MASSACHUSETTS VOL. 69, NO. 3 SPRING 2021 MUSIC EDUCATORS A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION JOURNAL he g T Linin er e lv Issu Si Music Education Advocacy in a Pandemic Reflection, Resilience, Redirection Inclusive Music Education Thinking and Doing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Chrome Music Lab What Will Stay After the Pandemic Is Over? MASSACHUSETTS SPRING 2021 MUSIC EDUCATORS JOURNAL MASSACHUSETTS MUSIC EDUCATORS JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF CONTENTS Managing Editor Susan Gedutis Lindsay 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 18 HIGHER EDUCATION 33 CONTEMPORARY / JAZZ PO Box 920004 By Cecil Adderley Needham, MA 02492 Inclusive Music Thinking and 617.710.3915 Education: Doing: [email protected] 4 FROM THE EDITOR Where Do I Start? Approaches to Teaching By Adam Calusi Business Manager/ Kristen Harrington Letter from Jazz Improvisation Online Advertising PO Box 920004 By Keith Kelly the Editor Needham, MA 02492 21 IN-OVATIONS 617.680.1492 By Susan Gedutis Lindsay 36 MAJE [email protected] The Promise of 5 CONFERENCE Editorial Board Tom Reynolds, Advocacy Artistic Process: MAJE Updates Social Emotional Learning By Joseph Mulligan Faith M. Lueth, Choral MMEA Conference (SEL) Aligns the Monthly Virtual Jarritt Sheele, Culturally Standards 37 RESEARCH AND MUSIC Responsive Teaching Workshops: FREE PD TEACHER EDUCATION By Scott Edgar, Fran Kick, By Noreen Diamond Burdett Allyn Phelps, General Music and Lori Schwartz Reich “Won’t You Be Rhoda Bernard, Higher Education 7 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE My Neighbor?” Tom Westmoreland, IN-ovations TEACHING 24 INSTRUMENTAL A Review of the Literature on Adam Grüschow, Instrumental Frameworks for Developing Paraprofessionals Community and Andrew Goodrich, Cultural Relevance in Inclusive Contemporary / Jazz in the Music Culture in Music Settings Anthony Beatrice, School Ensembles Classroom By Tina Nospal Large Municipalities By Gregory Lessar By Jarritt Ahmed Sheel Dr. Tawnya Smith, Research 41 TECHNOLOGY and Music Teacher Education 26 GENERAL MUSIC 9 ADVOCACY Chrome Music Lab: Stephanie Riley, Technology Music Education A Holistic Fun and Educational for Please send all Susan Gedutis Lindsay Advocacy in Approach to All Grades and Disciplines By Stephanie M. 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It will take all of us to collaborate, explore, change, modify, add, and listen as we have difficult conversations with those we report to, serve, and want This school year has been different than those of prior terms. We to work with in making arts education for all throughout the Commonwealth. have adapted our instruction, approached professional development differently, and are being creative as we look at the future of educa- This is just one of our contributions to arts education in the country and world. The tion throughout the Commonwealth, nationally, and globally. We grand picture in a post-COVID world is have taken hints from other MMEA members as to how they are to make sure that the arts thrive, and to reaching their students near and far, as well as been encouraged improve and provide greater access in the days ahead of us. All of the communities by watching a Virginia music teacher providing instruction to his of the Commonwealth have unique artistic students online in the back of his Humvee as he serves our country needs and provide an outlet for the creative in the National Guard during the transition of one presidential minds located within those borders. It will take all of us working toward expanding administration to the next. Music teachers are some of the most the reach and opportunities to more within resourceful in our communities and this level of commitment is yet those borders so that they too, may reach one example of how we, as professionals, have kept our commit- out into the greater artistic space of Mas- ments to the music learners we serve. sachusetts and beyond with your guidance. Many of the MMEA committees are work with our clinicians in a remote setting. Creative arts have working to figure out the best ways to Though different than prior festivals reach more learners in all communities. we believe that this model was the most been our home away Input from these families and teachers appropriate to create a safe environment for from home, and we have is important to complete our work and all. Feedback on this experience will inform provide opportunities for those who may all as to what we can do better if similar often taught in the have never participated in our honor procedures are to be implemented at a manner we have been ensembles, conferences, or the other related future time. Some of our students were also activities of the organization. The work selected for the All-Eastern Festival, which taught. However, of our Diversity and Inclusion committee meets during the same weekend and pro- our world, influenced demonstrates some of the work within the vided both required and optional activities Commonwealth, and our contribution to for our students. We should celebrate the by technology and an our national organization (NAfME) as we work of these young people, the teachers increasingly complex share how local improvements impact the for their guidance, and the numerous collective contributions of the state music local communities and schools for their economic market, encour- educator associations (MEAs) across our support. As we reflect on what we have ages us to look at our great nation. A great deal of this work is accomplished, we must continue to strive to reflected in how we provide District and improve these experiences and to meet the artistic assets, build upon All-State opportunities, professional devel- charge of a changing society with a focus that foundation, and opment, and conference programs related on improving the educational setting for all. to the current challenges and successes open the door to all of The final months of winter and the within all of our schools. The information beginning of our spring academic calendar the possible solutions. we collect informs us of how we can best are the times we begin to reflect on what proceed and bring more music learners we have been able to accomplish, offer the into our classrooms in every community. Your guidance to the music learners you activities we have planned, and begin to serve is key. However, the activities we One of our offerings, the Massachusetts advocate and budget for the future. Advo- have collectively planned are not free. Each All-State Festival, was moved online to cating for arts education is not something year, we all budget for programs and revise provide an experience for those selected to we do once and we have completed the SPRING 2021 | VOL. 69 NO. 3 MASSACHUSETTS MUSIC EDUCATORS JOURNAL | 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR BACK TO TOP protocols to remain within the guidelines all educators must follow when working Letter from the Editor with youth. And, post COVID, we antici- By Susan Gedutis Lindsay, MMEA Managing Editor pate that most of us will face even tighter budgets, which may limit some of our plans. Though some in-kind gestures may appear minor, we have to look at the grand picture of how those we partner with have been supportive and may pass on increased business cost to all organizations as they Welcome to the Silver Lining Issue! attempt to recover from their losses during the pandemic. It will take much discussion and work to move forward in the “new Serendipitously, it has turned out to be a deep dive into positiv- normal” as the guidelines post-pandemic ity. It’s unanimous: This has been a tough year. But what have will provide us a framework to work within. we learned? What’s the positive side? Creative arts have been our home away Each author in this issue explores, in ourselves or from our colleagues? Many from home, and we have often taught in their own way, their newfound solutions hear this call for a “new way” of teaching the manner we have been taught. However, to the most pressing challenges that and worry that all that they have done our world, influenced by technology and affect music teachers today.