2011 Balanced Mind Conference
Morning Session Descriptions
(Current as of September 12, 2011)
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (Main Museum Cap: 50 )
Morning and Afternoon Gallery Tours
This session will include an educator-led tour of the museum's current exhibitions: Francisco de Goya’s Los Caprichos, Rimer Cardillo’s Jornadas De La Memori, Exploraciones Contemporaneas, a group exhibition of contemporary Latin American artists including Vic Muniz, and Dario Escobar.
Participants will explore the art on view and have the opportunity to engage in hands on experiences that includes simple print-making/rubbing and sketching activities in the galleries.
Erica Warner, Herricks School District/MYO
Elementary/Middle School School Choral Reading Session
Amphitheater
This is a reading session of both elementary and middle school new chorus literature. Music supplied by J.W. Pepper and sons.
Pamela Kohler
Print-Making Inspired by Francisco Goya and Rimer Cardillo
Chardonnay Room
This session will lead participants in a hands on print making workshop inspired by the exhibitions of Francisco Goya and Rimer Cardillo at the Nassau County Museum of Art.
Joseph Pergola, NESCO
Music Education in Crisis: Practical Strategies in an Era of Budget Cuts
Room 2052 (Downstairs)
This workshop will lead participants through an explanation of the current fiscal crisis and it's effect on arts education. Practical strategies for dealing with program cuts and shrinking budgets will be examined. The importance of "value analysis", prioritization, communication and a new kind of advocacy will be explained. a question and answer period will be included.
Ken Kimmelman, Imagery Film, Ltd.
Aesthetic Realism & The Literary Cinema of Ken Kimmelman
Ballroom 1
The noted Emmy Award-winning filmmaker will screen two of his films and speak about the relation of aesthetics and ethics. Recommended for composition students of all ages.”
David Kramer, Miller Place Schools
Middle School General Music: Think Out of the Box and Connect Pt. 1
Ballroom 2
This returning clinician will share a sixth grade general music curriculum that evolves from the question, "What is Music?" The lessons use music education as a catalyst for building awareness that specific classical styles exist within the music history continuum while also showing music as being reflective of the human experience.
George Ober, William Floyd Schools
Listen and Learn: Performance in the Secondary Classroom
Ballroom 5
This workshop will demonstrate how secondary classroom music teachers can develop performance based activities which foster a greater understanding of the basic elements of music and enhance listening skills. Specifically designed for today's secondary general music student. Teachers will learn strategies for meeting both state and national standards for music education by including performance content in their classroom.
Reynard Burns, Dowling College/Reynard Burns Publishing Inc.
Orchestra Reading Session-Music of Black and Minority Composers
Ballroom 6
The music of African American and other minority composers has long been overlooked. This reading session will provide examples of some of these great works that rival the music of their European counterparts.
Napoleon Revels-Bey
Al Andalusia, to Dizzy - Jazz/Afro-Cuban/World History
Forum 1
RHYTHM KINGS. “Al Andalusia, to Dizzy” The award-winning program traces the historical and multicultural culture of the “Latin ting” of Jazz music and dance from Al Andalusia, Moorish Spain, the Caribbean Isles, New Orleans and the New York City dance halls. Workshops have been hosted by schools and libraries throughout New York City and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Krista Velez
Music and Movement for Students with Autism
Forum 3
Through movement activities, students with autism and other developmental disabilities can develop beat competency, as well as an understanding of rhythm, style, musical structure, and phrasing. For students with limited verbal communication, movement can be used as a way to express emotion and to demonstrate musical skills. In this session, participants will learn developmentally appropriate movement and dance lessons, including preparatory activities, to guide the musical development of their students with special needs.
Elise May, Expressive Elocution
Empowering Speech for the Classroom and the Stage
Forum 4
Empowering Speech for the Classroom and the Stage Using theater voice and speech techniques this workshop is for teachers who want to increase the clarity, vocal vibrancy and expressive qualities of their own voices as well as their students. Exercises for breathing, relaxation, vocal energizing, oral and aural awareness, physical messaging, focus and articulation will be included. Dress in comfortable clothing and bring a towel/yoga mat.
Peter Freeman, Mineola Schools
The “In’s and Out’s” of Hosting a NYSSMA Festival
Forum 5
This session is for those hosting a NYSSMA Solo Festival. It is based on a practitioner viewpoint and the information is experienced-based with tips on what works well and what doesn't.
David Dolgon, MakeMusic, Inc.
Finale for the Music Educator
Forum 6 (Boardroom)
An overview of select components of Finale music notation software. Included will be a sample of some of the 800 worksheets, exercise wizard, tutorials, on-screen video instructions, music scanning, creation of SmartMusic files from Finale files, creation of mp3 audio files from Finale files and more.
Karen DeMauro
Presentation Skills for Teachers and Students
Forum 7
The goal of this workshop is to provide teachers with hands-on interactive exercises that provide students with the tools and skills that contribute to effective live presentation. In a media- centric world, students have to present everything from science projects to original poetry. Fortunately, live presentation involves many skills that are fairly easy to teach and learn. In this session teachers learn how to help students’ delivery through phrasing, vocal variety, sectioning, and audience analysis, while honoring personal comfort zones. The course is highly interactive and includes games, simulations, and practice techniques that encourage embodied learning. And the materials packet provides several “ready-to-go” mini-lessons.
Lee Knight
Books that Build Character
Forum 8
Join singer/songwriter Lee Knight for a musically diverse workshop teaching positive character traits through song, movement and theatre. Teachers of students in pre-k through six will go home with a CD full of songs and ideas to bring to their classrooms. Lee will also introduce her full-length elementary school musical which teaches empathy and has the potential to involve students in service learning and community service.
Martha Boonshaft, Garden City Schools
SmartMusic in Your Band, Choir and Orchestra Program
Forum 9
SmartMusic 2012 includes new vocal features: sight singing methods with assessment, choral warm-ups and support for Finale created accompaniments. The SmartMusic library continues to grow with 35 method books including Hal Leonard’s Essential Techniques and 2,800 concert titles for band, orchestra and jazz ensemble. This clinic will demonstrate how this repertoire can be assigned for home practice through SmartMusic’s online capabilities.
Phil Preddice, Three Village Schools (retired), MYO
Secondary Orchestra Reading Session
Lighthouse A
New music for Orchestra will be distributed and performed in an ensemble setting. Music supplied by J.W. Pepper and Sons.
Greg Jankowski, ON IT BEAMWORK Fit and Active Learning Institute™
Making Movement Matter
Lighthouse B
Experience firsthand a 21st Century Solution in Making Movement Matter™ Join Greg A. Jankowski, CPT Creator/Author of the ON IT BEAMWORK Strength System™ with this lecture designed to empower educators with innovative “active based learning protocols” to support educational reform efforts. • BEAMWORK PE™ featuring Real Time Games™ and Real Time Strength™ • Movement Based Stats Tracking with the Balance Stats Tracker System™ • Enhance PE offerings with functional dynamic strength and balance progressions • Active learning with KIDS ON IT™ BACE Curriculum
Michael Flamhaft
Administration from the Podium
Lighthouse C
This presentation is designed for conductors, who, although may be talented and capable musicians, waste a great deal of time and get little done at a rehearsal because of things they say and do. We examine 30 specific items and respond to particular instances introduced from the floor.
Ron Fox
Jazz Ensemble Demonstration
Adelphi
A select group of musicians/educators teaching in the Long Island school system will perform various charts for jazz ensemble in a "concert style" setting. Music from all levels, elementary through high school will be performed. Writing styles, brass ranges, rhythm section parts, solo/soli sections, etc. will be discussed to help teachers select appropriate literature for their jazz groups. A handout listing all selections with ordering information and room to make notes will be distributed to all attendees. Music provided by J.W. Pepper.
StikFigures Percussion Ensemble
Percussion Accessorism: “Transforming Demonic ‘Toys’ into Musical Instruments”
Hofstra
This session is designed for music educators to help teach percussion accessory techniques to percussionists in grades four through twelve. It includes hands-on demonstrations of percussion instruments including snare drum, bass drum, crash cymbals, suspended cymbals, tambourine, triangle and other “toys” you might encounter. Proper mallet choices are discussed for various types of settings and colors. Also included are “tricks of the trade”: substitutions and tactics in dealing with percussion equipment, proper set-up and performance issues.
Joseph Rutkowski, Great Neck Schools
“Play For Your Life!" [Chamber Music from Mozart to Led Zepplin, a Reading Session for All Instrumentalists]
LIU Room
A goal of music education is to help instrumental students find opportunities to make music throughout their LIVES. Musicians who play in orchestras often target the date of their retirement. Musicians who play chamber music usually play for the rest of their lives. This clinic describes how to introduce chamber music to your students, giving them the chance to become LIFE-long participants in music. Audience members are STRONGLY encouraged to bring their instruments.
Julia Healy, Hofstra University
Make an Original Pop-Up Book (in No Time Flat)
Molloy Room
Student literacy comes alive when stories are turned into original pop-up books. Learn how to motivate your students to invent characters, write individual stories and make a 3-page book. Participants will learn how to make basic "elevens," stair steps, sliders and "Z" strips, as well as being shown how to make professional-looking covers. All materials will be provided.
Clinician?
Secondary Band Reading Session
Skylight Room
New music for concert band will be read in an ensemble setting. Music supplied by J.W. Pepper and Sons.
2011 Balanced Mind Conference
Afternoon Session Descriptions
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (Main Museum Cap: 50 )
Morning and Afternoon Gallery Tours
This session will include an educator-led tour of the museum's current exhibitions: Francisco de Goya’s Los Caprichos, Rimer Cardillo’s Jornadas De La Memori, Exploraciones Contemporaneas, a group exhibition of contemporary Latin American artists including Vic Muniz, and Dario Escobar.
Participants will explore the art on view and have the opportunity to engage in hands on experiences that includes simple print-making/rubbing and sketching activities in the galleries.
Erica Warner, Herricks School District/MYO
Elementary/Middle School School Choral Reading Session
Amphitheater
This is a reading session of both elementary and middle school new chorus literature. Music supplied by J.W. Pepper and sons.
Sharon Pesenti, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Schools
Using Sight Singing, Boomwhackers and Barred Instruments to Teach "Elementary Harmony."
Chardonnay
Sharon Pesenti, Vocal/General Music Teacher from the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park UFSD, will present strategies to teach "Elementary" harmony in the general music classroom. Using sight singing, boomwhackers and barred instruments, participants will learn techniques to teach basic understanding of scales, intervals, chords and types of harmony. These lessons are also designed to prepare students for learning how to sight sing for NYSSMA and for training students to sing in harmony for chorus.
Joseph Pergola, NESCO
Recruitment and Retention
Room 2052 (Downstairs)
This workshop is based on years of research regarding recruitment and retention policies and procedures necessary for building successful performing ensembles. The culmination of this research was the publication of the the book titled "Recruitment and Retention". The popularity of this publication resulted in numerous request to train administrators and teachers in proven procedures to improve recruitment and maintain good retention.
Shoshana Hershkowitz, Stony Brook University
Creating a More Effective Choral Rehearsal
Ballroom 1
The goal of this project is to provide choral music educators the tools to make their rehearsals efficient and effective. This session was first presented at a staff development in the Farmingdale school district in 2011. Materials that will be a part of this session will include a handout with choral warmups, a repertoire search resource guide, as well as some rehearsal and vocal technique suggestions. Additionally, choral music octavos will be used at the session, so that we can apply the ideas presented to choral literature.
David Kramer, Miller Place Schools
Middle School General Music: Think Out of the Box and Connect Pt. 2
Ballroom 2
The second session will share units of study for students in seventh grade through the use of non-classical styles including rock, jazz, Broadway, and hip-hop. After completing these courses students are aware of how music has been influenced by societal/technological factors and the effect music can have as a catalyst for change of society.
Nancy Duncan, CoDanceCo., Inc.
May I Have This Dance Please? Being the Change You Want to Be - Teaching and Learning in Partnership
Ballroom 5
"May I have this dance?" Being the Change you want to be - Teaching and Learning in Partnership. Participants will learn the basics of two to three ballroom dances through Pierre Dulaine's Method for teaching American Ballroom Theater's model arts-in-education program Dancing Classrooms. The workshop will be taught by an educational team from Dancing Classrooms Long Island. The arts learning will be followed by an exploration of teaching methods experienced and classroom applications. Criteria: curiosity, fun, imagination - no dancing experience required. Open to anyone.
Reynard Burns, Dowling College/Reynard Burns Publishing Inc.
Improvisation for string players, nothing to fear.
Ballroom 6
String players can improvise at any level from beginner to experienced to make music swing. This session will give participants a hands-on approach geared for strings.
Joyce Raimondo, Imagine That! Art Education
Maximize Creative Thinking
Forum 1
Based on techniques from her Art Explorer books, author Joyce Raimondo will demonstrate how to discuss modern art and design projects to maximize creative thinking and diversity of ideas. She will show teachers how to ask open-ended questions to develop in-depth interpretation and analysis of artworks. Teachers will be given ideas for highly creative projects -based on modern art -they can easily implement in the classroom. This presentation will serve as a forum for discussion and brainstorming how to enliven your classroom with MAXIMUM CREATIVITY.
Patricia Shih
Big Ideas! Teaching Social Issues through Music
Forum 3
Patricia Shih, an award-winning singer/songwriter and veteran arts educator with twenty-five years experience, speaks, sings, teaches and demonstrates her "Big Ideas!" concerts and workshops for elementary and middle-school audiences and teachers. Valuable resources and handouts will be available.
Elizabeth Levy
Creating Your Own Story
Forum 4
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Robert Wottawa, Longwood Schools
Finding the Time for Musicianship
Forum 5
Tired of teaching to the concert? This presentation will discuss how a teacher of a performance group can find the time to accomplish their goals. I will discuss how to break down a lesson in order to allow student success in music performance, music theory, and musical technique. In this session I will share the rubrics and handbooks used in our Longwood Central School District for the music performance groups.
Margaret DeLima
Autobiographical Papier Mache – Max 15 persons
Forum 6
Explore your understanding of life events with artist Margaret DeLima. Share your experience in a collaborative discovery of how we see ourselves. Learn to tell your story in the act of making a three-dimensional self-portrait in the versatile medium of papier-mâché. The process of building the figure is easy and the results can be transformative.
This workshop can be modified to meet the needs of elementary, middle school or high school level participants. It can be presented within an art lesson or as a complement to content specific work.
Debra Degenhardt, Crystal Heart Productions
Inclusion Kids LOVE Literacy Through Music
Forum 7
Come participate in fun original activities which focus on the literacy concepts taught in the classroom while refining musical perception! Games based on language acquisition and phonemic awareness prove to serve as learning strategies which are also extremely entertaining.
Lee Knight, Knightlee LLC
Pop/Broadway/R&B Vocal Workshop
Forum 8
This workshop will give you the tools to help your students cross over into pop, modern Broadway or R&B singing. You can volunteer to help demonstrate exercises to alleviate vocal tension, tongue coordination and how to get that contemporary sound without belting!
Marcia Rackow, Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, or, the Sensuous as Intellectual
Forum 9
Artist, educator, and Aesthetic Realism Consultant, Marcia Rackow will look at these three Venetian masters from the beautiful exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and will show how the opposites of the sensuous and the intellectual, surface and depth took on a new dimension in their art and can answer the most urgent questions of women and men today! “All beauty,” stated Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, “is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Educators will learn how, in its purpose and technique, art is a guide to how every person wants to see because it is just to the aesthetic structure of the world.
Laura Alaimo, Herricks Schools (retired), MYO
Elementary Orchestra Reading Session
Lighthouse A
New music for Orchestra will be distributed and performed in an ensemble setting. Music supplied by J.W. Pepper and Sons.
Robin Golub, Great Neck Schools
Using Garage Band in Your Classroom
Lighthouse B
This workshop will teach users the basic components of GarageBand, and how it can be used as part of the curriculum to enhance teaching. Participants will create, edit and share their own narrated audio or musical creations and create podcasts.
Dafna Soltes-Stein, Kinesthetic Intelligence Plus, Inc.
Tell Me A Story, Dance Me a Dance
Lighthouse C
This session engages students and their teachers in using the art of storytelling and creative dance-making together. How are elements of a good literacy lesson integrated into a good dance lesson? Base the dance lesson on good literature and provide students with the tools necessary to express themselves in response to the stories heard, making movement stories of their own. Workshop participants will view a slide show from a second grade dance residency in the North Shore School District integrating poetry and stories about friendship and dance making. We will read a storybook about friendship and discuss its dance-ability. Be prepared to experience a brief model lesson of dance-making together.
Kevin Bayen/Tim Hogan/David Minelli
NYSSMA Adjudication Refresher Seminar
Adelphi
This session will define and update standards and procedures for “Certified Regular Adjudicators”. DVD recordings of adjudications will be used and generate discussion for currently certified adjudicators in all areas of performance.
Participants will be give credit for attending a “Refresher Session” by NYSSMA and the Adjudication Festival Committee.
StikFigures Percussion Ensemble
Using Percussion in the General Music Classroom
Hofstra
This clinic will be hands-on and deal with the many uses of percussion instruments within a general music classroom. Topics will include drum circle, making instruments, basic information on mallet instruments and discussion on resources for the educator.
Dr. Pamela Levy, Great Neck Schools
Vocal Accompaniment
LIU Room
A presentation on vocal accompanying for choir directors and other interested musicians will addresss the challenges of the choral director in a high school setting. Choral music, operatic arias, art songs, pop music, and musical theatre will be discussed in relation to the role of the pianist. This presentation will include live performance.
Julia Healy – Hofstra University
Dynamic Group Projects
Molloy
Group art projects are a wonderful way to create a class culture that can collaborate and work together. This hands-on workshop will take participants through the steps of making three group projects, suitable for ages K-12 (The Exquisite Corpse--based on Surrealism, a Fool-Proof Mixed Media Mural and a Quilt Project applicable to many subject areas).