Department Chairs
Fine Arts May Digital Meeting
May Meeting
I will share next year's dates as soon as I get them. You can go ahead and plan to meet on our district PL Day for our first session of the coming school year. That date will be July 26. Time and location TBA.
Thanks again,
Katie
State Fine Arts Seals
**These seals will be coming to the Senior Counselor or person in your school in charge of seals so you don't have to do anything in that regard. Just an FYI
Perfect My Music
Please share the information below:
These are yearlong subscriptions and would need to be renewed from year to year. Renewals would receive a 10% discount each year. Let me know if these prices seem reasonable. These prices are in line with the district proposal that I submitted in January.
Package #1: Georgia All State Chorus Prep Courses
- PRICE: $99 per level per school year + $2 per student
- Levels available are Grades 7-8, 9-10, 11-12
- Includes free teacher account with access to interactive teaching aids for whole group instruction
- Each level includes 12 videos per course, 12 interactive lessons per course, scales practice tracks for all vocal parts, solo practice tracks for all vocal parts, solo pronunciation tracks, and 300 sight reading exercises per vocal part customized to the GA All State Chorus parameters
Package #2: Music Theory Curriculum
- PRICE: $99 for level 1 + $50 for each additional level + $2 per student
- 4 levels available
- Curriculum covered can be found at https://perfectmymusic.com/paulding
- Includes free teacher account with access to interactive teaching aids for whole group instruction
- Each level includes 20 video/audio interactive lessons, hundreds of self-grading practice exercises, practice quiz, and self-grading quizzes for student assessment
Package #3: Sight Singing Curriculum
- PRICE: $99 for Levels 1 and 2, $199 for Levels 3 and 4, $299 for Levels 5 and 6 + $2 per student
- 6 levels available
- Curriculum covered can be found at https://perfectmymusic.com/paulding
- Includes free teacher account with access to interactive teaching aids for whole group instruction
- Each level includes 25 video/audio interactive lessons, 10-20 sight reading exercises per lesson, self-grading quizzes for student assessment, and individual sight singing assessment for each lesson (student submits recording of performance of a sight singing exercise for teacher grading)
If you order two or more packages, the $2 per student fee is applied only one time. For example, if you ordered Packages 1 and 2, you would pay $2 per student, not $4 per student.
Package #4: All Access Package for Choral, Band, or Orchestra Group
If you want all of our content for use with all of the students in your program, you pay a flat fee of $599 per school year. You get access to everything in Packages 1, 2, 3 for use with any student enrolled in your program. This fee is per school group, not per teacher. For example, if you teach middle school chorus and high school chorus, you would have to buy a package for each of these group. This is a savings of $446 if you have 100 students in your program and a savings of $546 if you have 150 students in your program.
Important AP Information
AP Info
AP Teachers:
- The 2019-20 AP Course Audit will open in May 2019, and you won’t need to update your syllabus. You’ll simply need to acknowledge the updates on your AP Course Audit form. (Experienced AP teachers Only)
- You need to go to your specific course pages online so you can see the changes for your course (some are slight, and some are a little larger, some of you may need to adjust your syllabus but won’t have to resubmit): https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses Below I have provided a screen shot of a course page. The yellow arrow shows you where to find your course updates
- Be sure to pre-order you unit guide binder that will be sent to you this summer. Below is a screen shot of a course page. The red arrow shows you where to find the pre-order form.
Georgia AP Teacher Network
We would appreciate it if you could forward this email to all your AP teachers so they may sign up for the new email distribution list. Please note, all previous AP teacher lists have been discontinued.
The College Readiness team would like to increase our communication to AP teachers in the state as the College Board rolls out changes to AP for the 2019-2020 school year. To do this, we are recreating our AP Teacher Network Email Distribution lists and request your help.
We would like to compile accurate distribution lists of our AP teachers in Georgia by content area to:
- share updates and information with AP teachers from the GaDOE and College Board.
- provide contact information between teachers of a specific content area.
- promote collaboration and communication among AP teachers across the state.
- Please note, by completing the distribution email list form, teachers agree to share their contact information with other Georgia AP teachers.
AP Teachers: please complete the Georgia AP Teacher Network email form located here: http://bit.ly/2KlZnBp.