This session is about maintaining your program from year-to-year and recruiting for future success with practical applications in the high school choral classroom.
Seattle WA.Kurt McKee
Interest Session
Creating Music in Alaska
Creative Classroom Management: Stop Disciplining and Start Teaching!
Managing a classroom is about communicating clear and consistent expectations. With fewer resources, less support from parents and administrators, and more pressure on recruiting, the success of music programs depends on classroom management more than ever. Through creative lesson planning, a high level of student responsibility, and an insistence on excellence everyday, the classroom will […]
Seattle WA.Lauren E. Whitham
Collaboration in the Ensemble Arts: Working and Playing Well with Others
Ensemble directors are masters of collaboration within the rehearsal room, but how about outside this environment? One of the keys to a successful program in the twenty-first century is the ability to collaborate with other groups and organizations. This session outlines the four keys to collaboration: (1) Identifying/Creating a Unifying Goal; (2) Inciting a common […]
Seattle WA.Tim Sharp
Chasing Phrases! Moving Away from the Note:) Chasing Paradigm in your Choral Rehearsal
This interest session offers some creative rehearsal strategies based on the concept that composers often leave “musical clues” in their scores for us to discover and help bring the music to life. These clues—found in text-settings, melodic shapes, harmonies, rhythms, and even the printed expressive markings (dynamics, articulations etc.)—can be the sources that inform and […]
Seattle WA.Graeme Langager
Choir is … The Meanings of the Choral Experience Grades 7-12
While music making is essential to the choral experience, the meanings found by choral students in grades 7–12 are far from confined to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through a session using the responses of 200 choral students, the presenter will discuss the dominant themes of meaning found by these singers. Utilizing the students’ own […]
Fort Wayne IN.Andrea Ramsey
