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Workshop 2024 Video Recording Session Topics

Topics and Presenters

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Length of presentation is indicated in (minutes). Timing marked "TBD" — to be determined.

Chamber Music

  • Chamber Music Classes: Values, How to Coach, Rep, and All the Rest! — Debbie Price (58)
  • Coaching Chamber Music: Cueing and Expression — Debbie Price (150)
  • Using Chamber Approaches to Teach Expressiveness — Frank Diaz (46)

Classroom Management

  • Classroom Management — Julie Ellis and Renee Wang (50)
  • Hey, QUIT PLUCKING! Classroom Management Tips and Strategies for the String Teacher — Renee Wang  (58)

Conducting

  • All In: What They Didn't Teach Me in Conducting Class — Mark Laycock (52)
  • Best Practices for Score Study — Mark Laycock (60)
  • Conducting Masterclass — Mark Laycock (15)
  • Conducting Tune-Up: Review, Reinforce, and Refine Basic Technique — Mark Laycock (40)
  • Making Your Conducting Better: Clarity, Control, and Musicianship in the Conductor's Gesture — Miriam Burns (47)

Copyright

  • Being Able to Sleep at Night: Copyright Compliance — James Weaver (35)

Creativity and Improvisation

  • A Vision for the Future of Strings in America — Mark Wood (50)
  • Improvisation Made Easy — Mark Wood (50)
  • Improvisation: Getting Started and Keeping it Going — Bob Gillespie and Tanner Otto (86)
  • Teaching Improvisation: Classical, Practical Approaches — Bob Gillespie (TBD)

Diversity and Inclusion

  • Creating an Exceptional Place for Special Learners in your String Class — Stephen Benham (50)
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching — Rebecca MacLeod (62)
  • English Language Learners in the School Orchestras — Renee Wang (50)
  • Successfully Creating and Teaching School Orchestras in Title 1 Schools — David Pope (52)
  • Teaching Strings in Urban Schools — Karen Koger (50)
  • Values and Best Practices for Encouraging and Fostering Diversity in the School Orchestra — Frank Diaz (56)

Fundraising

  • Going for the Money: Fundraising — Mark Sholl (46)

Future Teachers

  • How You Become the Best Leader of your Program — Bob Gillespie (50)
  • Music Educators: Shepherding Tomorrow's Leaders to Artistry — Tim Lotzenheiser (75)
  • Preparing the Next Generation of Successful String Teachers: Building College and Career Readiness and String Students as Young as Middle School! — Blair Williams (48)

Health and Wellness

  • In It to Win It: Avoiding Burnout and Enjoying a Lifetime of Teaching — Bob Phillips (50)
  • Integrating Best Practice for Healthy Music-Making in your Rehearsal — Kathleen Horvath (46)
  • Introduction to Body Mechanics for Musicians: Understanding Physical Technique: Parts 1 and 2 — Kathleen Horvath (50)
  • Life 101 — Brian Cole (50)
  • Sustainability and Happiness: How to Teach your Heart Out Without Burning Out — Margaret Selby    (TBD)
  • Values and Best Practices for Maintaining Personal Wellness in the Life of a String Teacher" — Frank Diaz (52)
  • We Need You! Keeping Joy in your Life and in your Teaching — Bob Gillespie (TBD)
  • Wellness in the Life of a String Teacher — Frank Diaz (52)

High School Orchestra

  • All About High School: Values, Curriculum, Music, Evaluating: Parts 1 and 2 — Jim Palmer (104)
  • High School Best Practices — Soo Han, Charles Loux, Matt Radspinner (150)
  • Making Your High School a Complete Program — Julie Ellis and Charles Laux (53)
  • The Advanced High School Orchestra Panel — Charles Laux, Chris Selby, Matt Radspinner (56)
  • The Values of the High-End School Orchestra — Matt Radspinner and Chris Selby (55)

Motivating Students

  • All In: Fostering Student Engagement — Mark Laycock (40)
  • Connecting and Reconnecting with Students — Brian Cole (60)
  • It's All About the Kids: Creating Positive Connections for a Lifetime — Brian Cole (50)
  • It's All Fun and Games! Creative Strategies to Motivate your Students — Erin Broadhurst, Sarah Given, Chris Lape (50)
  • Motivating Today's Kids: How they are Wired and How to Re—Wire Them — Sarah Ball (46)
  • Student Centered Teaching: Making It All About the Kids — Brian Cole (51)
  • Students Owning the Orchestra: Getting Them to Buy In — Julie Ellis (34)
  • The First Three Years: Creative Ways to Motivate Students and Buy In — Anna Radspinner (51)

Music

  • Breaking into Publishing — Erica Donahoe and Tanner Otto (50)
  • Choosing and Rehearsing the Best Concert Music to Achieve Musical Artistry — Chris Selby (45)
  • Choosing the Best Repertoire for your Orchestra — Bob Gillespie (50)
  • Pathways to Publishing — Andy Dabczynski and Sarah Siegler (TBD)
  • Rockin' Orchestra: Expanding Your School Orchestra through Today's Music — Shelby Montgomery (54)
  • Strategies and Resources for Selecting the Perfect Piece — David Pope (20)
  • The Best Rep for Full Orchestras in the Schools — Sandra Dackow (50)
  • The Next Best Music Resource: Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra, Volume 4 — David Pope (60)

Music Rehearsal Strategies

  • Advanced Orchestras: Finger Patterns for the High-End Player — Scott Laird (50)
  • Approach, Arrive, Depart: Strategies for Developing Ensembles — Scott Laird (TBD)
  • Best Practices: Rehearsing Winds and Percussion in a Full Orchestra — Sandra Dackow (70)
  • Choosing and Rehearsing the Best Concert Music to Achieve Musical Artistry — Chris Selby (45)
  • Computational Thinking and the Orchestra Classroom: The Model, Lesson Planning, Strategies, and Advocacy — Scott Laird (TBD)
  • Creativity in the Orchestra Classroom — Heather Lofdahl (TBD)
  • Dance to the Music: Exploring Effective Techniques to Energize your Orchestra and Chamber Groups — Debbie Price (TBD)
  • Designing Effective Warmups  — Chris Selby (50)
  • Efficiency in Rehearsal — Miriam Burns (TBD)
  • Expressiveness in the School Orchestra — Bob Gillespie (50)
  • From Rehearsal to Home Practice: Tips and Strategies — Charles Laux    (55)
  • Full Orchestra in the Schools — Sandra Dackow (70)
  • How Do I Count It and When Do I Play It? — Stephen Benham (40)
  • Integrating Best Practice for Healthy Music—Making in your Rehearsal — Kathleen Horvath (46)
  • Intonation — Bob Gillespie (150)
  • Making it a Habit: Transferring Playing Skills from One Piece to Another — Scott Laird (60)
  • Open String Tuning — Chris Selby (50)
  • Playing in Tune is Not Magic: Exercises and Rehearsal Strategies that Dramatically Improve String Ensemble Intonation — Chris Selby (TBD)
  • Preparing Your Orchestra for Adjudication — Charles Laux (TBD)
  • Rhythms and Rushing: Effective Strategies for Teaching Students to Read Rhythms and Listen Across the Ensemble — Chris Selby (TBD)
  • Right Rhythms at the Right Time in the Right Place — Stephen Benham (33)
  • Sharp? Flat? In-tune? Teaching Students to Tune Independently — John-Rine Zabanal and Chris Lape (42)
  • Teaching Children How to Count — Chris Selby (50)
  • Teaching Students to Tune Independently — Presenter to be determined
  • The Habit Loop and Applications to Rehearsal Strategy — Scott Laird (TBD)
  • Warm-ups that Develop Outstanding Orchestras and Materials — Bob Phillips (41)

My Importance

  • Is What You Do as a String Educator important for the World? YES! — Bob Gillespie (45)

Pedagogy

  • Beginning Bass Pedagogy — Doug Wright and Matt Radspinner (290)
  • Beginning Bass Technique — Matt Radspinner (290)
  • Beginning Cello Pedagogy — Julie Ellis (180)
  • Beginning Cello Technique — Matt Hawley (120)
  • Beginning Violin and Viola Technique — Bob Gillespie (165)
  • Beginning Violin/Viola Pedagogy — Bob Gillespie (180)
  • Beginning/Intermediate Cello Pedagogy — Matt Hawley (235)
  • Beginning/Intermediate Violin/Viola Pedagogy — Bob Gillespie (325)
  • Intermediate Bass Pedagogy — Doug Wright and Matt Radspinner (280)
  • Intermediate Bass Technique — Matt Radspinner (280)
  • Intermediate Cello Technique — Matt Hawley (105)
  • Intermediate Violin and Viola Technique — Bob Gillespie (160)
  • Intermediate Violin/Viola Pedagogy — Bob Gillespie (180)
  • Quick Fixes: Strategies and Solutions for Solving Students' Common Playing Problems — Bob Gillespie (72)

Program Development

  • Best Practices for Working WITH your Administration — Mark Sholl (40)
  • Building a Culture of Excellence — Tim Lotzenheiser (68)
  • Building and Creating the 21st-Century Orchestra: Technology, Music, and Step-by-Step — Cory Zilisch (56)
  • Developing Community Support – Brian Cole (54)
  • Divided by Section but United in Harmony: Making your Class a Community — Shelby Montgomery (48)
  • Empowering your Program: Advocacy and Community Engagement — Brian Cole (40)
  • Energizing and Creating Growth in an Existing Program — Tanner Otto and Angela Santangelo (TBD)
  • Making a Life for the Violist in the School Orchestra Program — Blair Williams (42)
  • Moving a Good Orchestra Program to the Next Level — Anna Radspinner and Matt Radspinner (68)
  • Rebuilding Your Program After COVID — Brian Cole (35)
  • The Road Map for your Program: The Updated 2021 ASTA String Curriculum — Stephen Benham (50)
  • Winning Students Over When You are the New Teacher — Charles Laux (52)
  • Wisdom Through the Ages: What I have Learned that Works and Does Not — JulieAnn Bernard (TBD)
  • Wisdom: Reflections on What I have Learned as a String Teacher — Jim Palmer (47)

String Instrument Repair

  • Funding and Selecting Instruments for Use in your Orchestra Program — Baroque Violin Shop (TBD)
  • Instrument Fleet Maintenance — The Loft Violin Shop (TBD)
  • Instrument Repair Labs — Baroque Violin Shop (280)
  • Strings 101: No Strings Attached! — The Loft Violin Shop (38)

Student Assessment

  • Assessment Practices for 21st-Century Students — Charles Laux (57)

Student Recruitment and Retention

  • Connecting and Reconnecting with Students — Brian Cole (60)
  • Experts in Recruiting and Retention: How to Get it Done — Bob Phillips, Brian Cole, Anna Radspinner, James Weaver (65)
  • Getting Them and Keeping Them: It’s What it's All About! — Brian Cole (TBD)
  • Rebuilding your Program After COVID — Brian Cole (36)
  • Recruiting and Rebuilding Post-Pandemic — Bob Phillips (44)
  • Student Engagement — Brian Cole (38)

Teaching Strings in Classes

  • All Things Middle School: Best Practices (Survival Techniques for Students and Teachers) — Sarah Ball (47)
  • Beyond Beginners: Terrific Tips and Rehearsal Strategies for Second Year Students — Becky Bush (51)
  • Getting it Done: The Art of Teaching a LARGE Heterogeneous String Class — Bob Phillips (65)
  • Perfecting the Art of the Beginning Orchestra Class — Margaret Selby (TBD)
  • Teaching Beginners: Getting Them Started Right Best Practices — Becky Bush (54)
  • Teaching Second Year Students: How and What to Teach Best Practices — Anna Radspinner (45)
  • The First Three Years: Creative Ways to Motivate Students and Buy In — Anna Radspinner (51)

Technology

  • Bringing COVID Technology into the Love Orchestra Class — Charles Laux (56)
  • Building an Electric Orchestra at your School — Cory Zilisch (55)
  • Empowering the Next Generation of School Orchestra Composers: Motivation, Technology, and Student Support — Cory Zilisch (76)
  • Plug-in Your Orchestra — Cory Zilisch (150)
  • Teachers and Students as Recording Engineers! Incorporating Music Technology into your Curriculum — Tanner Otto (45)
  • Technology and App Showcases — Erin Broadhurst (105)
  • Technology Lab for Teaching Strings — Erin Broadhurst (150)
  • Tracks and Loops: Creating Backing Tracks and Covers — Tanner Otto (45)
  • Turn your Camera On! Teaching Strings Online — Rebecca MacLeod (52)
  • User-Friendly: Creating a Play-Along Video — Anna Radspinner (52)
  • Where to Clip? Hands-on Video Editing Lab — Matt Kinnear (68)

TOTAL: 137 video sessions with 193 hours of content


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