Presentations

2017 April 1 Minneapolis, MN
Music EdVentures Inc.
  • What’s in a Score?: Literacy & SongWorks Notation

2017 Feb 16-17 Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Music Educators Association
  • Vitality: Reviving the Life in Your Teaching
  • RhymePlay: Playing with Children & Mother Goose (with Kathy Cartwright)
  • I Can Sing, I Can Read: Preserving Musicality in Music Literacy (with Leah Steffen)

2017 Feb 3-4 Cleveland, OH
Ohio Music Educators Association
  • Vitality: Reviving the Life in Your Teaching
  • Feedback that Feeds: Connecting What We Think and Say (with Samantha Meese)

2016 Nov 7 Taylors Falls, MN
Taylors Falls Elementary Staff Development
  • Teachers Teaching Teachers: Sharing Your Expertise

2016 Nov 7 Chisago Lakes, MN
Chisago Lakes Professional Development Day
  • Vitality: Regaining the Life in Your Teaching

2016 Nov 5 Woodbury, MN
MN Music EdVentures Workshop
  • Loving Teaching, Loving Learning: SongWorks for Teachers and Children

2016 July 11-15 St. Paul, MN
SongWorks Certification Specialization Course
  • Music Literacy for Children

2016 Apr 7-9 Denver, CO
Music EdVentures SongWorks Conference
  • Playfulness as Practice

2016 Feb 11 San Antonio, TX
Texas Music Educators Association Conference
  • Vitality: Reviving the Life in Your Teaching (with Vicky Suarez)

2016 Jan 23 Helena, MT
SongWorks: Playful Teaching, Vibrant Learning
  • Eliciting Musical Responses in Children

2015 Sep-Dec St. Paul, MN
SongWorks Certification Course
  • Practicum Course

2015 Jul 13-13 St. Paul, MN
SongWorks Certification Course
  • Foundations Course

2015 Apr 9 Denver, CO
Music EdVentures SongWorks Conference
  • Ripples: The Ways We Affect Each Other

2015 Feb 21 Baltimore, MD
Maryland Music Educators Association
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children w/Jake Harkins

2015 Feb 13 San Antonio, TX
Texas Music Educators Association
  • Feedback that Feeds: Connecting What We Think and Say w/Danielle Solan

2015 Jan 29, 30 Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Music Educators Association
  • Imagine That!: Cultivating Imaginations through Music Activities w/Beth Gadbaw
  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Reflections on How Our Behaviors Affect Our Students w/Betty Phillips

2014 Oct 17 Missoula, MT
Montana Music Educators Association
  • Getting Along: How to Reframe Difficult Moments in Schools

2014 May 16 Orono, ME
Maine Music Educators Association
  • Why Do We Do That? Questioning Five Common Practices for Teaching Children Music 
  • 14 MeMEA Why Handout
  • Getting Along: How to Reframe Difficult Moments with Colleagues, Parents, Students, Administrators
  • 14 MeMEA Getting Along ho

2014 Apr 3-5 Minneapolis, MN
Music EdVentures SongWorks Conference
  • Feedback that Feeds: Connecting What We Think and Say

2014 Feb 15 San Antonio, TX
Texas Music Educators Association
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children w/Vicky Suarez

2014 Feb 13-14 Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Music Educators Association
  • Feedback that Feeds: Connecting What We Think and Say w/Jeanette Potvin
  • Puzzling: How Children Can Read Music Musically w/Molly Feigal
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children w/Lisa Schoen & Karalyn Koskela

2014 Feb 8 Columbus, OH
Ohio Music Educators Association
  • Puzzling: How Children Can Read Music Musically w/Samantha Meese Smith

2014 Jan 23-25 Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Music Educators Association
  • Puzzling: How Children Can Read Music Musically w/Angelie Timm
  • Vitality: Reviving the Life in Your Teaching w/Taryn Raschdorf
  • Feedback that Feeds: Connecting What We Think and Say w/Theresa Derr
  • More Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children w/Aimee Newman

2013 May 1 Bozeman, MT
Gallatin Country Justice Court: Professional Development for Clerks

2013 June 22 Duquesne University, Pittsburg, PA
Early Childhood Music Initiative
  • Being Playful: Tapping Responsiveness, Imagination, Literacy, and Fun in Ourselves and Children

2013 May 22 Roanoke, VA
Mountain Lake Colloquium for Teachers of General Music

2013 April 4-6 Minneapolis, MN
Music EdVentures International Conference

2013 Jan 24-25 Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado MEA
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children
  • Why Do We Do That?: Questioning Five Common Practices in Elementary Music Education
  • RhymePlay: Playing with Children and Mother Goose

2012 Aug 29 New York, NY
Education Through Music Professional Development Day
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children

2012 July 10 Corfu, Greece
International Society for Music Education: Early Childhood Commission
  • Why Do We Do That?: Questioning Five Common Practices in Elementary Music Education

2012 Mar 9 Joplin, MO
Missouri Southern State University
  • Playful Music Teaching: Finding the Joy in Music and Kids
  • Getting Along: Reframing and Reconciling Differences with Colleagues
  • Being Assertive: Five Levels of Responsiveness

2012 Mar 1-3 Vancouver, BC
Music EdVentures International Conference
  • Why We Do What We Do in SongWorks: Melody, Rhythm & Beat
  • Why We Do What We Do in SongWorks: Patterns, Sequence & Notation
  • Playing with the Classics and Children

2012 Feb 16-18 Columbus, OH
Ohio MEA
  • Getting Along: How to Reframe Difficult Moments with Colleagues, Parents, Students, Administrators
  • Playing with the Classics: Music Masterworks for Children

2012 Feb 9 San Antonio, TX
Texas MEA
  • Why Do We Do That?: Questioning Five Common Practices in Elementary Music

2012 Jan 21 Fort Wayne, IN
Indiana MEA
  • Singing to Read and Reading to Sing: Early Literacy in Early Childhood
  • Ouch!: Hurting in Professional Settings

2011 Nov 16-18 Lincoln, NE
Nebraska MEA
  • Playing with Classics: Music Masterworks for Children
  • Why Do We DO That?: Questioning Five Common Practices in Elementary Music
  • Ouch! Hurting in Professional Settings
  • Speak for Your Self!: Being Your Best in Difficult Situation

2011 Sept 17 Minneapolis, MN
Music EdVentures, Inc. Workshop
  • SongWorks for Children