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Advocacy & Collaboration Monthly Blog: “Everyday Advocacy For Your Choral Program”

June 4, 2024 by Emily Williams Burch Leave a Comment

Your Advocacy & Collaboration Standing Committee has been quiet over here on their monthly blog post…why? We’ve been curating the most incredible A&C focus issue heading your way this fall! To get everyone excited and ready for the new content coming, we wanted to highlight some of the incredible articles from our first focus issue […]

Filed Under: Advocacy & Collaboration Tagged With: advocacy, Choral, Collaboration, Education

The Arts and the Exceptional Child with Dr. Matthew Zakreski

May 12, 2023 by Chris Munce 2 Comments

In this episode, we are honored to have Dr. Matt Zakreski, a clinical psychologist, joining us to discuss neurodiversity, autism, and gifted children in our classrooms. Dr. Zakreski brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our conversation, and we will be delving into various considerations for such kids in education, and in Fine Arts […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, Diversity, Education, fine arts, gifted, psychology

Should We Pay Student Teachers? With Dr. Tina Beveridge

January 13, 2023 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Is student teaching a “class?” or a “job?” Does this practice need a revamp in the face of the current teacher shortage? In this episode, I invited Tina Beveridge on to hash out a disagreement. A few months ago, I created a TikTok expressing my opinion that student teachers don’t “deserve” a paycheck. Mostly based […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: Access, ACDA Membership Benefits, American Choral Directors Association, Economy, Education, Equity

Learned Helplessness with Christine Sefein

January 6, 2023 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Is it possible that the over-politicization of classroom education could be contributing in some way to the epidemic of mental health problems amongst teens and young adults? Clinical Psychologist, and child of Egyptian immigrants, Christine Sefein thinks we should not ignore this possibility. The modern vogue for activism that kids are learning focuses on the […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: American Choral Directors Association, Education, philosophy, Social Justice

Channeling Emotional Contagion with Dr. Gary Seighman

December 9, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

There is an often felt, but rarely quantified sense within ensemble music experiences that something truly MAGICAL is happening that changes us profoundly. However, recentscientific discoveries (link to sources below) are adding a more concrete validity to that which experienced musicians already intuitively know. Studies that reveal the physiological and psychological processes of cooperative effort, […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, choir, Choral Journal, Choral Music, CONTAGION, Education, Pandemic, SCIENCE

The A Cappella Revolution with Rob Dietz

September 2, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

A Cappella guru, and ACDA Contemporary and Commercial co-chair, Rob Dietz joins me this week to tell his story of passion for the “Pop A Cappella” genre of ensemble vocal music. Rob is well known in this sub-genre of choral music for his work on “The Sing Off” and collaborations with groups as wide ranging as Pentatonix, […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: A cappella, ACDA Membership Benefits, choir, choralosophy, Education, pentatonix, pop, rob dietz, vocal music

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