Handout Gallery
Session titles listed below in green link to that sessions handout. Additional handouts will be posted as they become available.
Technology for Beginning Bands
Clinician: Craig Alberty
Recording Tools for Music Education (1.0 MB)
Clinician: Jeremy Bartunek
Student Composition in Performing Ensembles (37.1 KB)
Clinicians: James Baum and Katie Pilson
Got Rhythm? Getting the Most Out of Your Rhythm Section
Clinicians: Doug Beach, Bob Rummage, Ken Haebich, Mike Pinto and Frank Caruso
Engaging Rehearsals: I'm Not Going to Let Your Sit There!
Clinician: Louis Bergonzi
May I Have this Dance? PBIS and Ballroom Dance in the Middle School General Music Curriculum (241.7 KB)
Clinician: Jennifer Berman-Rickert
Dundee-Crown High School Symphony Orchestra (2.9 MB)
Mark Bettcher and Larry VanMersbergen, Conductors
Creating Performances that Enhance Musical Learning (1.5 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Bland
Dixieland 101: The Use of the Tuba in Early Jazz; Performance and Pedagogy (111.8 KB)
Clinician: Thomas Bough
Seven Steps to the Blues (660.2 KB)
Clincian: Daniel Brame
How to Rebuild your Middle School/Junior High Choral Program (13.7 MB)
Clinicians: Elizabeth Byassee Shore, Erica Hatchett and Charles Williamson
Out of the Box and Into Your Classroom: Electric Strings in Your Orchestra (85.6 KB)
Out of the Box and Into Your Classroom: Electric Strings in Your Orchestra (115.5 KB)
Clinician: Nancy Campbell
Teacher and Conductor: Two Hats-One Goal (102.4 KB)
Teacher and Conductor: Two Hats-One Goal (167.5 KB)
Teacher and Conductor: Two Hats-One Goal (310.9 KB)
Clinician: Richard Cangro
Oh, That’s How Your Do It! More Conversations with Mentor Teachers
Clinicians: Richard Cangro, Emily Petway and Joseph Manfredo
Hip Hop Studies: The Whys and Hows of Starting Your Own Hip Hop Course (120.8 KB)
Clinician: Anthony Cao
Uke Can Do It! Starting a Ukulele Program Can Be Easy and Unexpensive (67.7 KB)
Clinician: Christopher Cayari
Show Choir as Popular Music Ensemble in Choral Music Education: A Review of the LIterature (111.9 KB)
Presenter: Christopher Cayari
Music For All: Strategies for Teaching ESL and ELL Students in the Music Classroom
Clinician: Colleen Cetera
Clinician: Joshua Chodoroff
Drumming: Easy as 1-2-3! (5.4 MB)
Clinician: Kris Cooper
Inspire your Ensemble! How to Incorporate Chamber Music Into Your Band and Orchestra Classroom (135.6 KB)
Clinicians: Anna Cromwell, Danelle Larson, Jemmie Robertson and Magie Smith
Tech Tricks to Help You Do It All, When You Have to Teach It All!
Clinicians: Anissa Danley and Bernadette Rutkiewicz
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (33.8 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (43.8 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (33.4 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (54.0 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (44.7 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (47.0 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (37.1 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (46.0 KB)
Recruiting Trombonists: Ideas for Getting Them and Keeping Them (49.5 KB)
Clinicians: JoDee Davis and Jennifer Moder
The NBCTeachers Are In! (107.8 KB)
Professional Development Clinic
iTeachMusic: Technology in the Elementary General Classroom
Clinician: Manju Durairaj
Fitting It All In: Makig the Most of Your Jazz Rehearsal Time
Clinicians: Sam Fagaly and Paul Johnston
Different is Good! Rehearsal Strategies for Actively Engaged Ensemble Students
Clincian: Timothy Fawkes
Clinician: John Feierabend
First Steps in Music: Vocal Development in the Early Years
Clinician: John Feierabend
12 Steps to Music Literacy using Conversational Solfege, Part 1
Clinician: John Feierabend
First Steps in Music: Movement Development in the Early Years
Clinician: John Feierabend
Focus on Field Experiences Leading to Music Teacher Licensure
Clinician: Patricia Flowers
Action Research: The Inquiring Music Teacher
Clinician: Patricia Flowers
Common Core in the Music Classroom (2.2 MB)
Common Core in the Music Classroom (72.6 KB)
Common Core in the Music Classroom (90.6 KB)
Clinician: Tom Foust
Equal Learning, Not Equal Experience – Structuring Learning in Ways that ALL Students are Learning
Clincian: Tim Fredstrom
Music Across the Curriculum
Clinicians: Michael Gallina and Jill Gallina
Puttin' on the Kidz: Setting the Stage fo Success!
Clinicians: Michael Gallina and Jill Gallina
Building a Bridge to Musical Fluency: An Introduction to Kodaly-Inspired Teaching (129.3 KB)
Clinician: Brent Gault
Listen Up! Active Approaches to Music Listening in the Elementary General Music Classroom (165.8 KB)
Clinician: Brent Gault
Practicing What They Teach (94.7 KB)
Clinicians: Chip Gdalman and Diane Chandler-Marshall
Teaching Adolescents in General Music: Know Your Audience!
Clinician: Kevin Gerrity
Creativity in the Ensemble
Clinician: Robin Giebelhausen
Drummer's Guide to Kicking the Big Band
Clinician: Steve Giove
Bloom’s and Band: Using Chamber Ensembles to Reach Higher Levels of Musical Thinking (177.0 KB)
Clinicians: Adam Gohr and Keith Pitner
Before You Meet the Judges (or Audience) Meet the Band Doctors (443.5 KB)
Clincians: Judy Grimes and Ross Kellan
Energize your Recorder Program
Clinician: Lenna Harris
Fun with Folkdances for All Ages!
Clinicians: Sarah Hassler and Lisa Sullivan
Talk to the Wall!
Clinician: Sarah Hassler
SmartMusic on the iPad
Clinician: David Hawley
Ready, Set, Create!
Clinician: Jean Hersey
Clinician: Bill Howes
Overcoming the Challenges of Your First Two Years...With Flying Colors!
Clinician: Bethany Hughes
Guitar Class Year 1: What To Do and How To Do It (40.6 KB)
Clinician: Nate Jackson
Embrace the New Evaluation Model and Enlighten Your Evaluator (77.9 KB)
Embrace the New Evaluation Model and Enlighten Your Evaluator (67.5 KB)
Embrace the New Evaluation Model and Enlighten Your Evaluator (102.0 KB)
Embrace the New Evaluation Model and Enlighten Your Evaluator (41.5 KB)
Embrace the New Evaluation Model and Enlighten Your Evaluator (140.6 KB)
Clinicians: William Jastrow and Charles Staley, Jr.
What Composers Rarely Include in the Percussion Parts (129.5 KB)
Clinician: William Jastrow
Overcoming Generation Gaps in Music Education
Clinicians: Eyal Kaminka and Yigal Kaminka
New Technological Tools to Energize your Music Classroom
Clinicians: Eyal Kaminka and Yigal Kaminka
Using Your Music "Smarts" with a Smartboard (3.4 MB)
Clinician: Chris Kelsey
Developing a Performance Based Curriculum for Measuring Student Growth! (596.7 KB)
Clinician: William Koch
Gear Up with Garage Band (1.3 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Kolze
Taking the "General" Uut of Middle School General Music! (302.9 KB)
Clinician: Jennifer Kolze
Dj-ing in the Classroom
Clinician: Will Kuhn
Idiots Guide to Tri-M: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Chapter and Make Your Existing Chapter Much More Meaningful! (176.7 KB)
Clinicians: Kim Ladage, Carolyn Dobrinich and Bekah Philbrick
A Practical Approach to Relating Ensemble Instruction to the Danielson Framework (248.1 KB)
Clinicians: Stacey Larson Dolan and Pamela Snoeck
Making Each Minute Count
Clinician: Cheryl Lavender
Calling all World Brothers and Sisters
Clinician: Cheryl Lavender
Integrating the Common Core State Standards into the Music Rehearsa (47.3 MB)
Clinician: Courtney Leach
Designing a Standards-Based, Comprehensive Curriculum for the Performance-Based Band Ensemble
Clinician: Joseph Manfredo
Ideas for Finding Advanced String Literature (2.6 MB)
Clinician: Jeremy Marino
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Philharmonic Orchestra Strings (569.3 KB)
Michael Mascari, Conductor
Integrating Homeschoolers into Your Program: The Promise and the Challenge (62.7 KB)
Clinician: Joanne May
Pre-Student Teaching Experiences: Using the Medical Clinical Model
Clinicians: Kimberly McCord and Molly Munson-Dyer
Using Technology to Adapt for Children with Communication Disorders
Clinicians: Kimberly McCord and Nancy O’Neill
Creativity Through Songwriting in the Classroom (98.9 KB)
Clinician: Caitlin McGovern
Technology Resources for the General Music Classroom (97.3 KB)
Clinician: Neal McMullian
Tools for Your Toolbox: Rehearsal Strategies for Rehearsal Effectiveness
Clinician: Charles Menghini
Hooked on Orchestra: Recruiting Students and Keeping Them (2.0 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Mishra
Proactive Classroom Management (4.1 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Mishra
Rehearse for Practice: Practice to Rehearse (1.5 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Mishra
Building a Community of Creative Learning (789.5 KB)
Clinician: Sue Mueller
Making Music Without All the Stuff (725.7 KB)
Clinician: Sue Mueller
Clinician: Sue Mueller
Teaching Music with SmartBoard in the Rehearsal and Classroom Settings
Clinician: Jeff Nelson
Serving the Non-Traditional Music Student (434.9 KB)
Clinician: Paul Nielsen and the Grayslake North High School Pirate Choir/Slam Funk
Imperfect Authentic Teaching in a Perfect Authentic World: Starting an AP Music Theory Class at Your High School (1.4 MB)
Clinician: Chris Owen
Feel Like a Rock Star, Not a Rock Stop! Ideas for Performing Alternative String Styles (48.3 KB)
Clinician: Jennifer Silversone Page
They'll be Coming Out of the Woodwork - Ideas for Creating a Vibrant Orchestra Culture in Your School (276.8 KB)
They'll be Coming Out of the Woodwork - Ideas for Creating a Vibrant Orchestra Culture in Your School (2.4 MB)
Clinician: Carrie Provost and the Franklin Middle School Chamber Orchestra
Do Re Mi to ABC: Making the Connectino Between Participatory Music and Early Literacy (139.6 KB)
Clinician: Carole Peterson Stephens
Just Get It Out There: Using Class and Student Websites to Extend the Reach of Your Teaching
Clinicians: Jesse Rathgeber and Robert Hanrahan
Garageband, Audacity, and Aviary Oh My: Technology-Based Composing Demystified
Clinician: Jesse Rathgeber
TRS for Active and Retired Music Educators (2.8 MB)
Clinician: Claire Ribelin
Middle School General Music: Making It Their Favorite Class of the Day (7.3 MB)
Clinician: Jennifer Rooney
La Rumba Buena: Afro-Cuban Music and Culture for the Music Classroom
Clinician: Jamie Ryan
Score Study Fundamentals for the School Band Director (388.5 KB)
Clinician: Stephanie San Roman
Not Just Noise: Modern Electronic Music and the 21st Century Classroom (50.5 KB)
Clinicians: Adam Schlipmann and Grier Carson
Strategies for Working with Inaccurate Singers (9.1 MB)
Clinician: Julia Shaw
Actions Speak Louder Than Words (247.7 KB)
Clinician: Robert Sinclair
Taking the Fear out of Assessment
Clinician: Neal Smith
Horn Helps: How to Make Your Horn Section Sound Better (64.8 KB)
Clinician: David Snyder
Writing Rubrics: Tracking your Student's Improvement Through Performance (80.3 KB)
Clinician: David Snyder
The Perfect Repertoire for the Not So Perfect Choir
Clinician: Andrea Solya
Creating a Music Technology Course on a Budget (287.3 KB)
Clinicians: Wendy Strauss and Amanda Connon
Incorporating Rock, Funk, R&B, and Pop Into Your Jazz Band Curriculum
Clinician: Jim Struyk
Certificates to Licenses
Clinician: Kellee Sullivan
Technology with Integrity in the Orff Classroom
Clinician: Lisa Sullivan
Access for All: How to Make a Difference with the Ping! Model
Clinicians: Anthony Svejda, Susan Parks and Gabrielle Rosenblum
Hiking the Job Trail
Clinicians: Bridget Sweet and David Allen
The Paperless Music Tour: iPads, the Cloud and Social Media
Clincian: Brayer Teague
26 Tips for Quick and Easy Instrument Repair
Clinician: Joel Tellock
Tools for Assessing Student Learning in Elementary Music Classrooms: What's in your toolbox? (3.0 MB)
Clinician: Rosita Tendall
A Musical Journey to Taiwan, Ilha Formosa, the Beautiful Island
Clinician: Jui-Ching Wang
The Authentic Progression of Jazz Music and Singing from 1920-2012
Clincian: Deborah Williams
Choral Conducting Master Class: Small Changes, Big Results (474.2 KB)
Clinician: Ramona Wis
How do I Sing That? Basics of Vocal Pedagogy for the Choral Conductor (3.8 MB)
Clinician: Neal Woodruff