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Monday the 19 th of August, 2013 George Sumner, Education Specialist

Fayette County Schools C O N C E R T O F T H E M I N D MUSIC EDUCATORS Standards and Planning Collaborative Session. Monday the 19 th of August, 2013 George Sumner, Education Specialist. Moving our schools by identifying our challenges and solutions. Affinity Diagram Activity

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Monday the 19 th of August, 2013 George Sumner, Education Specialist

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  1. Fayette County SchoolsC O N C E R T O F T H E M I N DMUSIC EDUCATORS Standards and Planning Collaborative Session Monday the 19th of August, 2013 George Sumner, Education Specialist

  2. Moving our schools by identifying our challenges and solutions Affinity Diagram Activity • Celebration of what’s working in your school • Vertical & Horizontal Articulation • Sharing the potential that you see in your school • ID one thing that could move your program

  3. Standards Based InstructionMusically Spiraling Through the Years Spiraling CurriculumActivity • Let’s review our standards to look at “where we have been” and “where we are going” to build learning. • How can we support advancing literacy in our music classroom?

  4. Music Supports Literacy • Music and literacy go hand in hand. • Lyrics are the words in music and if you take lyrics of your favorite songs and recite them, you have poetry.  • We can tell just by the music in a movie when something scary is about to happen • You may not even notice it is there, but the music is setting the atmosphere for the story line. • The motivating power music can help students practice and understand reading and writing concepts and strategies.

  5. March to the beat! – music can keep kids in school! Music is power, and people who control the music are in control of people’s emotions…

  6. Consider.. • 45, 000 people, many of whom will tell you that they “can’t sing” will nevertheless sing the chorus to “Hey Jude” with joyful abandon at a Paul McCartney concert.

  7. And… • On 9/11, U.S. politicians spontaneously sang “God Bless America” on the steps of the capital building to express their sense of grief, anger, and patriotism. They didn’t spontaneously speak the pledge of allegiance in a monotone chant. 

  8. Plus… • For adults, a song from childhood or high school will evoke extraordinarily immediate and tactile memories of that time.

  9. And… • Parents softly sing to babies to calm them and get them to sleep.  Parents who “don’t sing” will purchase recordings and play them for the babies, knowing the effect they will have.

  10. Finally… • Immediately after a disaster, what is done in order to raise money?  A concert!  Not products to purchase, not a performance of comedy sketches, not an art installation, but music.  The music helps people process the pain of the disaster, and also provides a foundation to inspire people to give money to help victims.

  11. Music Matters! • What happens in your classes matters. • YOU daily make a difference in our future!

  12. Needs, Wants and Reality • Motivation • Connecting schools by performing together • Funding • Scheduling to save our program • “Selling Music” to save our students • Taking charge of our discipline to support our schools • And… What are your ideas?

  13. Music Leads to success in Life • Music is unique in that it is both a discipline and an immediate gateway to human emotional life.   Children who participate regularly in music not only hone their abilities to focus, think, analyze, organize, and work with colleagues, but begin to master their own emotional lives.

  14. Music can Save us… • Many of the people causing harm in the world through violence, wars, intimidation, and corruption could have avoided that path if they had had access to both a better awareness of their own emotional lives and a constructive passion in which to direct their desire for power.   Music provides both. blog.thesingingclassroom.com

  15. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE • Networking-“Within and Without “ • How can you build your program? • Outside the box ideas • Dream BIG!

  16. Goals- Where do we go from here? Ticket out the door- PARKING LOT

  17. For Support Contact: George Sumner, Education Specialist Fayette County Schools 304-673-8634 gsumner@gmail.com http://fayettemusic.wordpress.com

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