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Navigating Emotional Risk in the Music Classroom
What is emotional risk and how does it affect our teaching? Learning how students perceive and respond to emotional risk can inform much of what we (and our students) do in our classrooms. In this session, we will discuss concepts and strategies to scaffold emotional risk, helping all students feel safe and welcome to fully…
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Teaching Musicality to Orchestra Students
Students can learn to be proactive and perform more musically if taught to recognize “composer clues.” The session will identify many clues and offer suggestions for implementation during rehearsal. Some of these clues are: basic dynamic shapes, following the line, principals of additive phrasing and accelerated motion, chromatic notes as text painting, seeing the simplified…
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Mapping the Route: Strategic Frameworks for Arts Pathway Validation
This Music Program Leaders colloquium explores the development and implementation of local and state arts pathway recognition systems designed to elevate the visibility and value of arts education. The session highlights strategies for aligning district initiatives with state-level recognition frameworks to ensure arts students receive meaningful college and career pathway acknowledgment. Participants will gain insight…
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Investigating Innovators of the Past to Meet Curricular Goals of the Present
Collegiate NAfME members from Pacific University and their instructor, Kendra Kay Friar, share their personal connections to four curricular innovators from history: Nathaniel Clark Smith, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Belle Ortiz, and Lois Choksy. The presenters will connect their in-progress professional identity development to the pioneering work of historical role models. Repertoire and pedagogical suggestions pioneered…
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Jacksonville Music Education History Symposium
University of North Florida 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, United StatesSymposium on the History Music Education June 4-6, 2026 Jacksonville, Florida University of North Florida The Symposium on the History of Music Education is being organized and sponsored by the History Special Research Interest Group of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and the University of North Florida. The Symposium Planning Committee is planning several…
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2026 NAfME National Leadership Assembly
Reston, VAPresident Cecil Adderley invites NAfME national and state leadership to participate in the 2026 National Leadership Assembly. Please contact Kim Henry at kimh@nafme.org with any questions. This event is by invitation only.
