Session Handouts
View select session/workshop handouts and presentations below.
Assessment in the Choral Classroom
Whether novice or veteran, today’s music educator is increasingly faced with implementing accountability strategies in their classrooms. In this session, you will be introduced to and/or familiarized with a variety of assessment models that allow for individual student evaluations that benefit the entire choral program. Implementation of these methods is easy; they work well for any music curriculum and the results will clearly communicate your students’ achievements to your administrators, colleagues and parents. Strategies explored in this session will aid students in learning repertoire, elevate students’ musical aptitude, and encourage lifelong music making.
Leadership That Lasts - Navigating Burnout as a Choral Director
Choral directors carry the responsibility of inspiring musicians, managing demanding schedules, and supporting the emotional needs of their communities. Leadership That Lasts explores the causes and warning signs of burnout while offering practical approaches to boundaries, balance, and sustainable leadership. The goal is not simply to endure the work, but to lead with renewed purpose, creativity, and joy.
The Choral Director as the Voice Teacher
The benefits of having students in your ensembles participate in voice lessons can be invaluable. The reality is that access to these lessons is not always available or affordable. This participatory session will introduce vocal techniques, literature ideas and rehearsal tips that will strengthen your singers’ musicality and promote healthy vocalism throughout your rehearsals. This session is for the “do it all” teacher/conductor searching for more strategies to develop their choral singers’ personal vocal development.
Leadership in Action
Building Confidence, Communication, and Rehearsal Culture
Every rehearsal is an opportunity to build more than musical skill. Leadership in Action explores how confidence, intentional communication, and purposeful leadership can create a culture where singers feel valued, challenged, and inspired. When trust and shared purpose shape the rehearsal room, ensembles do more than perform well, they grow, connect, and discover what they are capable of achieving together.
Developing Relevant, Responsive and Purposeful Pedagogical Practices
This session explores practical strategies for creating choral classrooms that are musically rigorous, culturally responsive, and student-centered. Participants will examine approaches to inclusive repertoire selection, meaningful rehearsal design, and intentional pedagogy that supports diverse learners and fosters artistic growth
Exploring Future Teaching Practices for the Choral Classroom during COVID-19 and Beyond
This session explore synchronous and asynchronous Future Teaching Practices (FTP) that will help the choral directors pivot their instruction to meet the musical needs and social/emotional of their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Nothing can replace in person choral singing but through collaboration and positivity, we can keep our community intact until we can sing together again.
Refreshed and Renewed Repertoire: Because Your SATB Folder Needs Help!
Diversity and Inclusion in Action: Exploring Repertoire
