What a great time to be celebrating music education! It’s the fourth year of NAfME’s reimagined National Conference, and we have so much in store for music educators—from pre-service teachers to full-time teachers to administrators. But this is also the perfect time to network with peers and make life-time connections to benefit your career—not to mention all the exciting FUN events to recharge and inspire you! Check out these unique opportunities to meet, and perform, with these influential musicians and educators. AND earn a Certificate of Participation valued at 17 professional development contact hours.
One Exciting Kickoff
Educator and Entertainer Graham Hepburn (Co-Creator, Chief Creative Officer, and Quaver Character with NAfME corporate memberQuaver Music) will kick off the conference on Thursday evening during the opening ceremony.
Concerts and Performance Opportunities
Come jam with legendary bass player Chuck Rainey at the Thursday night Jam Session and Happy Hour! Chuck Rainey has performed with King Curtis, Sam Cooke, Etta James, the original Coasters, Jackie Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Al Kooper, The Supremes, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and Quincy Jones—and toured with The Beatles as part of the King Curtis All Stars! As music education is a vital part of his playing career and experience, his textbooks and educational videos are tools used by many educators in the curricula of their local institutions.
You don’t want to miss Friday night’s performance by the Lone Star Wind Orchestra! The Lone Star Wind Orchestra strives to embody “Music Changing Lives” to audiences and as a role model for young students, encouraging the pursuit of music involvement as a life-long passion.
Male Directors’ Chorus: This unforgettable performance experience will be led by Dr. Jim Henry of the 2016 Stand for Music award-winner Crossroads Quartet. Rehearse and perform three exciting close harmony arrangements and sing alongside Dallas’ award-winning choral ensemble Vocal Majority on the finale of the Saturday Night Concert. Click here to register.
Band Directors’ Academy: Back by popular demand, this two-part session led by Dr. Peter Boonshaft will allow band directors of all levels to develop their skills and understanding while playing in an ensemble. Topics will include: rehearsal technique, effective conducting, new repertoire, standard gems of the literature, warm-ups that work and how to develop ensemble concepts, all with the goal of creating rehearsals that are even more productive, efficient and effective. Click here to register.
Standards and Assessment Workshop: How can music teachers assess their students’ learning of the 2014 Music Standards and/or their local curricula? How can the supervision and evaluation of music teachers recognize the unique attributes of quality music education and support teachers’ efforts to improve their teaching? How can these systems be aligned to better serve students? This workshop will address these questions. Click here to register.
Students with Behavioral and Emotional Special Needs Focus Event: As a follow-up to our sell-out success last year, the NAfME Task Force on Students with Special Needs will be presenting a day-long focus on students who struggle with behaviors and emotions. We have engaged several rock stars of our professional as well as a few up and coming music educators with classroom tested strategies to meet the needs of these, and all, students. Click here to register.
John Feierabend’s teaching has provided thousands of teachers and their students with the materials and techniques to help build community through music by evoking enthusiastic participation of all people. To that end his approach strives for all people to become tuneful, beatful and artful through research based and developmentally appropriate pedagogies while promoting the use of quality literature.
Jimmie Abbington, currently Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, GA, is an amazingly versatile musician/scholar who is committed to the study and practice of worship music from the African American heritage. He is equally at home playing the piano, Hammond organ, or pipe organ;Photo: Event Coverage Nashville | eventcoveragenashville.comdirecting a choir; directing a conference; or composing, writing, and editing books and music on aspects of African American church music.
MusicEd Talks with Warren Zanes (“Soundbreaking
in the Classroom, a PBS series about Recorded Music”) and Jim Cavanaugh (“The Science of Strings in the Classroom”).
Sessions, Sessions, Sessions for teachers at every grade level and teaching area!
Join us November 10-13 in Grapevine, TX—bring a music educator friend!—and raise the level of your leadership in your industry with these invaluable professional development opportunities. Day rates are also available.
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Christopher M. Johnson, Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy, is currently the Chair of the Music Education and Music Therapy Department and Director of the Music Research Institute at the University of Kansas. Johnson earned his Ph.D. from the Florida State University.
Since his arrival at The University of Kansas, Johnson has taught courses in Instrumental Conducting, Teaching Instrumental Music, Managing Behaviors in the Music Environment, Psychology and Acoustics of Music, and Research Methods in Music Education and Music Therapy. Johnson served two terms as the editor of the International Journal of Music Education: Research, the research publication of the International Society for Music Education. He is currently serving his second term on the National Association for Music Educations Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education, and one earlier term as the Chair for the MENC Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education. Johnson also served as the Chair for the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education.
Johnson’s research interests include applied research in music education, and basic research in all aspects of the psychology of music. He has published articles in many journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, the International Journal of Music Education, the Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Band Research, Contributions to Music Education, and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, among others. Johnson has also been an active member and contributor to the Research Seminar of the International Society for Music Education and World Alliance for Arts Education.
Johnson received a university teaching award – the Ned N. Fleming Award for Excellence in Teaching and received the recognition for Graduate Teaching Achievement from the Center for Teaching Excellence. Johnson was also awarded a lecturing & research award as a J. William Fulbright Scholar and recently received the Ella Scoble Opperman Citation for Distinguished Achievement from the Florida State University College of Music.
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Come jam with legendary bass player Chuck Rainey at the Thursday night Jam Session and Happy Hour! Chuck Rainey has performed with King Curtis, Sam Cooke, Etta James, the original Coasters, Jackie Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Al Kooper, The Supremes, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and Quincy Jones—and toured with The Beatles as part of the King Curtis All Stars! As music education is a vital part of his playing career and experience, his textbooks and educational videos are tools used by many educators in the curricula of their local institutions.
