Register here for Summer Workshop for Music Educators: Engaging Movement in General Music: Thinking Outside the Box.

Movement is integral to true understanding in music, helping students better comprehend multiple music concepts. Movement also lends to a sense of community and belonging, assisting teachers with many overarching cultural sensitivity and social/emotional goals. Besides looking at a sequential framework for approaching movement from Pre-K through Middle School, you’ll learn why movement (including folk dancing) is crucial in the general music classroom. Lastly, but crucially, we will discuss how to boldly and joyfully include all genres of music, including Pop, Global, Classical, and Hip Hop, to help meet students where they are and draw them into this important (and fun!) component of being musical. 

Dr. Missy Strong, instructor

Bio: Missy Strong has taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the early childhood, elementary, and middle school levels for 28 years and is the host and Executive Producer of the Music Ed Amplified podcast and recently received the 2023 Master Music Teacher Award from the New Jersey Music Educators Association. Missy holds a Master of Music Education degree from Rowan University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education with a specialty in Early Childhood Musical Development from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She currently teaches elementary general and choral music in Mount Laurel Township, NJ and is adjunct professor at Rowan University. She served as the Senior Research Assistant for Music Together and was the Director of Children’s Music Education at Philadelphia’s historic Tenth Presbyterian Church for over a decade. A frequent music education consultant and clinician, Missy presents conference sessions, professional development workshops, webinars, and courses at the collegiate, international, regional, state, and local levels. She is a published author and editor with articles in both state and national music education journals and books from GIA Publications and Oxford University Press, including a chapter in an upcoming book about SEL in the Elementary General Music Classroom.
 

Important: If you wish to register for the music education workshops for graduate credit, please do not register here. Instead, please register HERE as a non-matriculating/visiting graduate student.