NC Music Educator Winter 2017

Notes from the Executive Director
Pat Hall
Welcome new NCMEA Section
Chairs and District Presidents!
At the NCMEA board meeting at the close of the 2016
Professional Development Conference, the following
section chairs, district presidents and committee chairs
took the oath of office.
Band Section Chair: Rodney Workman
Director of Bands, Central Davidson HS, Lexington
Band Section Delegate: Jamie Bream
Director of Bands, Spring Hill Middle School, Laurinburg
Collegiate President: Emily Lott
Choral Music Education, UNC
Greensboro School of Music
Elementary Section Chair:
Janet Berry
Music Teacher, WA Young Elementary
School, Morganton
High School Choral Chair:
Eddie Adams
Chorus Director, Millbrook High
School, Raleigh
Higher Education: Dr.
Cynthia Wagoner
Music Education Faculty, ECU
School of Music
Jazz Section Chair: Keith Grush
Band Director, Mount Pleasant Middle School, Mt. Pleasant
Jazz Section Delegate: Marjorie Harrison
Director of Bands, Broughton High School, Raleigh
MS Choral Chair: Catherine Butler
Chorus Teacher, Southwest Guilford HS, High Point
Orchestra Section: Sarah Russell
Strings Teacher, Providence Day School, Charlotte
District 2, Vickie Whitfield
John Chavis Middle School, Cherryville
District 4, Tonya Allison
Marvin Ward Elementary, Winston-Salem
District 6, Kristen McGuirk
Collinswood Language Academy, Charlotte
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Just one of the many fantastic sessions at the Professional
Development Conference.
District 12, Angela Sessoms
Southwest Edgecombe High School, Pinetops
District 14, Hillary Goodson-Spear
White Oak High School, Jacksonville
Technology Chair, Howard “Howie” Ledford
Weaver Academy, Greensboro
We have deep gratitude for the section chairs and district
presidents rotating off the Board. Over the last two years their
accomplishments include:
• Providing outstanding professional
development sessions and clinics
for our conference, resulting in a
record number of attendees.
• Completing a very successful
membership recruitment campaign
that won the NAfME Excellence in
Membership Award.
• Increasing funding for NCMEA
Collegiate scholarships.
• Expanding the Mentoring Program.
• Increasing our advocacy efforts by:
– Sponsoring Arts Day in Raleigh;
– Allocating funds for collegiate members to attend the
NAfME Hill Day Collegiate Summit in Washington D.C.;
– Advocating for the passage of the new Every Student
Succeeds Act (ESSA);
– Participating in ESSA stakeholder meetings, making
sure music education is an important part of the state
ESSA plan; and
– Approving a new 2017 – 2020 NCMEA Strategic Plan.
There are many new opportunities and challenges as we
work together to advance music education in North Carolina.
I look forward to working with the new NCMEA Board of
Directors!