ILMEA UpdatesFall 2015

Year In Review

Since last fall….

Fall Festivals 201424 Festivals in November 2014

21,446 Students Auditioned 10,185 Participated

New Board Members

Brayer Teague, State President Elect

Peter Carlin, District 2 President Elect

Jeremiah Kramper, District 8 President Elect

Returning Board Members Jacqueline Kelly-McHale, MTE Division VP

Jeremy Marino, Orchestra Division VP

Board of Directors Mark Corey, State President Brayer Teague, State President Elect Deborah Shofner, State Past

President Brian Covey, District 1 President Sarah Reckmeyer, District 2 President Michael Allen, District 3 President Debbie Johnson, District 4 President Chris Gunn, District 5 President Nathan Hoke, District 6 President Patrick Barnett, District 7 President Nicole Oberg, District 8 President

Board of Directors, Part 2 Jake Stouffer, District 9 President Kris Cox, Band Div. Vice President Curtis Fischer-Oelschlaeger, Chorus Div.

Vice President Donna Zawatski, EGM Div. Vice President Craig Roselieb, Jazz Div. Vice President Lori Evenhouse, JSGM Div. Vice President Justin Sisul, Music Educator Development

Div. Vice President Jacqueline Kelly-McHale, Music Teacher

Education Div. Vice President Jeremy Marino, Orchestra Div. Vice President

Publications

2015 Spring IMEJ

2015 Winter IMEJ

2015 Fall IMEJ

IMEC 2015Over 10,000 people attended the Illinois Music Education Conference in 2015.

Professional Development Sing, Dance, Create and Play! District Festival Professional

Development Summer Learning Series PD given through ROEs Illinois Music Education Conference

Arts Education Advocacy Day

April 29, 2015 Arts Alliance Illinois, Illinois Art Education

Association and ILMEA partnered to bring over 75 people to Springfield

Morning training on advocacy Afternoon meetings at the State House

Year 3 is tentatively April 12, 2016

Policy/Procedure Manual Summer Board of Directors Meeting 2015,

the BOD examined all written policies and procedures for ILMEA student events

Policies and procedures were spread between multiple documents, sometimes at odds with one another

BOD took all this source material and combined everything into one

Each line was discussed by the BOD Full document available at

www.ilmea.org/about/policies

New Policies/Procedures

Based on the BOD’s examination, there were several adjustments made to the student events policies/procedures, descriptions of those follow.

All changes are to be fully implemented by the 2016-2017 school year, with the exception of the membership requirement which goes into effect for 2017-2018

Audition Policies In an effort to reduce non-music variables,

districts will be implementing blind auditions

For vocal auditions, ranges will now be used to determine voice part

All ILMEA judges are now being paid from a uniform scale

Districts are encouraged to use judges from outside the district whenever possible

All-State Eligibility

Sophomores from all performing divisions – band, chorus, orchestra and jazz – will now be eligible for All-State Selection

This begins next festival season for All-State 2017

District Representatives To increase the number of volunteer

leaders in ILMEA, each District Representative will serve one year as rep-elect with a two-year term as representative to follow

Each rep can be elected for one additional two-year term before leaving the office for at least one election cycle. This would result in the rep serving for four years total

District Representatives, Part 2

Each district will only have one official rep for each division and level (for example, middle school orchestra)

In addition to the rep, it is strongly encouraged that the district have multiple volunteer leaders to assist in planning and production of the auditions and the festivals

ILMEA/NAfME Membership

Membership in a professional association is an important aspect of professional growth. ILMEA believes strongly that music educators that take part in our programs should be dues-paying members. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year, all educators that nominate students for ILMEA programs must be members of ILMEA/NAfME.

Looking Ahead… to the future

2015 Election November 1 – November 22 Vote online through Survey and Ballot

Systems Link sent via email to ILMEA/NAfME Active,

Active Spouse and Retired members Contact Darcy Nendza, Executive Director

at dnendza@ilmea.org regarding missing ballots or questions on the election

Candidates for 2015 Band Division VP

Brian Covey Philip Whaley

EGM Division VP Rachel Aupperle Manju Durairaj

Jazz Division VP Jim Kull Craig Roselieb

District 5 President Courtney Leach

District 6 President Melissa Gustafson-

Hinds Alyssa Cudney Jackie Siddle

More Information at www.ilmea.org!

Bylaw Change Request The Board of Directors has approved a

request to change the bylaws. This change would remove “Vice” from the titles of the Division Vice Presidents. If passed, ILMEA would then have District Presidents and Division Presidents.

2016 IMEC Opening Night Concert: Cantus Full schedule of content-specific Professional

Development Administrator Track Sessions Mock Interviews Resume Reviews All-State Selected Ensembles Composition Track Future Music Educators Seminar Performing ensembles from around Illinois NEW! All-State Elementary Chorus

Core Arts Standards ISBE and the Arts Alliance Illinois are

chairing an examination of the National Core Arts Learning Standards aimed at recommending to the State Board of Education updated learning standards in arts education

ILMEA is represented on the Steering Committee and Music Working Group of this project

Proposed music standard draft is available at www.ilmea.org/standards

Summer Learning Series 2016 June 21, 22, and 23, 2016

Moved earlier into the summer to avoid school conflicts

Sites announced at the IMEC!

Questions?

stateoffice@ilmea.org