Northern California Association of Kodály Educators
2023-24 Workshop Season

Inspiring Students to Create in the Music Classroom: Inquiry, Standards, and Active Music Making. How can we encourage more student-centered learning in the music classroom while meeting standards and inspiring lifelong learning? Learn to use an inquiry-driven approach to meet (and exceed) standards - that keeps active music making at the center of student learning.  In this workshop, participants will experience a create-focused inquiry lesson that can be applied or modified for use across grade levels in music classrooms.  Leave with ideas for immediate classroom implementation as well as an understanding of how to create your own inquiry-based lessons in the music classroom that keep students actively engaged in “music-ing.”  This workshop will use standards as a springboard and draw on inquiry, backward design, and concept-based tools and strategies for intentional curriculum design.

Missed the workshop?

View the Zoom recording by purchasing access by April 13, 2024. Zoom recording available until April 22, 2024.

Nyssa Brown, Clinician
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Workshop: 9:30am-12:30pm (Pacific Time)
Offered on Zoom and/or recording only*
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* The Zoom link will be sent 24-48 hours prior to the workshop. A video recording will be made available to all registered participants for two weeks following the workshop.

This online workshop is a collaboration between NCAKE, the Kodály Association of Southern California, the Arizona Kodály Teachers Society, and the Kodály Music Educators of Central California.

*** Special Discounted Workshop Prices! ***

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Registration Rates
- $30 NCAKE/OAKE members**
- $40 non-members
- $20 retiree
- Free for Full-time students (registration required)
** Reciprocal pricing honored for any professional music affiliation (please indicate when registering)!

Contact info@NCAKE.org if you are interested in attending, but would like assistance with the registration fee.

Your support allows NCAKE to provide financial support for other initiatives (i.e. providing assistance for book club materials and scholarships for continuing education).

Contact us! info@NCAKE.org
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Nyssa Brown is an international arts education consultant with Music Ed Forward who works with arts educators around the globe to build student-centered, concept-driven, inquiry-based music curriculum. With 25 years of teaching experience with both students and adults, Nyssa empowers learners of all ages to build on their current knowledge and envision new possibilities. 

Nyssa has 18 years of experience in elementary and secondary music classrooms, as well as teaching and leadership experience at the team, school, district, state, national and international levels.  Ms. Brown served on the writing committee for the National Core Arts Standards and is an Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Certified Trainer. She was one of ten finalists for 2004 Minnesota Teacher of the Year and received a prestigious Milken Educator Award in 2004 from the Milken Family Foundation. 

Passionate about teaching in a global context, Nyssa taught at American School of the Hague and the International School of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, The American Embassy School in New Delhi, India and in both Namibia and South Africa, through a fellowship offered by the Eastman School of Music's Umculo: The Kimberley Project. Nyssa is a faculty member of the Kodály Levels Courses at Indiana University and the University of St. Thomas. With a focus on strong relationships and collaborative processes, she aims to help transform students, teachers and communities through music education.

 To join OAKE and NCAKE, use the membership application on the OAKE web site.
Be sure to choose NCAKE for your chapter affiliation.
Reciprocal pricing honored for NCOASA members.