OMEA Spotlight

Jane and Jim Howell OMEA Co- Executive Directors

We want to shine the “spotlight” on a couple of OMEA Board Members. Jennifer Mohr Colett has accomplished so many things in her tenure as the Advocacy Chair that at our spring board meeting Dave Becker commented that “she is really doing the work of the music supervisor at the department of education when there was such a role.” Last year alone, she completed the OSMPS: Oregon Schools & Music Programs survey and published it in a web based format called Airtable which is available on our website for everyone to see and use. This project required a team of volunteers who called every school in the state to find out things like: what kind of music programs the schools offered students, the FTE of the music teachers and if the music teachers were certified. She also worked with most of the district music supervisors to develop the New Program Standards for Music in Oregon Schools which is available on OMEA’s home page. These things could not have happened without Jennifer’s ability to bring people together and her facilitation skills. Lastly, she was asked by the Idaho Music Educators and by NAfME to make advocacy presentations at the Idaho Music Education Conference and the National Leadership Conference. Her energy and passion for music advocacy is unsurpassed and she never thinks that anything is too difficult. We all owe her a great deal of respect and support for the time and energy that she gives OMEA so freely.

We also want to recognize Tom Muller our former president, for everything that he accomplished during his presidency

OMEA Journal

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Fall Submissions: Deadline 9/1, Scheduled Mailing Date-10/30

Spring Submissions : Deadline 3/1, Scheduled Mailing Date-4/30

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JournalGuidelines.pdf

Online OMEA Journals: oregonmusic.org

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The Oregon Music Education Association (OMEA) is a federated state Association of the National Association for Music Education(NAfME), a voluntary, non-proft organization representing all phases of music education in schools, college, universities, and teacher education institutions. Active NAfME/OMEA membership is open to all persons engaged in music teaching or other music educational work.

Membership: musiced.nafme.org/join and over his 25+ years of being on the OMEA board. We can’t really go into all of those details because it would take up more space than we have in the journal. We do want to bring to your attention that Tom is the first past president to find and select candidates before the publication of the fall journal in years! We appreciate Tom getting our election process back in line with our policies and procedures. We also want to congratulate Tom on his Northwest NAfME presidential nomination! We recognize why the Northwest nominating committee would select him as a nominee and wish him luck in joining the ranks of other past Oregon NAfME presidents like Debbie Glaze.

Non-member subscriptions: $30 per year; or $10 per issue. Bulk rate postage paid.

As always, thank you for allowing us to work with all of you! Please send us information about the people you know that we all need to know about. Every one of you makes a difference in the quality of music education that we offer to Oregon students. Thanks for everything you do to support happy and healthy people.