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. 

  1. 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. 
  1. 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] 
  1. 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 
  1. 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/ 
  1. 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— 

o Community-based/hip hip pedagogy/place o Incarcerated populations o Anti-capitalism dialog for MEJ o Quality of curriculum for exceptional learners—Impact of professional 

development? o Culturally responsive pedagogy—gathering teaching strategies/materials o 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. 

  1. 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 Stephen Eubanks, U. Missouri, Columbia scemrb@mail.missouri.edu Seth Glabman, U of Maryland sglabman@umd.edu Ruth Gurgel, Kansas State Univ. ruthgurgel4@gmail.com Juliet Hess, Syracuse jlhess@syr.edu Adam Kruse, MSU-headed to U. Illinois kruseaj@gmail.com Danelle Larson, Eastern Illinois dlarson@eiu.edu Joyce McCall, Arizona State joyce.mccall99@gmail.com Connie McKoy, UNC Greensboro clmckoy@uncg.edu Bryan Nichols, U. Akron bnichols@uakron.edu Joshua Palkki, Michigan State josh.palkki@gmail.com Jaclyn Paul, Texas Tech University Jaclyn.f.paul@ttu.edu Joshua Renick, NYC Dept of Education dr.jsrenick@gmail.com Christopher Roberts, U. of Washington cr777@uw.edu Kathy Robinson, University of Alberta krio@ualberta.ca Karen Salvador, U. of Michigan, Flint ksalvado@umflint.edu Colleen Sears, The College of New Jersey colleen.sears@tcnj.edu Dan Shevock, Penn State DJS541@psu.edu Raychl Smith, Minnesota State, Moorehead smithraychl@gmail.com Amanda Soto, U. Idaho asoto@idaho.edu Amy Spears, Florida Atlantic spearsa@fau.edu Mackie Spradley, Dallas ISD TCU Center for Public Ed mvspradley@gmail.com Brian Sullivan, University of Illinois bmsulli@illinois.edu Judith Sullivan, Tennessee Tech jasullivan@tntech.edu Darrin Thornton, Penn State dhtz@psu.edu Jason D. Thompson, Northwestern jdthompson@u.northwestern.edu Jose Torres, University of North Texas jose.torres@unt.edu 

Appendix B Committee to Draft Response to NAfME Strategic Plan 

Listed in order from the sign-in sheet: Connie McKoy, Chair clmckoy@uncg.edu Jose Torres jose.torres@unt.edu Joshua Resnick dr.jsresnick@gmail.com Judith Sullivan Tennessee Tech jasullivan@tntech.edu Colleen Sears colleen.sears@tcnj.edu Michael Albertson mpalbertson@gmail.com Loneka Battiste wilkinsonbattiste@hotmail.com Juliet Hess jlhess@syr.edu Joshua Palkki josh.palkki@gmail.com Kathy Robinson krio@ualberta.ca Amy Spears spearsa@fau.edu Maggie Corfield Maggie_corfield-adams@mcpsmd.org Gregory Drane gad157@psu.edu