Processing an Integrated Approach to Music, Movement and Language Processing an Integrated Approach to Music, Movement and Language A video presentation focused on improving language skills among ESL students while acquiring music and movement skills ACEMM’s… Read More »
Why ACEMM Matters: The Power of Multiplication With the holidays upon us, we find ourselves in a time of reflection of past, present and future. We gather with loved ones to give thanks for the blessings our lives have brought us. We celebrate living in the moment with festivals of light and giving, and we dedicate ourselves to renewal and hope with the promises of a new year and a bright future. In advance of #GivingTuesday, we wanted to share thoughts on why ACEMM matters from members of the ACEMM Community. As you reflect on your own blessings and visions for the future, we thank you for your support of ACEMM.
Contributing to a Better World: Project-Based Learning through Music, by K. Michelle Lewis Come along on a journey with second graders who were motivated to help others halfway across the world! Inspired by a children’s book, these students creatively brainstorm and collaborate to provide clean drinking water for people in Africa. In this article, recent Spotlight Award recipient K. Michelle Lewis explains how to use a project-based learning model to empower students to explore both music and solve real-world concerns, and how to align such a project to the National Core Arts Standards. ACEMM invites you to read “Contributing to a Better World: Project-Based Learning through Music”!
Be Our Guest! Exploring Vaughan Williams through Kitchen Utensils! A food-themed exploration of Vaughan Williams’ “March Past of the Kitchen Utensils” through movement and play! YOU’RE INVITED! As educators who use movement to initiate music learning, we… Read More »
A New Challenge – the Schuhplattler! The Schuhplattler: a German Folk Dance About the Schuhplattler The Schuhplattler is an energetic and demanding Bavarian dance which is also popular in Austria and the German speaking… Read More »
The Ice Project – processes and ideas! Diana Hawley shares a timely article that will inspire you to plan ahead for those winter programs. This process has built-in opportunities for collaboration while engaging students in… Read More »
Bringing Yoga to our Students – Spotlight Corner When our classrooms are purposefully focused on the elemental, our students take the helm. Wide-eyes, rustling bodies, cheerful laughter. August is here and our students are back! This… Read More »
Mindfulness in the Classroom – How Not to Lose Your Mind! By Laura Stack ACEMM Spotlight Award Recipient, Summer, 2014 “Joey hit me.” “I have to go the bathroom.” “I never get a turn!” *A child taps on… Read More »
Early Childhood Music Education – A Lasting Value Martha Glaze Zook, ACEMM’s Fall, 2013 Spotlight Award recipient, invites us into her classroom at the Settlement Music School for a typical music and movement activity involving 4… Read More »
E. E. Cummings through the lens of Elemental Music and Movement Contributed by Ardith Collins, 2014 ACEMM Beacon Scholarship recipient E. E. Cummings’ profound simplicity speaks to the heart of elemental music, and his expressive typography is a joy… Read More »
