The Role of Music in School Reform

The Role of Music in School Reform

FMEA Annual PD Conference 2014, Sondra Allison Wenninger Collins

2013 Yale Symposium on Music in SchoolsHistorical ContextPresent-day HappeningsA Look into the FutureWhy Music?

Historical Context of

music in schools

Richard Deasy,Retired Director of the Arts Education Partnership

“What do we, as music

educators, want

to advocate

in the larger

picture of school

reform?”

How will the arts respond?

Shoulder-partner time!

Present-day Happenings of Music in Schools

Scott C. Shuler,Immediate Past President of NAfME & Arts Education Specialist for the Connecticut State Department of Education

“Children need instructional time in the

arts!”

“This is an equity

issue and a civil

rights issue!”

Garth Harries,Superintendentof the New Haven Public Schools

“Is this an industrial or professional sense of

education? And how do we move from industrial

to professional?”

Small Group Discussions, Distinguished Music

Educators

Shoulder-partner time!

What’s happening in

your neck of the woods?

A Look into the Future of music in

schools

David Myers,Director of the University of Minnesota School of Music

“Failure may not be fatal, but failure to change may

be!”

Michael Yaffe,Associate Dean of the Yale School of Music

Ellen Maust,Supervisor of

Music for New Haven Public

Schools

Dantes Rameau,Co-founder of the Atlanta Music Project

Are these new programs working?

Just LOOK at their faces!

Shoulder-partner time!

What can YOU do to change the

future of music in our schools?

Why Music??

Anne Midgette,Classical Music Critic for The Washington Post

“As music teachers, you are

touching kids through a love

they already have – the trick is to

connect to them through that love and amplify that

love.”

Round-Table Discussion,

Distinguished Music Educators

http://music.yale.edu/community/music-in-schools/symposium/

The Role of Music in School Reform

FMEA Annual PD Conference 2014, Sondra Allison Wenninger Collins