BALANCED MIND SEMINARS

SESSION I

TILLES ATRIUM

Holly Adams

Melodrama Lives!: Heroes, villains and victims.

Heroes, villains and victims. . . good and evil. . . and an awakening social responsibility . . . these were the undercurrents of the most popular form of English and American theatre of Victorian times. In this workshop we will meet the characters and then be introduced to the physical performance elements of Melodrama. We conclude by exploring scenes from "Above the Clouds" and "Dracula".

TILLES NORTH FORK HALL

Scott Stickley, Herricks UFSD

Orchestra Reading Session

Selections representing a wide range of music for elementary and secondary orchestra will be used for this session. Music provided by JW Pepper & Sons.

TILLES PATRONS LOUNGE

Neal Bellon, Massapequa UFSD

Jazz Ensemble Reading Session and Literature Review

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.

TILLES RECITAL HALL

Shoshana Hershkowitz, Commack School District

Secondary Choral Reading Session

Selections representing a wide range of music for secondary chorus will be used for this session. Music provided by JW Pepper & Sons.

HILLWOOD PIONEER ROOM

Anthony Romeo III, Seaford UFSD and Members of StikFigures Percussion Ensemble

Making Your Percussion Section Musical: Auxilliary Techniques for the Mallet Section

Designed for music educators to help teach specific techniques to percussionists in grades 4 – 12, this clinic includes hands-on demonstrations of percussion instruments including snare drum, bass drum, cymbals (crash and suspended), tambourine, triangle and other instruments. Proper mallet choices are discussed for various types of settings and colors. Also included are substitutions and tactics in dealing with percussion equipment, proper set-up and performance issues.

HILLWOOD STUDY LOUNGE

Frank Parisi, Lawrence UFSD

Creating Frescos

Students will learn the basic skills necessary to create Frescos in the style of the ancient Romans and Greeks. Students will pour slabs of plaster into plastic box picture frames. After curing for an hour or more, they will remove the solid blocks of plaster from the frames.

The resulting surface is as smooth as glass. On "test" pieces of plaster they will experiment with different types of paint, including: dry tempera, water colors, and acrylic paints. If plaster is too dry, students can spray the surface with water, or paint directly on the dry surface. Depending on the type of paint available, students may find that some paints work best on dry plaster slabs, while others work best on damp slabs. Students can test their color choices on smaller pieces of plaster before applying the paint to the finished piece. Images of ancient frescos will be available depicting scenes of mythology, and everyday life, or students can represent scenes of contemporary life, or fantasy.

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Jerry Custer, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Collaboration: The Possible Dream

Once upon a time -- and not that long ago -- real composers wrote real music for real young people to perform. Masters like Hindemith, Orff, Kodaly, Britten, and Copland all produced substantive pieces intentionally conceived with student performers in mind. Today the school music scene is different. Or is it? For the last year, Michigan-based conductor and composer Jerry Custer has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with elementary and high-school choral musicians in the Herricks Schools, writing new works specifically for them to premiere (and most recently, setting texts created by the students themselves). In this session, Jerry and some of his colleagues, young and old, will talk about the challenges and benefits of working collaboratively with a live composer in real time.

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Dr. Amanda Grumet, Literacy Support Systems Inc.

Making Meaning through Integrated Arts

In her experiential workshops, Dr. Amanda Grumet uses movement, music, theatre, and visual arts to create captivating and exciting classroom experiences that empower teachers. Her multiple-modality techniques enable her participants to open up to multicultural experience. Dr. Grumet grounds her activities with pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, making her workshops both entertaining and substantive.

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David Kramer, Miller Place School District

Middle School General Music: Think Out of the Box and Connect – Part 1 – Grade 6

This workshop will lay out a Sixth Grade General Music curricula that evolve from the question "What is Music?". Participants will see a variety of lessons that 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.

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Craig Knapp, Rocky Point UFSD

30 Strategies for an Efficient and Effective Elementary Choral Rehearsal

The objective of this workshop is to demonstrate effective choral warm-ups and effective strategies used to motivate elementary singers. Warm-ups utilized will include an emphasis on movement, solfege, sight singing, rounds, canons, part singing and range building as integral components of the warm-up process. The warm-ups used will develop proper breath support, phrasing, diction, ear training and musicianship. The exercises used transition nicely into appropriate children’s choral literature. The implementation of technology will be discussed as part of the warm-up process. Also covered in this workshop are 30 strategies, or "Do’s and Do Not’s," for an efficient and effective rehearsal.

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Erica Whitman Davis

Musical Form and Literacy

This workshop will focus on active listening by becoming part of a musical story, with an emphasis on musical form and literacy using listening maps. Participants will perform "scenes" from famous program music including The Nutcracker Suite, by Tchaikovsky, "The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" from Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and "The Carnival of the Animals."

This workshop is truly a "discovery" experience. Students will reach a deeper understanding of the music they hear by responding creatively to musical motives and themes. As one "character" in the piece, each participant will feel how his/her part relates to the other sections and the whole. Activities will be suitable for Pre-K through Grade four.

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Joe Pergola, William Floyd UFSD (Ret.)

Building Connectivity in ELA. Why and How

The growing need for academic intervention and its' effect on music instruction clearly shows a need to add and strengthen literacy connections in a district's music curriculum.

Educational research indicates a high correlation between music and ELA achievement. This seminar will focus on methods and means to incorporate reading and writing as an integrated element with minimum impact on instructional time and without making music instruction solely interdisciplinary.

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Dafna Soltes Stein,"Kinesthetic Intelligence Plus,Inc.

Building Community and Trust using Dance Improvisation

Learn the basics of group dance improvisation using pedestrian movement such as walking, bending, turning and reaching while also using speed, size, level and direction to create visual and kinesthetic complexity. Discover how group dance improvisation can function as a powerful tool to teach healthy social skills naturally embedded in the process: acceptance, willingness to lead, willingness to follow, willingness to step aside, step in, step away, sense when to keep going and when to stop. This type of dance education supports character education goals while addressing state standards in both dance and theatre. It is an excellent arts integration program for middle and high school. In this workshop participants will be lead through a dance improvisation activity with the goal of experiencing the potential for nurturing a sense of community and trust. Participants will have the opportunity to design and practice a brief guided improvisation.

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Dr. David Fryling, Hofstra University

Raising Expectations or, How NOT to Conduct Your Fears

Too often as conductors we can find ourselves getting in the way of the very music we’re trying to make. We become co-dependents to our ensemble’s bad habits, through gestures and rehearsal techniques that subconsciously support these same bad habits.

This session will attempt to define a variety of common "conductor co-dependent behaviors,” and provide solutions to them in order to raise the expectations within your rehearsal. Only by expecting more–and doing and saying much less–can we as conductor-teachers truly bring out the potential of very group with which we are entrusted.

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Dr. Jennifer Miceli, Long Island Univ/C.W. Post College

Measurement and Evaluation in Music K-12

This session provides rating scales, rubrics, and checklists that are designed to measure student achievement in music. Evaluation instruments are aligned with MENC’s Achievement Standards.

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Dr. John J. Gallagher

Longwood Central School District/NYSSMA/NYSAAE

Advocacy - Practical Tools for Promoting Your Arts Program

The focus is to introduce public relations, media relations, advocacy and publicity techniques to the arts educator. It will guide them toward successful relationships with various publics and will establish a foundation in writing for today’s media outlets. Further, it will enable them to take advantage of media opportunities to promote concerts, festivals, award ceremonies, art exhibits and the like.

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Christopher Agostino, Agostino Arts

Transformations! A World of Stories

Before there were TVs, video games or computers, people told stories. Whether to explain the world around them, teach lessons about the animals that shared it or just to entertain, folktales are a part of our universal human culture. The speaker will present traditional folktales and original stories illustrated by his amazing face-painting based on the mask and makeup arts from the same world cultures that tell such tales. Storytelling and mask arts, two of the world&squot;s oldest art forms, combine to present a window into other cultures and the fundamental underlying human imagination that unites us all.

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Krista Velez, University of Delaware

Everyone has the Potential: Guiding the Musical Development of Children with Autism

This session will focus on fostering the musical development of children on the autism spectrum. Participants will learn basic facts and characteristics of this disability, develop an understanding of music learning, and be provided with methods and activities to teach music to students with autism. Participants will view relevant videos and participate in music activities.

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Zehava Gal, Westminster Choir College

It’s All About Focus – Mind, Body and Voice

World-renown vocalist and pedagogue, Zehava Gal will demonstrate and help participants discover the qualities and colors of voice and language.

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Prof. Patrick Aievola, C.W. Post College

Using Flash to Create Interactive Websites

This workshop will demonstrate how to create an Interactive Website using Flash. Attendees will work on their own workstations and be shown step-by-step how to create interactive Websites.

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Prof. Charles Conover, C.W. Post College

Using Adobe Illustrator to Create Expressive Typography

This workshop will demonstrate how to create a series of typographical treatments using Adobe Illustrator. Attendees will work on their own workstations and be shown step by step how to create attractive type designs. With only 14 workstations, participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops if they have the software.

SESSION I SCULPTURE BUILDING STUDIO B

Prof. Dan Christoffel, Prof. Steven Ceraso, C.W. Post College

Techniques in Figurative Sculpture and Moldmaking

In this hands on workshop teachers will learn techniques and approaches to figurative sculpture that can be used in the class room and personal development. Approaches to technical aspects of figurative work including mold making, armature building, waste molds, flexible rubber molds and casting materials.

SESSION II

HILLWOOD CINEMA

Joyce Raimondo, Founding Director/Author

Imagine That!

During an interactive slide show, Joyce Raimondo, author of Imagine That! Activities and Adventures in Surrealism, demonstrates how to ask questions to help students describe and interpret Surrealist art. Rather than emphasize information, she models how to maximize student participation through open-ended discussion. She provides teachers with ideas for projects inspired by the Surrealists' innovative techniques designed to maximize creativity and spark imagination.

A former educator at The Museum of Modern Art and artist, Raimondo is author of the award winning Art Explorer series and MoMA’s Art Safari books and online program. She is an expert in museum education and visual literacy.

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Patti Dunham

Aesthetic Education Through Music

Tilles Centers School Partnership workshop offers a hands-on demonstration for those interested in learning about the practice and philosophy of aesthetic education. Based upon Lincoln Center Institutes pioneering work, aesthetic education is a process-based program that develops perceptual abilities of students in visual and performing arts. It builds critical thinking, supports inquiry-based and student centered learning. Patti Dunham, Tilles Center music teaching artist, will lead experiential activities to demonstrate how the approach develops a greater understanding of the creative process, insights into how artists make choices and how these understandings relate to other aspects of life. Aesthetic education is a process in which anyone can participate and learn regardless of prior skills, talent, or knowledge. Tilles Centers School Partnership program currently works in twenty-three public and private schools in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

TILLES ATRIUM

Curtis Tripoli, Seaford School District

Teaching Digital Filmmaking

Interested in starting a digital filmmaking class in your high school? This session will take you through every aspect of how this class has been taught for the past five years at Seaford High School. Learn everything from what equipment is used to class exercises, projects, film critiques, and class management including problems and solutions. You will have a chance to watch sample class projects, take home hand-outs and discuss the best way to create a class in your own district.

TILLES FOUNDERS ROOM

Lee Knight&squot;s Books Alive

Books of the World Concert

Picture students on stage in costumes singing, dancing and acting out their favorite stories to fully orchestrated original music from six different countries. There are no rehearsals - they come up on stage, the music starts and they’re off!

The goal of this session is to inspire reading, to perform for an audience which experiencing rhythms and musical styles of other countries. Participants will walk away from this session with an increased social and cultural awareness through literature, music and dance, perhaps even inspired to write their own books, poems or songs.

TILLES NORTH FORK HALL

Dr. James McRoy, C.W. Post College/Long Island University

Band Reading Session

Selections representing a wide range of music for elementary and secondary band will be used for this session. Music provided by JW Pepper & Sons.

TILLES PATRONS LOUNGE

Zehava Gal, Westminster Choir College

Vocal Masterclass

World-renown opera singer and coach, Zehava Gal will work with singers from the Herricks High School Chamber Choir in a masterclass setting to improved their vocal production and interpretive abilities.

HILLWOOD PIONEER ROOM

Holly Adams

Arts at the Core of Learning: Bridging the Achievement Gap

This workshop will look at specifics of how artists and art educators can participate in a meaningful gap analysis of a curriculum area. Also explored will be how to apply the schema of their own artistic backgrounds to create class plans for difficult topics that utilize multiple intelligences, provide multiple "entry points" to the concept, illuminate content meaning, and add value to the knowledge itself.

TILLES RECITAL HALL

Craig Knapp, Rocky Point UFSD

Elementary Choral Reading Session

The objective of this workshop is to present newly published music and also look at standard repertoire from a number of diverse cultures that are suitable for young voices. Elementary treble chorus music from the current NYSSMA Manual will also be explored, as well as techniques in preparing your students for a successful NYSSMA Major Organization experience.

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Jerry Custer, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Words and Music (and Music and Words)

By its very nature, choral music is texted music. It tells a story, illuminates a character, and follows a narrative arc, marrying the impact of words and sounds to magnify the impact of each artform. The nexus between textual cues presented by the author and the response of the composer is an essential element in the creation of well-crafted choral music. Yet choral conductors and English teachers seldom leverage the real expertise that each offers the other. In this session, conductor and composer Jerry Custer examines how poets like W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and John Donne have influenced the writing of choral composers, presenting strategies classroom teachers in both disciplines can employ to unlock greater levels of meaning and insight for their students.

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Joe Pergola, William Floyd UFSD (Ret.)

Designing a Music Department Improvement Plan

The primary role of administrative leadership is to create a shared vision of excellence. Achieving that vision requires a well designed and practical plan. Such a plan should identify areas in need of improvement and a method for progress. Enhancing the quality of any organization requires a detailed diagram toward excellence and a highly developed process of assessment.

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Susan Ruth Cohen, Friends of the Arts

Pieces of a Dream: The Collage Project for Literacy

Participants will have the opportunity to create a group collage based on the theme "Portraying Dreams: Literacy through the Arts.” The session will culminate in a reflective discussion of the completed collage. These activities are planned for ELL students, and may be adjusted for appropriate grade level and/or use in the mainstream classroom.

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David Kramer, Miller Place School District

Middle School General Music: Think Out of the Box and Connect – Part 2 – Grade 7

This session will continue to share ideas introduced in session 1 including units of study that use non-classical styles including rock, jazz, Broadway, and hip-hop. Participants will become aware of how music has been influenced by societal and technological factors and the effect music can have as a catalyst for change of society.

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Steven Schrier, Suffolk Center on the Holocaust, Diversity & Human Understanding, Inc.

Embracing Our Differences

Participants will learn about "Embracing Our Differences”, an art competition and exhibit that explores how diversity enriches our lives and builds values that respect differences. Learn how participation in the competition or a visit to the exhibit can support student understanding: of the meaning of symbolism in communicating ideas; of the importance of celebrating differences and achieving unity; of the value of rejecting prejudice in achieving their own freedom.

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Arlene Crandall, ES BOCES/SETRC

Teaching Students with Special Needs

This workshop will provide participants with knowledge and skills to support students with special education needs. Discussion will include various disabilities and accommodations needed in special area classes. Specific learning environments and activities can present specific challenges to special area teachers. Participants will leave with strategies to meet these challenges.

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Dafna Soltes Stein "Kinesthetic Intelligence Plus, Inc.

Dancing Verbs in the Classroom, Gym or Studio

This session will teach participants how to use dance to move to the qualities of a large range of verbs and adverbs, to create dance phrases that focus on the dynamic qualities of the verbs and adverbs, to write similes and poems based on the kinesthetic feeling of the verbs and adverbs, and to create dance studies/compositions using similes and poems written. Participants will be choreographing alone, with a partner and in groups. They will see how to make connections between art forms and how to integrate dance and literacy. Language Arts become an impetus for creative movement expression and vice versa. This curriculum can be adjusted to teach students K-5.

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Leigh Kallestad, MakeMusic

SMARTMUSIC and IMPACT 101 for Band and Orchestra

What is SmartMusic? How do I get started and is it easy to use? Can SmartMusic help my students? Can I effectively use SmartMusic in my classroom and rehearsal? SmartMusic is an amazing software program that is loaded with features that will give you and your students access to teaching tools that lead to improved performance. When used in conjunction with Impact, it can transform the way you teach band and orchestra.

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Rob Wottawa, Longwood Central School District

...And Rhythm for All

This presentation is to show everyone how to organize/teach/manipulate rhythms to work for their situation. Participants will perform rhythm examples from the board, using the "Say it, play it, together” method; and be able to manipulate a rhythm for their use, including accents and other articulations.

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Anthony Romeo III, Seaford UFSD, members of StikFigures Percussion Ensemble

Preparing Your Students for Percussion Adjudications and Auditions

This clinic is designed for music educators to help prepare their percussionists in grades 4 - 12 for adjudicated festivals and auditions. Discussion topics will include suggested practices and techniques for snare drum, timpani, mallets, and multiple percussion. Audition requirements, as it pertains to the NYSSMA manual, will also be discussed. Clinic also includes an informative and practical mock NYSSMA demonstration where attendees will observe a commentated NYSSMA audition showing appropriate versus inappropriate performance practices.

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Dan Friedman, Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District

Digital Audio on the Cheap

Too often we are mesmerized by high tech and rather complicated Pro Tools style setups to record digital audio. The democratizing force of technology has lowered the price of entry to under $100.00 for a quality digital audio setup. This work shop will cover the basics of digital audio as well as show educators how to record in a variety of different settings and situations. Some hands on opportunities will occur and any musician who would like to "be recorded” should feel free to bring their instrument.

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Thomas J. Manuel, The Stony Brook School

The Influence of Social Dance on the Development of Popular Music

This presentation offers a sound study of the complex relationship between the solely American born art form called jazz, and its equal counterpart, the dance form called the Lindy Hop. Exploring the Afro-European origins of both American music and movement one will find there are several factors which shaped its distant beginnings, and the forces which have formed its yet unfinished evolution.

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Tara Schoen Fishman, "TheaterFirst, Inc."

History of the Word

This is an innovative, interactive educational program that incorporates a "live theatre experience" with an in-school literacy/poetry program. This fresh, captivating theatrical performance with a live DJ, captures the voices of today’s youth through hip-hop and spoken word poetry and is specifically created for middle and high school students. The 60 minute performance follows six high school students over a single day as they navigate a world filled with challenges, hope and fear. It celebrates diversity with a cast of actors from all different ethnic backgrounds and authentically features current social and political topics that affect our society, communities and world today. The live performance coupled with the in-school writing workshops challenges students to think about, write about and to discuss social world issues facing them today in an invigorating, creative manner.

HUMANITIES 130

Ken Kimmelman, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Film--And the Art of Enjoying Justice!

The Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and President of Imagery Film, Ltd., speaks on and shows five of his short social issue films against prejudice and racism, homelessness and hunger (two films were produced for the United Nations).

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Richard DelRosso, Long Island Univ/C.W. Post College

Creating a Basic 3D Animation Using Maya 3D.

This workshop will demonstrate how to create a 3D animation in Maya 3D. Attendees will work on their own workstations and be shown step by step how to create a 3D model and then export it as a digital animation.

HUMANITIES 210

Joan Harrison, Long Island Univ/C.W. Post College

Digital Mandalas

In the age of digital excess it is easy to lose your center. The digital mandala project is a focusing exercise that teaches basic Photoshop concepts and tools during the creation of images of timeless beauty. With a scribble or doodle as a starting point participants are guided to form unique personal mandalas. This is a guaranteed rewarding first venture into the world of imaging and a potent focal point for the discussion of content and meaning in art and life.

HUMANITIES 211

Prof. Terence O'Daly, C.W. Post College

Using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 to Create Dynamic Web Page Content

This workshop will demonstrate how to easily add dynamic content to web pages with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 without in-depth knowledge of programming or Adobe Flash. Participants should have basic experience with Macintosh.

NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Patricia Lannes, Jean Henning

Habits of the Creative Mind as defined by Eric Booth

How are these processes and attitudes reflected in works of visual art? Explore the answers to these questions as you view Nassau County Museum of Art’s two very different exhibitions, Tiffany and the Gilded Age and Laura V Seeger, Children’s Book Illustrations. This will be a participatory workshop, with facilitated discussions in the galleries and small group writing and discussion activities.