IVfME Webinar Series 2024-2025
Grant Writing 102: Writing Persuasive Proposals and Budgets
November 16, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. LaSaundra Belcher
Building on insights from our previous grant writing webinar, Grant Writing 101 – From Idea to Application this session will equip music educators with the skills to craft compelling grant proposals and precise budgets.
Participants will learn how to develop a persuasive project narrative, create an itemized budget, and articulate a powerful impact statement. By the end of this interactive session, attendees will be empowered to transform their draft outlines into polished applications ready for submission.
Dr. LaSaundra Belcher is an accomplished arts leader, consultant, and inventor (USPTO# 20140260902). She is the founder of Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra (WFCYO), a not for profit organization that provides expert orchestral instruction and free instruments to youth living in rural and under-resourced communities. As lead grant writer, Belcher quadrupled WFCYO’s budget by securing grants. Dr. Belcher is a Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women in Business scholar. She is also an alumnus of Sphinx LEAD (Leaders in Excellence, Arts & Diversity), a 2-year professional empowerment program designed to evolve the landscape of arts leadership. Belcher is Chair of NAfME’s Council for Orchestra Education, where she assists with implementing diversity initiatives.
Belcher is in demand as a speaker and guest clinician. Previous speaking engagements include Orchestra Headliner for NAfME’s Pacific Northwest Conference (2023), North Carolina Music Educators Association, Music Will Conference (2024), and the Connected Arts Networks (CAN). Previous conducting appointments include the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (2022 and 2023), Intercollegiate Music Association’s Orchestra, NAfME’s All National Honor Ensemble Symphony Orchestra, California Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) Honors Orchestra, and Washoe County School District’s All-State Orchestra. Belcher’s conducting engagements for 2024 include the All-Millard Orchestra Festival, Georgia All-State Orchestra, Minnesota All-State Orchestra, Montana All-State Orchestra, and Guilford County All-County Orchestra.
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Presenting Native American Music to Various Ages In Music Education
October 19, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Presenter: Michelle McCauley, M.M.E.
Learn the keys to presenting Native American music to various ages in music education. Know when to present Native American music, song, books, videos, etc., comfortably and accurately. Discover reliable Native American resources and use them immediately.
Michelle McCauley is a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and a music educator. She has a master’s degree in music education that she received from the University of Nevada, Reno. Michelle went to school on her reservation until the 8th grade and there she was part of the Natchez Dance Group where she learned Northern Paiute songs and dances. Throughout her life, Michelle has had her cultural music all the while she was learning and performing classical music. Going in and out of the classical and cultural music worlds is second nature to Michelle. One world requires written music notation and one does not. Both worlds have protocols that are specific to the communities.
Currently Michelle travels as a powwow dancer, performer, author, and music educator. Within all of these facets, Michelle’s culture is a big influence in how she delivers information and is much needed in today’s society of diversity. Michelle is dedicated to inspiring as well as educating music educators how to incorporate Native American music and cultural music into their classrooms.
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Universal Design for Learning for Inclusive Music Classrooms
September 14, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. Amanda Draper
Learn how to remove barriers to musical participation for students of all abilities in this webinar using the UDL framework.
This session will provide an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in music education. Dr. Draper will present a rationale for expansive music education spaces and ways to use the UDL framework in practice to remove barriers to musical participation for students of all abilities.
Dr. Amanda R. Draper is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Dr. Draper is also the director of the collaborative community music program The MusiColAbility Project at IU. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Coe College in Cedar Rapids IA and a master’s degree and PhD in music education from Northwestern University. She has presented regionally, nationally, and internationally and has articles published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and Music Educators Journal. Her academic interests include investigating musical experiences for diverse learners with a focus on music and autism research, expansive music education practices, Disability Studies in music, and teacher preparation for special music education.
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Resources from Recent IVfME Webinars
- Is It Worth It Rubric – from Jasmine Fripp, AKA The Passionate Black Educator
- Latin American Music for Young Wind Bands Handout – from Rubén Darío Gómez, DMA
- Choral Songs from Latin America – from Dr. Diana V. Sáez
- Hanacpachap – The first piece of vocal polyphony published in The Americas – from Dr. Diana V. Sáez
- Native American Resources – from Michelle McCauley, M.M.E.
Additional Resources for IVfME (Inclusive Vision for Music Education)
- Cook Ross Reports
- Multicultural Awareness Commission History
- Culturally Responsive Teaching by Dr. Connie McKoy
- Who Enrolls in High School Music?
- NCMEA Declaration of Intent
- Johnathan Hamiel President’s Message (See pp. 8-9)
- NCMEA Mentoring Program
- Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform
- Co-creating: students bring something in and the teacher ties it into the classroom (Jazzmone Sutton)
- Responding to Difference: Teaching Students How to Respond Internally to Something New (Jazzmone Sutton)
- “WOW, This is going to be awesome!”
- “This will be interesting”
- Take a Deep Breath
- VIDEOS: IVfME Webinar Series 2021-2022.
- VIDEO: Multiculturalism in the World of Chamber Music featuring Guest Lecturer Jonathan C. Kramer, Ph.D.
For more information, contact
IVfME Chair Lillie Allmond Harris
[email protected].