IL CMP NEWS
Fall, 2019
Happy Fall
The members of the IL CMP committee hope that you are having a wonderful school year. It's hard to believe that we are 1/3 of the way through our school year. We hope you have had great successes with your students so far and that you have had a chance to use the CMP model to enhance your students' musical experiences. Please plan on joining us for the IMEC reception this January. We’d also like to invite you to attend our sixth IL CMP Summer Workshop at NIU this summer. We hope that you have a successful and enriching remainder of your school year!
2020 CMP WORKSHOP
Dates: June 22-26, 2020
Location: Northern Illinois University
You can earn 3 Graduate Credits or 45 CPDU's
Registration Opens: January 15th
Save $50 if you register before April 15th
Please Join Us at IMEC!
Place: Kenny's West Side Pub
112 SW Jefferson Ave
Peoria
Date: Friday, January 31st
Time: 4:30-6:30 pm
First Round is on us! We hope you can join us!!
Increasing Diversity and Equity in K-12 Ensemble Repertoire
This is an excerpt of a blog post found on the NAfME website by Dr. Mary Lynn Doherty
As music educators, one of the most important things we are responsible for is choosing high-quality music to share with our students. Our backgrounds and specialized training in music education give us unique opportunities to serve our students by programming music that celebrates diversity. When we program music by women and composers of color, we automatically increase the power of those voices. But this requires a lot of thoughtful reflection in order to ensure that our students are learning from composers with different perspectives and life experiences; just putting a piece in front of students does not amplify those voices. Going a few steps further will increase the depth and breadth of your students’ musical experiences, as well as enriching them as people.
As we know, the teaching profession is not racially diverse. According to the Pew Research Center, America’s public school teachers are far less racially and ethnically diverse than their students (Geiger, 2018). One way we can increase the connections students make to their school music programs is to intentionally program music by diverse composers and teach our students about those composers’ lives and backgrounds. We can even help our students make personal connections with living composers through commissions, live chats and residencies, which strengthen students’ experience by seeing the person in a position of power.
Another opportunity to bring awareness of the composer would be to encourage students to consider the viewpoint of the composer through journaling, or to ask students to analyze the composers’ choices as they are learning the music. This type of teaching is well supported by the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model of teaching, which asks teachers to develop outcomes for skill, knowledge, and affective learning domains, as well go well beyond the teaching of notes and rhythms to provide a comprehensive learning experience through music (O’Toole, 2003). CMP has five points of the model that informs a teacher’s planning, teaching, and assessment of student learning.
by Mary Lynn Doherty Ph.D. Northern Illinois University
“Reprinted with permission from National Association for Music Education (NAfME). The full article published on [date of publication] can be found here.” https://nafme.org/increasing-diversity-equity-k-12-ensemble-repertoire/
WOULD YOU LIKE A CMP PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION AT YOUR SCHOOL/DISTRICT?
Professional Development led by Committee Members
October 17, 2019: Glenbard String Festival ~Randy Swiggum
October 21 & 28, 2019: CSO Docent and Teacher Workshop ~Judy Hays
October 25 & 26, 2019: Fall ACDA Conference at Wheaton College ~Jeremy Little and Andy Jeffrey
November 2, 2019: ILMEA District 8 Elementary Choir at Rochelle ~Dr. Mary Lynn Doherty
November 6-9, 2019: National NAfME on Diversity ~Dr. Mary Lynn Doherty
November 9, 2019: ILMEA District 9 MS Honor Choir Director at Huntly High School~Andy Jeffrey
November 14, 2019: DeKalb School District Music PD ~Mr. Mary Lynn Doherty and Bill Rank
November 16, 2019: ILMEA District 8 Middle School Jazz Director at Belvidere ~Bill Rank
December 6, 2019: Illinois ASTA Orchestra Festival Midwest Young Artists Conservatory at Highwood ~Ray Oswald
January 28, 2020: Schaumberg Elementary District 54 PD ~Judy Hays and Patty Trump
IMEC 2020:
January 30, 2020 (9:00 am): Growing a Title One Music Program using CMP ~Beth Wood and Mike Kasper
February 1, 2020 (8:15 am): New Trier High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert
~Matt Temple, Conductor
February 18, 2020: Moline School District PD ~Judy Hays and Jeremy Little
April 27, 2020: Fox Valley Music Festival at Aurora East HS ~Ray Oswald, Orchestra Conductor
Members of the IL CMP Committee
Elementary General Music
St. Charles District 303
Armstrong Elementary School, Schaumburg
Retired Currently IWU
Retired Des Moines, IA Public Schools
Middle School Band
Rotolo Middle School, Batavia
Carpentersville Middle School, Carpentersville
Oak Prairie Jr. High School, Lockport
High School Band
Highland Park High School, Highland Park
Schaumburg High School, Schaumburg
New Trier High School, Winnetka
Middle School Choir
Metea Valley High School, Aurora
Dundee Middle School. Dundee
High School Choir
Metea Valley High School, Aurora
Glenbard West High School, Glen Ellyn
Vernon Hills High School, Vernon Hills
Middle School Orchestra
Washington Jr. High School, Joliet
Hampshire Middle School, Hampshire
High School Orchestra
Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove
York High School, Elmhurst
Youth Orchestra
University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Hyde Park Youth Symphony
Higher Education
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb