2008 – 2009 KESNE WORKSHOPS
Time to plan your calendars now. You won’t want to miss any of these wonderful offerings. We have added a new, complimentary “Meet, Greet and Eat” component at the end of each of our workshops. A chance to Meet new friends, Greet old friends and Eat a wonderful light lunch provided by your KESNE Board.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
SOUPS, STEWS, AND SHARING SESSION
Did you ever have an idea that you were just bursting to share? This is your opportunity!
This chance only happens once every two years. Please consider sharing something that works for you, something that delights you. We would love to add your idea to our ideas. It can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as 30. Please contact Lillie at lhfmusic@aol.com with your gem. This is always a very popular session. We laugh a lot, learn a lot and have a wonderful time.
University of Hartford Magnet School, University of Hartford campus
Registration: 8:30 AM
Workshop: 9 AM – Noon
Meet, Greet and Eat: Noon – 1 PM
Your KESNE Board will provide heartwarming and soul soothing soups, stews, and chili. You won’t want to miss this 2009 kickoff.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Kids Create: Developing Musical Understanding through Creative Activities
JAY BROEKER
Come and work with this exceptional and eclectic educator who will inspire us with his breadth and depth of knowledge about children and their musical growth. Music Education encourages students to create their own music. The resulting compositions or improvisations are highly sophisticated forms of “knowing in action” that provide ideal opportunities for gauging the richness or depth of a student’s musical understanding. This workshop provides models of activities used to elicit students’ creative responses as well as procedures that can be used by students and the teacher to help articulate and further develop their own understanding.
Jay is also an “Arranger Extraordinaire”.
This workshop is co sponsored with our good friends at CT AOSA.
Jay Broeker
Central University
Registration: 8:30 AM
Workshop: 9 AM – 1:30 PM
(Since this is a joint CTAOSA and KESNE workshop; lunch will not be provided).
March 12 – 14, 2009
OAKE and MENC
Uh-Oh! Both of these wonderful conferences are planned for the same weekend.
OAKE
OAKE will be in Washington, DC, where we will celebrate
Kodaly in the Capital: A Musical Legacy.
We are delighted that OAKE will be in our neighborhood. They will be asking for our help in various capacities and would appreciate anything that anyone is willing and able to do. This should be a great conference. See you there!
MENC
MENC will be in Providence, Rhode Island. Detailed information can be obtained at www.menc-eastern.org.
Thursday through Saturday, April 2 – April 4, 2009
64th CMEA IN-SERVICE CONFERENCE
Connecticut Convention Center
Do consider submitting a proposal for a session. Perhaps it could be something that you already presented to KESNE back in January at our Sharing Session! The deadline for submitting is September 1, 2008. Applications are online or in CMEA News.
Good Luck! See you there.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
MUSIC AND LITERACY
Dr. Dee Hansen
In this time of everything becoming secondary to literacy, do you wonder about how you can “teach it all?” Come and learn from a leading authority about how you can, without sacrificing your music goals.
Dr. Hansen is the well-respected author of The Music and Literacy Connection.
Dr. Dee Hansen
Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, University of Hartford
Registration: 8:30 AM
Workshop: 9 AM – Noon
Meet, Greet and Eat: Noon – 1 PM
Your KESNE Board will provide an appropriate (and always delicious) light lunch as we end our year together and plan for the next one. Bring along your ideas for topics and clinicians. This is YOUR organization.