CDSJ Meeting Minutes April 11, 2014

Cultural Diversity and Social Justice SMTE ASPA Meeting Minutes April 11, 2014

List of those present included below as Appendix A.

Introduction of new co-facilitators

- Amanda Soto, University of Idaho, asoto@idaho.edu
- Karen Salvador, University of Michigan-Flint ksalvado@umflint.edu

It is our goal to be of service to the group, coordinating and facilitating projects the group wishes to undertake.

Update on ASPA projects from SMTE 2013

Hess, Kruse, Palkki, Shevock Fighting Institutional Marginalization in Music Education Presented Friday 3-3:50
McCall, Schmidt An Investigation of Cultural Capital and Musical Identity in Music Education Presented Friday 4-5:50.
Kelly-McHale, Salvador Music Teacher Educator Perceptions of Social Justice
[in progress]
Glabman, Social Justice Research List [will appear on ASPA website]

NAfME Strategic Plan

Connie McKoy raised a concern regarding the NAfME Strategic Plan. In 2009, this document included an action plan for diversifying the teaching force and for broadening content in music education. This language has disappeared from the current NAfME strategic plan.
Group consensus: this ASPA should write a public response. Dr. McKoy has agreed to chair a committee that will draft this response, circulate it for signatures from our group, and determine the appropriate person/method/venue/path to circulate this response for maximum productive impact.
Members of this committee are listed below as Appendix B

Website

https://smte.us/aspas/cultural-diversity-in-music-teacher-education/

Amanda Soto took us through the current website, solicited and collected written feedback regarding what the group would find helpful or useful. Additional feedback and suggestions for improvement of the website are welcomed.
The CDSJ ASPA will begin hosting monthly webinars. Members of the ASPA will present on a topic of interest for approx. 15 minutes, and then facilitate discussion for another 15 minutes. We envision this as a way for members to share expertise and continue to connect with one another. We could also use these webinars to workshop our ideas in progress. Please let us know if you are interested in presenting a webinar—Amanda Soto will coordinate.
Based on discussions in the workshop, we have also started a facebook page. Please join us… https://www.facebook.com/groups/852073408152822/

Work Session

Introductions of people in the group, including research interests.
Based on these introductions, attendees self-selected into work groups. The following may not present a comprehensive list of projects these work groups are pursuing. Please contact Karen Salvador if I missed yours—
- Community-based/hip hip pedagogy/place
- Incarcerated populations
- Anti-capitalism dialog for MEJ
- Quality of curriculum for exceptional learners—Impact of professional development?
- Culturally responsive pedagogy—gathering teaching strategies/materials
- Multicultural music—from the margins into the “mainstream”

Projects and groupings are fluid—if you are interested in joining or splintering, just keep us posted so we can update the website—and maybe add you to the webinar list.

For action:

response to strategic plan
projects listed above
propose/present/attend a webinar
engage in conversation/share resources on the FB page. Amanda will use posts from FB to build our list of resources on our ASPA website.
Please, when you see a great source [Includes videos, blogs, articles, books, infographics, etc] shoot them over to us on the FB page or by email [link or cite] to add to the webpage.
Also, if you have a teaching activity to share, please send a short paragraph and contact info.
Hope to see all of you at SMTE 2016 Recorded and submitted by Karen Salvador

Appendix A

Attendees CDSJ SMTE ASPA Meeting April 11, 2014

Alphabetical-last name:

Michael Albertson, Teacher’s College mpalbertson@gmail.com

Julie Bannerman, SUNY Potsdam bannerjk@potsdam.edu

Vincent Bates, Weber State Univ. vincentbates@weber.edu

Loneka Battiste, LSU-headed to U. Tenn. Knoxville wilkinsonbattiste@hotmail.com

Maggie Corfield, Montgomery Co. MD PS maggie_corfield-adams@mcpsmd.org

Gregory Drane, Penn State gad157@psu.edu

John Egger, University of Kentucky john.egger@uky.edu S

tephen Eubanks, U. Missouri, Columbia scemrb@mail.missouri.edu

Seth Glabman, U of Maryland sglabman@umd.edu