Participants
James Curran Middle School Chorale, Maritza Borja, director.
Ethel Dwyer Middle School Chamber Choir, Neil Reyes, director.
Hughes Middle School Chorale, Steven M. Clausen, director.
Los Cerritos Middle School Men's Ensemble,Janice Hague, director.
High School Festival Participants
Troy High School Vocal Ensemble, Mark Henson, director.
Woodbridge High School Chamber Singers, Rob Blaney,director.
Westlake High School Women's Chorale, Amy Rolniak, director.
Hanford High School Chamber Singers, Jennifer McGill, director.
El Diamante High School Chamber Singers,Justin Witt, director.
Mission Viejo High School Chamber Singers, Sarah Norris, director.
Announcements for the next CMEA State Choral Festival date and Joca-
Adjudicators:AngelVazquez-Ramos, Lori MarieRios,andJosephModica. PhotobyVane-Hemandez
tion will be made soon. As the school year comes to a dose, please keep in mind that any group who earned a unanimous superior rating at the CMEA or SCVA festival they attended in spring of the current year is eligible to apply for the state festival in the following year. Copies of adjudication sheets must be submitted along with your application in order for your ensemble to be considered, in addition to a current recording.
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CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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EthelDwyerMiddleSchoolChamberChoir, Neil Reyes,directOI'.
TroyHigh School Vocal Ensemble, Mark Henson, director.
by Samuel Tsugawa NAfME Western Division President
The West: Wide and Diverse
As I have traveled across the West· ern Division to attend state confer· ences, I am always impressed with the energy and enthusiasm of any group of music educators attending their state conference. At a recent gathering, I visited with a group of young college students as they regaled me with the sights, sounds, and people of their first state conference. Each of these visits re· minds me of the distance many of us travel to at· tend our respective state conferences such as the California All-State Music Education Confer· ence (CASMEC}.
Situated at the midway point of the state, and for some the midway point between winter and spring, CASMEC offers an opportunity for music educators from all over California to migrate for a few days toward warmer weather and even warmer fellowship with colleagues. Ironically, at· tending CASMEC and traveling the long dis· tances from San Diego, Orange, and L.A. Counties, the Highway 101 coast, Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Humboldt County, and especially CMEA members affected by the devastating wildfires and floods across the state, I believe tha1 CASMEC has "shortened the distance• between and among members of CMEA living and teaching in a wide and very di· verse state.
Shortening the Diatance
What
do I mean by "Shortening the Distance"?
As Western Division President, I have made many friends from Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Utah, and NAfME's most recent affiliate, 1he Western Music Educators Association in India A common challenge that music educators from all states in the Western Division face is that we are either spread out across wide spaces or are cloistered within high-traffic urban centers. Many music educators in urban areas have found it increasingly difficult to travel to performances, col· laborations, and advocacy activities because of the gridlock in their area, while music 1eachers in rural areas of the West feel isolated and dis· tanced from the suburban population centers of their states. Even music teachers from a geo· graphically tiny state such as Hawai'i endure the worst traffic in the U.S. on the island of O'ahu as well as dealing with the distance and isolation of teaching on one of the neighbor islands.
"Shortening the Distance" may mean how we teach and interact with students and colleagues that come from diverse cultures and back· grounds. I believe that the states of the Western Division include the most diverse group of teachers and students anywhere in the country. Politi· cally we have very blue states, very red states, and areas of purple shaded across the division. Our teachers and students come from increas·
ingly diverse backgrounds and cultures. Even in my home state of Utah, cultural and language diversity is evident in places like the Salt Lake City School District where students speak nearly 100 languages, or anywhere in the state where music teachers often seek help from a member of Latinos in Action to help translate to parents during a parent· teacher conference.
Expanding Music Making Opportunities
NAfME and music educators and leaders from across the Western Division have begun and engaged in initia· tives and programs to help "shorten the distance" so that more students may have opportunities to make music and be musicians in our schools. For the last two years, CMEAhas offered a profes· sional development conference entitled "Casting a Wider Net• that brings music educators together to le.amand develop methods of contemporary music making. This includes guitar, ukulele, digital music making, songwriting, music pro· duction, and popular music. The mission of" Casting a Wider Net" is to: "Catch the 80 percent who do not participate in our already successful large ensembles, and to support and inspire teachers to create innovative and new pathways of musical study so that all students can find themselves in music.
"Shortening the Distance" can also mean expanding music making opportu· nities for students beyond our success· ful band, orchestra, choir, and jazz (BOCJ) ensembles. For many inner city and remote rural areas of the Western Division, the BOCJ model is difficult to sustain. Schools such as Chinle High School located on the Navajo Reservatioo in northeastern Arizona, as well as in the Los Angeles Unified School District, their modern band or popular music programs have given students a resonant voice of meaningful music making at school. Nationally, the NAfME National Executive Board recently voted to ap· prove inclusion of an all-national honors modern band ensemble in the all•na· tional honor band, orchestra, choir, jazz, and guitar ensembles. Beginning in 2019, the best popular music and rock musicians will share the stage with the best instrumentalists and singers throughout the United States. As lead·
ers on the National Executive Board, we hope that the all-national honors modern band will be a model for state music associations to provide all-state opportunities for popular music and rock musicians to perform in their states.
Students Need to Feel Safe
"Shortening the Distance" may also mean breaking down barriers to music making and creating safe and affirming spaces for students to musically express themselves. As part of the San Diego Pride Parade, San Diego Unified School District Visual and Performing Arts Di• rector and Western Division Immediate Past President Russ Sperling has organ· ized the San Diego Youth Pride Band that offers LGBTO students a safe and affirming place to march, make music and have fun. Given the rash of suicides among our LGBTQ youth, Russ has consistently taught: "No one can make music unless all students feel safe. The music room must be a safe and affirming place for all students regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identification~
United Sound: Teaching Special Needs Students
Regarding special needs students, the hallmark of an inclusive music classroom for special needs students is a class· room where each child can participate fully in one meaningful curriculum. In Arizona. United Sound executive director Julie Duty has been instrumental in help· ing music teachers throughout Arizona organize instrumental music clubs to provide special needs students inclusion and access to band and orchestra pro· grams throughout Arizona and the West. Band and orchestra directors involved in United Sound organize student volun· leers who teach special needs students to play an instrument. Each group of two or three student volunteers work with an individual special needs student from an ability-appropriate method book published by United Sound. The goal is for each special needs student to make friends and gain a sense of confidence and accomplishment so that they may perform with their friends at concerts and ball games in the pep band. Accord· ing to Highland High School Orchestra (Gilbert, AZ)director Bill Bitter: "The kind of growth that we have seen in our special needs students and my students
who serve as mentors has been phenomenal. You never know what a student is able to do until you allow them the chance to do i1~
Changing "Or" to "And"
I have shared a small glimpse of how NAfME members throughout the West· ern Division are working toward in· creased and improved inclusion, diversity, equity, and access to music making and music learning in our schools throughout the West. Our states are wide and diverse. The challenges facing our profession as we approach a new decade will require a larger unified network of music educators articulating the value of music and music making in the lives of all Americans. No teacher who wants to teach, or student who wants to learn, should feel that they are alone, isolated, or marginalized. However, one of the greatest obstacles that fosters such isolation and marginaliza· tion is the belief that there is a single right way of teaching and learning.
The labels of urban or suburban or rural; classical or popular; challenged or able; LGBTO or straight tend to widen the gap and isolate. What if we changed "or" to "and~? The conjunction "and~ like the students participating in United Sound, tends to bring teachers and stu· dents closer together. As we shorten the distance between and among our states, districts, schools, classrooms, teachers, and students, I envision an in· creasing number of students finding their resonant voices through music, and more teachers joining our profession and deciding to make music education their life's calling.
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This article is taken from excerpts from a keynote address given at the 2019 California All-State Music Education Conference in Fresno, California, on February 14, 2019. Samuel Tsugawa serves as Western Division president and a member of the National Executive Board for the National Association for Music Educa· tion. He has served as president of the Utah Music Educators Association and is an associate professor of music education at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Prepare Your Music Program for the Future
by Dr. Tom Tatton
Conflicting signs are everywhere: We read that California enjoys a 15 billion dollar budget surplus, and that California could possibly see a 30 billion dollar "rainy day" fund. Yet, school districts are under financiaJ stress with decreasing enrollments, higher health care costs and increasing pension liabilities while teacher unions are seeking reduced class si7..es, additional counselors and fair salary increases.
Will this all balance out? So far, so good. The economy appears healthy and, with a healthy budget surplus, the California legislature is promising more money for education. However, the pendulum continues to swing. California's credit rating is below average (AA-), the unfunded pension liability is huge. Ever-competing budget demands, in addition to the "dedicated dollars," include addressing the affordable housing crises and the clamor for universal health care, and we all know that the there will be "the next recession." Even a mild recession could quickly deplete or severely reduce any budget surplus.
When your district declares the need to make cuts and promises to keep "belt tightening" away from theclassroom and students, watch out. If this never happens to you, wonderful, but the question re• mains: "What should you do to protect your program?" When I taught college music education classes (string methods), one of the early assignments was to write a brief essay on what they will teach that no other class, program, or teacher offers. At least this exercise asked students to think about defending their program which music teachers, particularly string teachers, often must do.
Here are some suggestions:
The first and best defense against cuts is to have a large, healthy, well-taught and visible music program. 1 This of course is a priori - that is the objective for every teacher of music. Band and choir programs are often large with string/orchestra programs traditionally slightly smaller. Same with visibility. Bands march, pep bands play for sporting events, and a choir is flexible, easily movable and doesn't re• quire years of training to participate. An orchestra program, to be more visible (a good strategy for every ensemble program), should invite board member$, administrators, and community leaders to upcoming concerts. Make sure to welcome and thank them for their support before the concert begins. Perhaps they can be invited to address the audience. Create a chamber program, which is a pedagogically sound thing to do. A well-t:rained,.suing q,~ -i,smovable, flexible and a great advocate for your program.
Same with a small vocal ensemble or a brass or woodwind quintet. Ask that a small ensemble perform before a school board meeting, a PTA event or other formal school functions. Make sure your ensemble competes in large group festivals organized by CMEA, SCSBOA or other organizations. Take your ensemble off the school grounds and perform for community events,social clubs and service organizations such as Lions or Rotary and women's clubs.
The second important act is to make sure your administrators, school board members, parents, teaching colleagues and community members know the value of what you teach. Inform, inform, inform. With your music colleagues prepare a written document that clearly articulates the skills, values, and personal growth students experience in your music program that does not happen in other areas of the curriculum. Include that music has a:
• Special language and skill set that includes different ways oflearning and understanding.
• Unique way of providing opportunities for self-expression and personal creativity. And,music:
• Connects us to the entire history of humankind in every country and every culture.
• Integrates with other areas of learning including math, history and science. Music, in fact, has a unique way of integrating with all learning disciplines.
• Builds self-esteem, self-confidence as well as self-discipline including prioritizing of time.
• Enhances the ability to identify, undef'" stand and appreciate beauty and timeless art.
• Helps us become more human, humane and enhances the quality oflife. 2
Certainly you and your colleagues can create something special for your district and your programs. Once thatdocument is in place, make sure that it is widely distributed and available at programs and open house situations. Talk about these unique and special learning opportunities at your programs.
Third, band programs usually have par-
ent booster organizations; often choir programs do also. lf your orchestra program does not have a booster program, make sure you know the rules, then create one. Perhaps the band and choir booster programs would like to combine and create a Music Booster Parent Organization. There is nothing more powerful than having 200 to 300 parents show up to a school board meeting each willing to share their belief that music is wgreat"for their particular child. Create a situation where, in a short time, you can mobiliu your parents to support your music program - an e-mail tree. In this regard, don't go it alone. It is much more powerful to combine your efforts across band, orchestra and choir as well as elementary, middle school and high school programs. This is not something that can be done at the last moment after the district announces budget cuts. Creating a parent group is helpful all along this educational journey (raising money, chaperoning, and assisting in a myriad of ways) but especially when the program is under attack.
Fourth, work with your musical community including private teachers, professional players, university teachers and fellow music teachers. Do not forget your colleagues in other classroom disciplines. Each of these people has a vested interest in the success of your program; they can assist in your time of need. An often overlooked group of potential supporters are the increasing numbers of senior citizens. Develop a relationshlp with the senior center in your community. Offer to play a short program at one of their gatherings. Invite them to attend your programs. They willjoin your growing numbers of supporters at school board meetings, if needed.
Lastly, keep good records: How many of your beginning students remain in the program throughout their K-12 education? What is your dropout rate at each level of insttuction? Do you know if your graduating seniors plan to keep playing, especially if they go into other fields of endeavor? How many parents, administrators and community members attend your concerts? Document all of your concerts, engagements and activities for each of your en-
sembles. If you sense something is amiss here, find the problem(s) and search for solutions. Talk to your colleagues and go to conferences where there are usually some sessions on retention and/or recruiting. Even more important, you can create a network of highly effective music teachers. They all want you to succeed, as I want you to succeed.
You can probably tell I am a string/orchestra person but all forms of music and music education are important to me and to us. Every child, and that child's complete education, is important to our community, indeed to our country and to our world. Some time ago I wrote in these pages that I expect the cadre musicians (by implication, painters, actors, writers and artists of all stripes) to be a major force in solving the social and political problems of our world and bringing peace to hu mankind. Defend your program at all costs. lt is important.
Notes
1.John Benhem, "Defending Music Programs with Economic Analysis," The Instrumentalist, August 1991, Pp.15-19.
2. Robert Gillespie, (former ASTA president), "Is Your Program Ready for Attack? Building a Defense for Your Orchestra," AmericaStringTeacher,Spring 1989, Vol. XXXIX No. 2, Pp.66-<>9.
3. Carolynn A. Lindeman (fonner MENC president), "At The Core," Music Educators Journal, May 1998, Vol. 84, No. 6, Pp. 6-7.
4. Thomas Tatton, "What Does It All Mean?" CMEA Magazine, Summer 2011, Pp. 9-10.
5. Thomas Tanon, "What Does It All Mean, Part Two?• CMEA Magazine Fall 2011, Pp. 9-10.
6. Thomas Tatton, "What Does It All Mean, Part Three?" CMEA Magazine, Winter 2012, Pp.11-12.
Dr. Tatton is a retiredstring specialist with the Lincoln Unified SchoolDistrict. He is afonmr Ca/ASTApresirknt and CMEIJ orchestrareprtsmtatiw. E-mail him al: ttatton43@gmail.com
Parent Advocacy Summit
by Scott Hedgecock CMEAImmediate Past President
Purpose: To lnfonn. Educate. and Empower Parents to be Strong Advocates for Music Education
CMEA presented the first Parent Advocacy Summit at CASMEC. As part of our ongoing commitment to advocacy work for music education, CMEA was the recipient of a grant from the County Music Association Foundation (CMA Foundation) to funher our advocacy work by expanding our reach to include parents of students in music classes.
The Parent Advocacy Summit was marketed to all parents of students in all-state ensembles as well as those who were at CASMEC with groups who were selected to perform. An enthusiastic and cagcMo-learn group of parents met with the CMEA Advocacy T cam for a session that included an Advocacy 101 fast track and examples of how they can be the best advocates for music education in their local schools, districts, and communities.
The session was led by the CMEA Advocacy Team
• John Burn, CMEA President
• Atmalyn De La 0, CMEA President-Elect
• Scott Hedgecock. CMEA Immediate Past President
• Russ Sperling, NAfME Western Division Immediate Past President and the CMEA Advocacy Representative to the State Council
• Defining the difference between "Arts" and "Arts Education."
• What the California Education Code (EdCode) says about Arts Education.
• The Federal "law of the landn including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA} and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
• The CSU/UC A-G requirements.
Tools that parents can utilize to gain further knowledge about arts education as well as up-to-date information and data to use in discussions with administration (site and district), as well as district and county school boards, was reviewed and included the Arts Ed Data Project, District Arts Strategic Plans, and the LocaJ Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for which all districts are accountable.
The new California Arts Standards (CAS) and the cuJTent work being done on the new state frameworks were also presented, along with numerous suggestions as to how to form an
ongoing advocacy plan in your school, district, and community.
The session concluded with an interactive discussion that included shared ideas, resources and examples of successful arts education advocacy work from the many areas throughout the state that were represented in the room.
Follow-up work with these parents, as well as others who wish to join in, will be ongoing as part ofCMEA's commitment to advoc-acyas one of our four pillars in our mission statement.
CMEA's advocacy work is also shared by our colleagues in the California Art Education Association (CAEA), the California Dance Education Association (CDEA, and the California Educational Theatre Association (CETA} who together with CMEA form the Four Arts Education Organizations Coalition.
CMEA wishes to thank the Country Music Association Foundation for their support in our advocacy work in California.
The CMEAAdvocacy Team:
"As a parent you arc your child's best education advocate because you know their strengths and challenges. You can help advocate for strong music programs and the resources necessary to suppon them. The Parent Advocacy Summit provided information and tools for parents to become better and effective advocates for their child."
Martha Zaragoza-Diaz, CMEA Legislative Advocate
"These parents now possess information and strategics and are now ready and able to communicate with administrators, school board members, and other decision makers, on the importance of strong music programs in all schools."
John Bum, CMEA President Parents from Around the State Who Attended:
"Thank you for hosting the Parent Advocacy Summit. It was very informative and in many cases, eye opening. I recommend it to every parent that has a child, of any age, involved in the visual and performing arts."
"This is our first time at CASMEC. We really enjoyed the four days that we spent at Fresno. We didn't think we would have anything to do, however,just going to various performances on all four days were such a treat for us. Thank you."
CMEA2019AwardsGala
Fridayevening,FebruuylS,2019
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Fresno, California
Openingremarksby CMEA ImrrudialePastPraident Seo/IHedgecrxk: Good Evening, and Welcome.
I am John Burn, CMEA president. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Annual CMEA Gala where outstanding individuals are honored for their work supporting CMEA's vision that all students in California have equal access to high quality music instruction as part of a well·rounded education.
As we begin our awards ceremony,I W11.Ilt to call your attention to the program on your place setting. Award winners will be recognized in this order. As your name is read, please come forward to be recognized. A short narrative will be read about you.rselection, and then an award will be presented to you. Lastly, a CMEA executiveboard member wiUdirect you to the side for a photograph that will appear in the CMEA Magazine.
Presenting awards tonight will be CMEA President-Elect Armalyn De La 0, CMEA Vice President Anne Fennell, CMEA Im• mediate Past President Scott Hedgecock, and myself
Before we start, I would like to thank two people who have worked very hard to make this evening possible: CMEA Secretary Sandr.1 Lewis for bet adept work organizing this year'sCMEA awards program; and CMEA ExecutiveAdministrator Trish Adams for handling all the details regarding the venue, the menu, ticket sales, program printing, on and on. Let's show them both oor appreciation. Please welcome President-Elect De La 0, who will present our first award.
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The CMEA Outstanding Administrator Award honors educators who, as school administn.tors, have contributed powerfully to the support of music education. This year, in recognition of the importance school administnitors have on the success of music in our schools, we recognize two individuals.
Our first recipient of the Oumanding Administrator Award is Marilyn Strongin, principal of Curran Middle School, Bakersfield City School District.
Mrs. Strongin has been a supporter of music education since becoming a school administrator. Her first school principal position was at Voorhies Elementary School where she was able to support the instrumental music teacher in doubling the number of students participating in music in the seven years she was principal. She made it a priority to allow the music t.eacheraccess by pulling srudents our so that they could receive biweekly music lessons. She al.sohelped coordinate moving the elementary concem to their feeder middle schoo~ as they had outgrown their own facilities (also allowing for more collaboration between the elementary and middle school levels).
After moving to Curn.n Middle School, she continued to support music education. She allowed for funding ro purchase new instruments, to expand the music library, as well as supplies for the students. She continues to mm music a focus and wants as many students as possible to be enrolled in a music class. Mrs. Strongin has worked hard to expand access to all students, regardless of their socioeconomic status. She is setting up an after school P.E. class to allow for an extra period in the day for ELD students to be able to take a music elective.
Mrs. Strongin is a great example of how important it is to have a supportive administrator on your team. She has plans to continue the expansion of music for future years at Cwnn Middle School and in the Bakersfield community.
Congratub.tions, Marilyn Strongin.
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Our second recipient of the Outstanding Ad mmamator Award goes to Peggy Lewis, principal ofToler Elementary School in the San Diego Uni fied School Disrrict.
Ms. Lewis recognizeshow instrument srudy im provesattendanee, grades,and skills in this Title 1 school and fullysuppom the music program, mak ing sure that music t1:achershave rooms to teach in, and all necessarysupplies.The school buys the cla.,s boob and will pay to rent instn1menu if the district inventory cannot coverthe demand, and she imple mented a policyover the last four yearswhere every student in grades four through five studies either a band or string insttumcnt. In addition to their two or three evening concerts at school each year, the students have performed in Clairemont community events and also for a concert with Classics For Kids orchestra. Students have also attended concem by that orchcstn..
Ms. Lewis has been an educator for more than thirty years,and has taught at every grade level.Her philosophyis to focus on classroomlearning at all levels.Her school's"Pillarsof Character• program has m&dea realdifferencefor the students on her campus.
Growing up in Southern California, Ms. Lewis attended San Diego State, Chapman Univeniityand USIU. She ch()S(! a careerin education becauseshe wants to make a differencein childn:n'slives.
Congratulations,Peggy Lewis.
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CMEA Section Aw.archarc the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a music educator in any given CMEA Section. It's our pleasure tonight to inttoduce our Section Award recipients. As our honorees come forward, I ask rhar their respective section president or president's dcsignec join them.
The Bay Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goct to Diane Klaczynski.
Diane Klaczynskigraduated cum laude from the University of the Pacific with a bachelor of music degree in music education, and is now in her twenty ninth yearof teaching, the pa.<tnineteen of which have been at Hillview Junior High School in Pittsburg, California, a school that, ac• cording to their website, has a minority enroll ment of ninety-three percent. At Hillview,Ms. Klac:ynskiteaches beginning band, concert band, wind cnsemble,jau band and choir.
She has been the conductor of the Pittsburg Community Band for the past seventeen years and mePimburg Community J= Band for the past ten years;.
She is a member of the National Association for Music Education, California Music Educators Association, the California Band Directors Association, the Northern California Band Association, the Association for Concert Band, and the California Choral Directors Association.
She is currently vice president in charge of dinits and awardsfor Northern California Band Association. Previously,she served on the CMEA Bay Section board as medals chairpc™>n.
In 2008 she was named Teacher of the Yearfor Hillvi.ewJunior High School. In 2015 she was named Pittsburg Unified School District Teacher of the Year.
She oontinues to play clarinet professionally and is a member of the Vallejo Community Band.
Congratulations, Diane Klac:ynski.
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The Capitol Section Outstanding Music Edu· cator Award goes to Brad North.
Mr. North received his bachelor of aru degT« in music from California State University Sacramento in 1981. Mr. North has been teaching music in Northern California for the past thirtyseven yean and is currently the director of bands at Woodcreek High School in R05eville,California.
Mr. North has received numerous awards and honors, including Placer County Teacher of the Year,Northern California Band Association Director of the Year,CMEA Capitol Section Music Educator of the Year and the CMEA President's Award.
Mr. North has served four tetms as president of the CMEA Capitol Section, and has also served many years on the board of the Northern California Band Association.~- North's bands h&vcperformed throughout the United States and Canada, including performances at our nation's capiw, and performances for multiple Califooo gubernatorial inaugurations.
After thirty-seven incredible years, Mr. North is retiring this spring. Congrarubtions, BradNorth.
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The Central Section Outstanding Music Edu· cator Award goes to Jeff Detlefsen.
Jeff Detlefsen is director of bands at Siem Pacilic High School in Hanford. Mr. Detlefsen became the school's first full time music:director in 2011 teaching band and choir. At Siena Pacific, he direcu the ju2 band, marching band, symphonic b:md, color guard, percussion, and conducts the annual musical production. During his tenure at Sierra Pacific, the size of the program has douhled. Prior to his appointment at Siem Pacific High School, Mr. Detlefsen taught band at multiple schools in the Hanford Elementary School District.
Mr. Detlefsen began volunteering with the California Band Directors Association in 2006. lo 2009, he became the headchaperone for the Junior High School Honor Bands. In 2012 he joined the CBDA board as the junior high ho6t. Ar.the conference mowd to S:m Joseand jobs rran1 formed and grew, Mr. Detlefsen served as the CASMEC ensemble host. His current title for CBDA is convention host/CASMEC coordinator and president-elect. Mr. Detlefsen has worked rirdessly to make the return to Fresno a success.
Mr. Dctlefcsen is al.soa founding member and president of the South ValleyWinter Arts Associ arion, a winter guard and percussion circuit serv ing Tulare and Kings Counties.
Mr. Dctlcnen's favorite pasttirne is spending time with his wife, Mary, and his two beautiful daughters, Ellie and Hannah. His youngest daughter, Hannah, has been diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disorder. Mr. Dedefcsen, a strong advocate for his dwghter's health, juggles attending numerous surgeries, therapies, appoint ments and hospital stays with countless marching band rehearsals, trips, and performances, as well as continued service to the profession through CBDA, CASMEC and SVWM.
Congratulations, Jeff Detlefsen.
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The Central Coast Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goea to Jon Nordgren.
Jon Nordgren is the director of bands and the artistic director for Cabrillo Stage at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. Previously he served as director of jazz srud.iesand director of bands at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, an insttu mental music instructor at Las Positas College in Livermore, Monte Vista High School in Danville, and James Logan High School in Union City.
Mr. Nordgren served asjazz repn:scntativc and OCW$lettcreditor for CMEA Bay Section, the newsletter editor for the California Unit of the ln· tematiorul Association of Ju:,; Educators, and asa member of the Dave Brubeck Advisory Board at the University of the Pacific.
Mr. Nordgren currently serves on the board of the Santa CruzJnz Festival and as an artist-inresidence at Pacific GroveMiddle School
Mr. Nordgren is active IIS an adjudicator for band, orchestra,juz, and solo &ensemble fclitivals throughout California and Nevada, and has presented clinics at the CMEA Bay Section con ference, the Santa Cruz JazzFestival and the United States Academic Decathlon.
Mr. Nordgren has been a guest conductor of honor bands and honor jazz bands throughout California, including the Central Coast Section Middle School and High School Honor Band, and in 2017, his composition, Cement Ship, was performed by the Central Coast Section High School Honor Band.
The North Coast Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goes to Mary DeAndrcis.
Mary DeAndreis is a fourth generation native daughter of Humboldt County. She was schooled locally,graduating from Humboldt State University with a degree in violin performance and a multiple-subjects teaching cn:dential. She is an active musician in the area, playing violin and viola in the localorchestras. She teaches elementary music in the Eun:lc.aCity School District, where she tnvels to four eleme.ntaryschools carting her wares. Her days arc filled with singing, dancing and the harmoniom and joyful sound of beginning strings. She feels strongly that quality public music education is a vital and important c::omponent of a child's emotional and educ.ational development. She is proud to be a music teacher and honored to be recognized by her teaching peers a.ndfriends for this award.
The Northern Section Outstanding Music Ed· ucator Award goes to Dean Nordby.
Dean Nordby taught at North Tahoe Middle School for eleven years, and then has taught at North T ahoc High School for the last eighteen years, and, many years prior, was a student at those two schools.
He run£ an outstanding and award-winning program. He takes his music student body to New York City every four years to perform and attend culturally signi£cant events. In addition to his national and statewide travels, Mr. Nordby also supports his local community with concern and performances at neighboring schools, retirement homes and other community venues.
Throughout his career, he has inspired many young musicians to go on to be performers and music educators of the highest caliber. Mr. Nordby has been involved with CMEA-Northern Section throughout his career and hdps to <.-oordinatc our Region V select high school honor band every year.Mr.Nordby hosts our CMEA Northern Section Region V band festival on a rotating basis within our localTahoe Truckee Unified School District. He is also a past president of NCBCDA (Northern California Band and Choir Directors Association).
Mr. Nordby enjo)'$ hunting and fishing and spending time with his wife, Beth, and d1cit two sons, Colton, a sophomore at California Lutheran University playing trombone, and Robert, a junior at North Tahoe and playing trumpet.
Dean Nordby is an outstanding educator who has made it his life's work to elevate music education in the North Tahoe/Truckee area.
The Southeastern Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goes to Phil Mortensen.
Phil Mortensen his completing is thitty•first year in music education and has been wiril the Placentia/Yorba Linda USD since 1989. During that time he worked as the instrumental music director at Valencia.High School for fifteen years before accepting the position of visual and performing arts coordinator in 2004.
In 2010, he was appointed director of orchestras at Yorba Linda High School where he contin• ucs to lead two fine ming ensembles that have been featured at Segerstrom Concert Hall, Musco Center for the Am at Chapman University, the Nixon Library and on the main stage at NAMM.
Mr. Mortensen carne<Ihis A.A. degree from El Camino College, a bachelor of music degree in music education from Long Beach State, and a master of arts degree in educational administration from CSU Fullerton.
Mr. Mortensen is a past president of the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) and served on their board in several important capacities for many years.
Mr. Mortensen setved CMEA as music supervisor represenrarive on the CMEA Council of Representatives, and is a charter board member of the CMEA Southeastern Section havingserved as vice president.
Mr. Mortensen continues to serve the youth of Southern California through his work on the board of directors for the Pacific Crest Youth Ans Organization and is also a scoutmaster in Chino Hills. Both of his sons m! Eagle Scouts, an ac• complishment of which he and his wife Amyare extremely proud.
Mr.Mortensen continues his work in his profession by judging field events and festivals, presenting at conferences, conducting district honor groups and providing annual mock interviews for the future music educators coming out of CSU Fullerton.
The Southern Border Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goes to Pauline Crooks.
Pauline Crooks ls the visual and performing arts coordinator for the San Di~o County Office of Education and has been a music educator for twenty-five ycan. Pauline received a bachelor's degree in mu1ic education from Ohio State University and began teaching K-12 music in Ohio in both public and private schools in rural, suburban, and urban settings. This diverse experience helped shape her view o( the challenges that exist in all educational settings.
Upon moving to Califomia, she became aNational Board Certified Teacher in early and middle childhood music and renewed this cenificatlon in 2014. Pauline earned a master's degree in teaching from Nation~! University,and a master's degree in educational administration from Concordia University.
She has served as ~n adjudicator, historian, secretary, pn:sident-clc.:t, president and past president for the California Music Educators Association's Southern Border Section a11dhas served as an adjudicator, committee member and vice president for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Associatio,1.
Pauline has presented at many conferences throughout her career, including Arts Empower, BOOST, CASMEC, CMEA, CMEA-SBS, Courageous Creativity, NAMM, and SCSBOA.
She was honored to take the Bernardo Heights Middle School Advanced Band to perform at the 2007 CMEA conference and to be the inaugural winner of the CMEA Middle School Music Specialist of the Year aw:ud in 2015.
Pauline is a member of the An~Opporrunity Leadership Team and is the leader of Arts Empower San Diego, a collective impact initiative working to improve and suppon arts education for each of the more than 500,000 srudents in San Diego Coonty.
The Southwestern Section Outstanding Music Educator Award goes to Maria Kubota.
After graduating from the University of Southcm California, earning both bachelor's and mas· tet's degrees in music education, Maria Kubota started her career in 1999 a.t Clifton Middle School in the Monrovia Unified School District. There, Ms. Kubota doubled participation in instrumental music, where she taught marching band, choir, general music, strings, and established a district-wide pull-out elementary band program.
After Clifton Middk School, she taught: band, orchestra, percussion ensemble, marching band, pit orchestra and AP music theory at Polytechnic School in Pa.sadcna,and Oaks Middle School in the Ontario/Montclair School District.
Currently, Ms. Kubota teaches at Goddard and Sandburg Middle Schools, as well as in the elementary music program, in the Glendora Unified School DistTict. She works to build connections with the school community by performing "Giv• ing Bach• concerts with the special needs classes, and celebrating staff birthdays with a travelling "Happy Birthday Brigade.• Her ensembles have consistently earned superior ratings at festivals.
Ms. Kubota appreciates the guidance of her colleagues and mentors, including Richard Meyer, Jack Taylor, Rosemarie Krovoz.a,Janine Riv<:irc, and Cheryl Scheidcmantle among others, many of whom she works with each summer at Bellis Music Camp.
Ms. Kubota has presented clinic sessions at CMEA and SCSBOA conferences on using analogies in rehearsal, and demonstrating more than forty wa~ to teach rhythm.
Ms. Kubota is in her twentieth year of teach• ing. She teaches her srudents the va.lueof listen• ing to music, to each other, and to making room in the verbal and musical conversations for those whose voices are the quietest, Whether she is teaching a casual music srudent, or one who is going on to an elite music conservatory, she passionately prep= her students to be participants, consumers, and lifelong supporters o( music.
Congratulations, MariaKubota.
Anne Fennell.·
The CMEA Elementary Music Specialist Award honors excellencein elementary music instruction. The Elementary Music Specialist Award goes to Diego Zarate-White.
Mr.Diego Zarate-White earned both a bache• !or's in music education and a master's in conduct ing from Fresno State. He teaches K-third grade classroom music, founh grade recordcis, elementary concert band, jau band, choir and strings, as well as middle school concert band, jazz band, choir, and strings in the Madera Unified School District.
Mr. Zarate-White's highlights so far in his teaching career include having one of his students selected as a member of the CBDA middle school concert band at CASMEC, which was especially significant because the student does not receive private lessons, and in fact, students from Madera. rarely audition for all-state honor band. Another highlight is to have two of his middle school SIU• dents selected for the FMCMEA honor jazz band.
Music made the difference in Mr. Zarate• White's lifegrowing up and he believes the California Music Educator Association WllS the force behind that difference.
The CMEA Middle School Mu1ic Specialist Award honors excellence in middle school music imttuction. The Middle School Miuic Specialist Award goes to Jose L. Vargas II.
Jose Vargas earned his bachelor of music from La Sierra University, and his master's in conduct· ing from Fresno State. Cum:ndy he is the assis· tant director at Clovis North Educational Center where he teaches three junior high school bands, the high school concat band, and mists with the marching band and the wind ensemble.
Mr. Vargas is thankful that through his ensembles, participation in CMEA festivals, he and his students have grown, and continue to grow, musically andprof~sionally.
Mr. Vargas serves the profession through FMCMEA and CMEA. He has been on the board of FMCMEAas vice president, president, and past president. In this role, he has been given the opportunity to work with locw.collcagu~ and nationally known conductors.
One of Mr. Vargas' best momentS of his career was getting to teach and help prepare rhe Clovis North Wind Ensemble for their Midwest Band and Occhestra Clinic performance in December 2017. It gave him immense pride to see and hear what they accomplished in their monument-.J performance.
Congratulations, Jose Vargas.
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This year, CMEA is pleased to award Janet Thorgrimson with the General Music Educator Award.
Janet Thorgrimson is in her thirty-fifth year of teaching for the San Juan Unified School District as a general music teacher, K sixth grade. Twin Lakes Elementary and Northridge Elementary have bttn her rwo schools since 1992. She received her bachelor's from CSU Sacramento, and her master's in music education with Kodaly emphasis from Holy Names College. She studied at the Intclllll.tional Orfflnstirute in Salzburg, and for twenty yean she has served on the teaching staff of the Rkhards Institute of Education and Research-Education Through Music.
Ms. Thorgrimson has been a member of CMEA since she was a student at CSU Sacramento, where she was the Capitol Section collegiate representative.
Early on, and still today, CMEA is Ms. Thor grimson's link to meeting and powerfully c0Uaboro1tingwith other music educators. She attended every CMEA conference her first twenty yc11rsof teaching and still arttnds CASMEC every year. Equally important to lu:r is the role CM~:A has played in advocacy. She believes m1,1sic~-Juc,1tion would have been cut many times without the in tclligc:nteffort of our CMEA leaders.
The rock 'n' roll ,how that her fifth and sixth gnders put on has become a huge tradition and joyful way for her school to bring the community together.
Her fourth through sixth before-school choirs have more than ninety kids at one school and about sixty in the other school, a Title I school. For many of those kids, choir is the reason they come to school. Ms.1borgrimson's greatest joy is seeing her students discover the joy and beauty that comes when making music with others.
Ms.1borg,-imson believes in the importance of general music for all elementary students. It layi; the foundation for future music education choices the srudents will make when older. It builds foundational musical skills and more importantly, buikb the love of music through making music a regular part of every child's life. That's why she lovuherjob.
Congrarulations, Janet Thorgrimson.
John Bum:
The CMEA Richard L. Levin Orchestra Educator Award honors excellence in orchesrra education and performance. This year, CMEA is pleased to award John Biller with the Outstanding Orchestra Educator Aw:ud,
Mr. Biller has taught at Stockdale High School in the Kern High School District for thirty-eight years.
John Biller earned his bachelors of music from California State Univenity, Long Beach, got his teaching credential through California State University, Bakersfield, and is currently pursuing a master's of music education through Boston University.
Mr. Biller'sbackground was primarily winds ,md percussion prior to 1991. CMEA conferences provided Mr. Biller with resources increasing his knowledge and skills in working with string stu· dents. Also the dozens of CMEA adjudicators and their comments who have adjudicated his orchesr= have been of great encouragement and help over the ycats.
One of his highlights ii his orchestra's performance in the Christopher Cohen Concert Hall at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At this concert his orchestra performed, then later joined with Cal Poly's strings for an arnuing performance of FantaSia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Another highlight is his orchestr&'sperformance in New York's Central Park and Carnegie Hall as one of the showcase ensembles in the New YorlcInternational Music Festival, which was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience for his Symphony Orchestra both in performance and the opponunity to listen to other world-class ensembles.
The CMEA Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett Choral Educator Award honors excellence in choral education and performance. This year, CMEA ii pleased to award John M. Sorber with the choral educator award.
Mr. Sorber earn<:dis A.A. from Reedley Col• lege in 1993, his B.A. from Fresno Pacific Univer• sity in 1996, and his M.A. in choral conducting from Fn:sno State University in 2009.
From 1996-2002, he taught middle school and elementary choir in Dinuba. From 2002-2016, he was the choral teacher at El Diamante High School in Visalia, CA, and from 2016 to present he has been then vocal and choral music professor at the College of the Sequoias.
CMEA has been a vita.Iaspect of his growth and has greatly contributed to his joy and success as a choral educator. First, CMEA has provided many quality festiva.lexperiences in a positive and productive environment that have helped hone his teaching skills. Next, he has grown musically and professionally through attending and performing at state conferences. He has also benefited from the articles and information in the CMEA maga· une. Finally, he has been given the opportunity to develop his collegial leadership skills through participation in local TKMEA and central CMEA section boards. He was able to create the annual TKMEA Honor Choir and he is now adjudicating the fcsriva.lsthat have taught him so much throughout his career.
His concert choir was invited to sing in the 2007 CMEA Convention and he commissioned Bradley Nelson to compose a new piece for their performance. He will never forget conducting the piece with the composer in the audien<:e,and the look on his students faces as they performed. Every student was vulner:tble and authentic while creating art and beauty. It was truly srunning. An· other highlight is conducting the TKMEA Honor Choir that he had created years before. Motivating students and changing lives is his joy and being able to do that for students beyond his own classroom walls was humbling and life-changing. He loves using mu.sicto help build a better hu· manity and he feels CMEA has been guiding him along that journey for twenry•three yurs. Congratulations, John Sorber.
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The Paul A. Shaghoian Jazz Educator Award honors excellence in jazz education and performance. This year, CMEA is pleased to award Greg Brown with the jazz eaucator awmi.
Greg Brown earned his A.A. degree from Chabot College in Hayward in 1981, his bache· lor's from CSU Hayward in 1985, and his master's from CSU Hayward in 1992.
He has been teaching instrumental music at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek since 1997. He has taught classes at Chabot College, was the band director at El Camino High School in South San Francisco from 1994-1997, and before that, he taught at nine other schools.
At Northgate Mr.Brown teaches two jazz bands, three concert bands and the string orchcs· tra. This is Mr. Brown's thiny·third year teaching music.
lt was while he was a student a Chabot College and helped run the CMEA Bay Section winter conference that he was inspired to become a music educator.
He served on the Bay Section Boa.rdas area rcprcscnrative and as jaxz representative. fu ja-;i:11: representative he re-initiated and maintained jau solo/combo festivals.His ensembles participate and he regularly adjudicates Bay Section jazz, band, orchestra and solo and ensemble fustiva.ls.
At Nonhgate High &hool he has hosted a CMEAJa-zzEast Festival for several years. He has been awarded the Gil Freitas and the Outstanding Jau Educator awards by Bay Section. He serves as a mentor as pan of the CMEA State Mcntorship Program.
For the past twenty years, Mr. Brown has held the Nonhgate concert band and orchestra spring concerts at the Lesher Center for the Arts, and since 2005, the Northgate Spring Jazz concerts have been held at Yoshi's Night Club (which has sold out for more than six years). Hosting concerts in professional venues creates a feeling of pride and excitement in his community and inspires his students to reach for their deepest musicianship.
For the past five years in a row, the Northgatc Jazz Ensemble has won the Monterey Jazz Festiva.l'sNext Generation Jazz Festiva.l,which is the most prestigious honor a high school jazz band can cam in California.
Congratulations, Greg Brown.
The CMEA Byron Holt/Don ~r Band Educator Award honors excellence in instrumen• tal education and perfonnance. This year, CMEA is pleased to award Leonard Ingrande with the band educaror award.
Leonard lngrandc has had twenty-£ve years o( teaching experience, with the last fifteen years at Central High School, dire<:tingstring orchestras, concert bands, jau bands, marching bands, and wind ensembles. He has also taught AP music theory.
He states: "Throughout my career, CMEA has helped me validate the importance of music education in my district, the importance of teaching music as an art, and the importance of music teachers continuing to be artists. CMEA has provided me with opportunities for musical growth, imponant connections to assist in my job, and has allowed other colleagues to come into my life to help provide leadership and support to both my• self and my students.•
He received his bachelor of music degree in music education and piano from the University of Southern California and proceeded to earn a mas• ter's of music in conducting from the same univer• sity. He received diploma.~from Loma Linda University, the Cleveland Jns1itute of Music and the Juilliard &hool of Music extension division.
He has received several accolades, including the John Philip Sousa Foundation Legion of Horwr Award for maintaining band programs of high musical quality for the past twenty years. Another of his proudest accomplishments was directing his wind ensemble students on the historic stage of Carnegie Hall in New York City where they performed very challenging pieces and they received a standing ovation after an exemplary performance. He feels very blessed to be their director.
The CMEAJohn Swain College/University E<lucator Award honors excellence in music cdu• cation at the coUege/university levd. This year, CMEA is pleucd to award Or. Alexwdu Koops with the college educator award.
Dr. Alexander Koops has taught for seventeen years at Azusa Pacific University, with five years of teaching at middle schools and high schools be• fore that. He earned his doctorate of musical arts at the University of Southern Ca.Ufomiain music education, with an academic minor in theory imd elective fields in horn performance and orchestral ~-onducting.He has also earned a master's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in conducting anda bachelor of arts in music educarion from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
CMEA has provided a community of music teachers that have become his dear friends, as well as challenged and inspired him to bcwme the be5t teacher he can be, and to consider new and diverse ways to reach his students through music. Lan year he hosted a music composition workshop cosponsored by CMEA and APU featuring U.K. film composer Bill Connor. He was able w have a numberofCMEA music teachers and their stu· dents participate in the worluhop, which resulted in a large concert with approximately 250 students from rwo middle schools, one high school, his community music school. and three ensembles from the univenity. The concert featured original student compositions on the first half, and the second half wasa collaborative large-scale pjece for all the participants together that the guest composer Bill Connor put together, all hued on musical ideastha.tthe students had improvised and developed in the work5hop and some additional rehearsals. Dr. Koops stated that the concert was "epic andinspiring."
Congratulations, Dr. Alexander Koops.
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The CMEA Music Industry Leadership Award honors an organization/individual for outstanding leadership in music education. This year, CMEA is pl.easedto award Maccia Stearns.
MarciaSteams is :1.member of several organizations including: NAMM, Reta.ii Print Music Dealers Association, Music Teachers Associarion of California, Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, and has exhibited at all CASMECs and ycan of CMEA's prior conventions. She has been on the boards of several community music organiiations (Camerata Singers, Ememblc Monterey, Advigory Board to the An Carecn Academy at Monterey High). Marcia is also a chorister, hand bell ringer and plays 50mc piano, guitar and a tune on the oboe.
Mnrcia Stearns has sponson:d annual workshops for music teachers; she stays informed on legislation concerning music education .1dvocates at LCAP meetings and provides discounts to music educators and fund raising opportunities for music programs. She attends the Centrnl Coast Section general meetings and she and her staff go above and beyond doing research and special or• den.
Marcia caters to busy teachers by personally delivering orders to schools and by advertising school concerts as well as community youth music events. Marcia as been a mentor to high school seniors, provided internships, hires music student,, spoken to classes on subjeers concerning music in· dustry, entrepreneunhip, women as businesspersons and has gone on fidd trips with classes.
In the mid 2000s, when the largest school district on the Peninsula vns having financial difficulties and eliminated all dementary music programs, as well as cutting back secondary music, a group of parents, teachers, district administrator, and Marcia Stearns created a committee to find funds and implement a plan to reinstitute musi.c and other arts into our schools. There are not many private business owners who would attend countless hours of committee meetings with the belief that all children should have npportunitiC1i and exposun: to music education.
Marcia is dedicated to music education, child development, the culture and depth oflcaming that music provides. She consistently provides support and encouragement to music educatot5. Congratulations, Marcia Steams.
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The CMEA Illuminating Cultun: Award seeks to recognize professionals and programs that integrate the personal and historical cultural perspectives of their students and community through music. It further seeks to recognize:programs that use methods that connect student talent while honoring culture and ethnic heritage. The Illuminating Culture award got$ to Dr. Diana Hollinger.
Dr. Hollinger earned a bachelor of arts in music education and a bachdor of music in composition, with a minor in English ac California State Uni• vcrsity, Fullerton, and also received a master's o( musk in conducting at the University of North Tex:!$with noted conductor Eugene Corporon :md studied composition with the well-known composer Dr. Cindy McTce. From Arizona State Univer~ity,~he received her doctorate of musical arts in music education with a cognate in conducting. She has spent several yea.rsteaching musical education to students of aUages, with the past sixteen years at San Jost State University.
The person nominating Dr. Hollinger for this award had this to say about her. "Dr. Hollinger has developed outreach programs that not only serve SJSU music students, but the greater community asa whole. She supports several music education projects serving underprivileged schools in our area,andshe continues to foster professional relationships and learning opporruniries through musicians and educawrs of diverse cultural, ethnic, and musical backgrounds. Dianais verypassionate about social justice and gender equality in music education. She strongly believes in casting a light on thClieissues with her students so that they may be better equipped to advocate for them when they themselves arc out in the field."
Dr. Hollinger has always been student-cen• tered. She reshaped the music teacher training at SJSU, which is now more cultunlly and musically diverse and inclusive, connects research to practice, teaches students to be professionally involved, to question the no.rms,and kad in a music profession. The generations of teachers who arc graduating from SJSU are thoughtful, cultunlly responsive, and musicaUydriven. She also inspired a fonncr high school drum major who grew up to become her colleague at SJSU. She states that both of these experiences have taught her that the students will grow beyond her own limitations. Regarding these &tudents,she states: •our future is bright.•
The Dr. Randi Carp Choral Music Education Scholarship is awarded to a graduating high school senior who has elected to pursue music education as their career, and who also embodies the spirit of Randi Carp through their energy and determination to be an educator and their willingness to give back to the profession through service leadership.
The Dr. Randi Carp Choral Music Education Scholarship goes to Abigail Sorber.
Abigail has not only participated in the El Diamante clloir since freshman yea,, but she has been in chamber for the last three years, as weUas participating in the El Diamante orchestr.1program until this year (she has still been playing in the community orchestra with Micha.elTackett). She has studied voice, viola, and piano with private teachers as well. She is a fantastic musician, and both this year and last received very high Honor choir audition scores. Currently she has just finished her collcge applications and now is preparing for her auditions. She is also excited to be a part of the 2019 CMENCCDA/SCVA Choral Leadership Academy.
Justin Witt, her director at El Di:unante High School, said this abour her: "At the end oflut year, Abigail approached me and asked if she might be able to join the beginning soprano/alto ensemble at our school and participate as a sn1dent director. Thus far, she has taught the class two pieces and conducted them in our concen {Bel Piacere by G.F. Handel and Velvet Shoes by Randall Thompson). Abigail has prepared all the lessons for pieces, executed the lessons, and conducted the pieces in our concens. Both pieces have turned out wonderful, and she hascreated a great rdarionship with the srudenrs in the class, who really respect her and value her advice. In addition to this, I havt her lead warm-ups on a regular basis. We always talk afrcr class about her teaching and the student work, and she is always eager and willing to accept any help she can receive. It is a wonderful experience working with her."
Some of Abigail's most anticipated events this coming semester a.rebeing able to anend Choral Leadership Academy as well as the ACDA National Convention. Both opportunities have her incredibly excited and will help to prepare her with her future goal of becoming a choral music educator. She plans on anending San J~ State University or CSU Fullerton ro accomplish this goal. When asked why she wants to become a choral musk educator, she said: "Choral music has done so much more for mt than I could have ever imagined and getting to sing such fantastic, diverse choral literature has brought unimaginable joy into my life. It has helped me get through tough challenges and develop as a human being. I want to be a positive influence in the lives of the students I teach someday, and bring them the same feeling of passion and joy that music has givco me." Congrarulations, Abigal Sorber.
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The CMEA Collegiate Chapter of the Year (COTY) Award is presented to a NAfME Collegiate Chapter in California that has presented a successfulmusic program, professional develop· ment project, recruitment project, or service project. The COTY is awarded to the Collegiate Chapter from California State University, Northridge.
CSUN travelled to CASMEC in February of last year, where their students attended many sessions and socialized with other students, aswell asmusic educators. This chapter alsoreceived the Southern California MEA College Chapter of the Year Award for their service and professional development the previous year.
In April of 2018,CSUN hosted the Second Annual Southern California Intercollegiate Music Education Conference. College music education majors from several local schools, including UCLA, Cal State Fullerton and Azusa Pacific Universiiy, attended. They hosted four different sessions throughout the day, with different renowned clinicians, such as Dr. Travis J.Cross, professor of music at UCLA, and Dr. Lawrence Stoffel, director of bands at CSUN, as well as other music educators from local schools.This conference readsmusic students by providing profC$sional development oppommities to localundergraduates and educators alike. Byutilizing faculty members from other institutions, as well aslocaleduc.tors, CSUN's Chapter shows "outside of the boxnthinking and forwards the name of CMEA/NAfMEby encouraging future music educators to continue andremain in the state organizations. This chapter will again host this conference in the spring of 2019.
CSUNalsovolunteered to 11S$1Stthe CMEASouthwest Section conference ar Azusa Pacific University by having students help with the sign-in process and with each presentation. Not only were students volunteering, bur several attended the conference as well.
These events ate representative of activities that support CSUN's NAfMEChapter's mission in areas of professional development, service to local college music educJltion students, and con· nectingwith other NAfMECollegiate Chapters. CSUN has proven to be committed to providing these experiences to its members and local collegiate students and has solidified the CMEA brand with collegiates in the region.
Congratulations, California State University, Northridge.
ljoincd the City Choir ofWashington in 2013 when my wife and I moved to Maryland. It is one of the several large community choirs in the greater Washington, D. C., area.
When our choir board heard about the devastating fires in California last November,and how much of Paradise High School was burned to the ground with the total loss of the music library,we felt moved to start a program to raise money for the choir.
At our January 6, 2019, "12th Night" concert, the audience was asked to make a donation to the Paradise Choir. Over the last month, City Choir members, and other members in the community, also con rributed.
I am pleased to represent the City Choir of Washington Board in presenting checks and gift cards totaling S299S.
Receiving thi$, and delivering it to the Paradise High School Choir, is their former director, Sam Gronseth.
The CMEA Hall of Fame Award honors a lifetime of extraordinary service and commitment to music education in California. This is CMEA's highest honor. This year, CMEA is ple11Sedto present rwo very special award winners.
The first recipient is Judi Scharnburg. She retired from Fortuna Union Schools after nineteen years of teaching, but has taught for forty-two years total in music education throughout several states. She taught kindergarten through sixth g,ade classroom music, with twelve classes a day.This included three bands, three choir&,the annual fifth grade musical and an advanced ensemble program to help build entrepreneurial and musical skills. Before teaching, she earned her bachelor of science degree in music from the State University of New York. at Potsdam and her master of arts in teaching at Harvard University.
She has been a member ofNAfME since col legc in each state whctc she has taught. She hu attended several conferences since corning to Cali· fomia, including Redding, Chico, and the annual state conferences. She has ~ken hundreds of concepts from workshops, observations, and conversations with colleagues to improve her practice. During her four yem as a section president, she has become motivated to be a member of the state membership and mentonlup committees, and participate in the formation of the urban/rural schools committee.
She scares:"I have had seven srudent teachers and three BTSA teachers. Each rime was an op· portunity to reflect deeply on my own practice and also see the gifts of each mentce. My written evaluations had co meet the requiremenrs of the CSTP, but also a separate, pnvare commentary on their music instruction. The annual fifth gtade musical was based on U.S. history. I rewrote dialogue and music to include original sources. Atting skills and period-style dancing included every student. Tea,;hers created lc,sons to deepen students' knowledge of the era and parents and students made cosrumes and built sctS. Students' rcAectionsstated they never believed they could do something this hard. Teachers reported a burst of student confidence and camaraderie after each show.
Congratularions,Judy Scharnberg.
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Our second lttipient of the Hall of Fame Award is Jeri Webb.
Jeri Webb retired after thricy four years of scrv· ice in music education, the last rwenty eight in Poway Unified with thirteen yea.rsat Black Mountain Middle School and coding with fifteen ycars 1.t Wcstview High School She receiveda bachelor in music from San Diego State University and her master's from American Band Col• lcgc.
One of her proudest accomplishments was that the vision she had in opening Westvic:wHigh School was realized and successful.Her vision was unique and hued on the philosophy of music:education, which centered on individual musicianship and n,1e,1gngcdcommunity.There were multiplenight winter and cnd-of-rhe•year shows that sold out. The band would peiform entertaining half time shows that the crowds loved and cheered and after the crowds had cl~d, the Ir.indwould march their competitive shows. Even with all of these shows, she still sought to create a highly successful,yearly required adjudicated solo and ensemble festival for all students. The level of musicianship that was achieved allowed the students to perform exceptional works.
She may have retired, but she remains heavily involved in music making. She is the assistant di rector of the San Diego Street Choir and a wpporter of Voicesof Our City. Both groups are serving the homeless of San Diego. The San Diego Street Choir meets at least once a week and has performed over thirty six times since its inception two years ago. Some members stay in the park, the streeu, in the Rescue Mission or low C05thousing near our rehearsal facility,First Pres byterian Church in downtown San Diego. She has learned through these concerts that it is not the precision or beauty of a performance that creates an emotional impact m the audience.The performers sing out of tune, with no blend, and little to no phrasing. She states: •They do not sing well, but even though they arc downtrodden, when they perform, for a moment, they are seen and they a.re heatd. It is empathy that creates the connection. We a.reconnected and we arc family."
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We have a special c-0nclusionto tonight's event. Tonight we honor two distinguished CMEA members with a pin to commemorate fifty years of membership in CMEA. Our first recipient is Lyle Srubson.
Lyle Stubson earned his bachelor of am and master of arts at the University of Wyoming. He worlccd in music education for a toral of thrityseven years, with the last thirty-four years t;,.kingplace in San Luis Obispo, California.
He has been a member of Southern California Vocal Association, South em California School Band and Orchestra Association, California Band Directors Association, and California Music Educators Association for many years. He is a CBDA past president and served on the board for several years. Through CBDA, he received the Distinguished Service Award and the Dave Goedecke Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also served on the CMEA board for two years, was responsible for starting the Channel Section, and is an inductee in the CMEA Hall of Fame.
Lyle Stubson is known for greeting young band directors at the annual conference and making them feel welcome in California music educ;ation.
Mr.Stubson oontinues to serve CMEA as the adminism.tor ofrhe Don Schmeer Memorial Scholarship Fund. He has served in this capacity for the California Music Education Foundation for many y=, administering funds to music camps for student scholarships. Congr.itulations, Lyle Snibson.
The second recipient of the fifty--yar pin is Dr.Lawrence Sutherland.
Dr. Lawrence R. Sutherland,Jr., is professor of music and director of bands emeritus, California State University, Fresno
Dr. Lawrence Sutherland served as director of bands and prof«sor of music at California State Univenity, Fresno, from 1969 until 2006. His du· ties at CSUF included conducting the wind ensemble and teaching classes in conducting, 5COCestudy, and rrombonc/euphonium performance, a. well as directing the award winningJau Band A. He conducted the university orchestra in the spring of 2007.
Dr. Sutherland served as conductor of the UCLA Wind Ensemble during the 2012-13 academic year.
The CSU Fresno Wind Ensembk, under his din:ction, was selected to perform for every major music conference in the U.S. and several inrcma• tionally. and made its Carnegie Hall debut in 1996. In addition to these dutiC$,he has served as music director and conductor of the Tulare County Symphony Orcheatra and as interim music director and associate conductor of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Sutherland has served as guest conductor and adjudicator throughout the United States, Alaska, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, England, the Philippines, Australia, Korell, Singa• pore, China and Japan.
In 1999, Dr. Sutherland was voted the Outstanding California Music Educator, and also received the Byron Hoyt Award &om the California Music Educators Association. The California Band Directors Association presented Dr. Sutherland with their Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2000. In 2011 he was given the Aubrey Penman Retired Music Educator Award. The California Alliance for Jazz inducted Dr. Sutherland into their Hall of Fame in 2011. He has becn a member of the American Bandmasters Association sjnce 1976.
Dr. Sutherland is the only person to have directed all three California Music Educators all state instrumental honor groups-orchestra, symphonic band and jazz band. He h~ conducted the SCSBOA All~Southern High School Band twice a.ndhas becn a four-time conductor of the CBDA All· State Band. He has conducted the California Community College North• ern Section Honor Band four rimes and the Southern Section twice. Dr. Sutherland was the chief conductor of the California State University Select Wind Orchestn, performing in San Luis Obispo, for the World Association of Symph-0nic Bands and Ensembles in July ofl 999.
Dr. Sutherland serves as an adjudicator for World Projects Productions in England, Australia, and the U.S., and is currently artistic director for World Projecrs' Jnremational Band and Orchestn Fe1,tivaJ.sat Carnegie Hall in New York and Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Tonight has been a spectacular celebration oflivcs. Let's congratulate all of our CMEA awardrecipients.
This concludes the CMEA Awards Gala.
Please continue to visit the CMEF section of our website to learn of ongoing opportunities to provide scholarship support in a variety of areas.
We hope to see you at the all-conference social later this evening. Good night.
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