A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Mr. Scott Hedgecock  Southern Section President

We have entered our own March Madness!  Festival seasons are upon us, Musicals are looming on the horizon, several of our discipline areas in music are holding conferences and conventions, and our own State Conference is just around the corner! Sacramento will be alive with the sounds of music, education, and a collegial atmosphere when it hosts our annual State Conference next week.  I hope that you have made plans to attend.  Please visit the state website, www.calmusiced.com, and check out the wonderful line-up of sessions being presented.  The State Board has worked very hard to bring you a relevant balance of informative sessions, enjoyable concerts, and honor groups to help us all celebrate our craft of Music Education in California.

To echo the words of Jeff Jenkins, our State President.... "these are tough time for music education. But we can get through them when we support each other".  

It is time for us to all plan to come together in Sacramento, to share our stories about our work, the state of music in our various districts, 

and a plan to join together to continue to fight for what we believe in: Music in Education! Music: One Goal, One Voice is the theme of the conference.

There are many reasons to attend as a Southern Section member: Celebrate our Outstanding Music Educator Vance Miller, at the Awards Dinner along with several other southern California honorees including:

Larry Stoffel,  College/University Educator Award

Merryl Nelson, Choral Award

Vance Miller. So. Section

Jodi Neilson,  So. Border Section

Katherine Nakamura, Legislative Award

Mary Salas,  Legislative Award

Nick Rail Music, Industry Award

Karen Lawrence, Elementary Music Specialist Award

Refugio Rodriguez,  Classroom Teacher Award

John Flood,  Multicultural Award

Outstanding sessions and performances will be presented by our colleagues from southern California:

Karen Calhoun,  Norwalk

Darlene Kretchmere,  CSU LA

George DeGraffenreid,  CSU LA

Chris Peterson, CSU Fullerton

Janine Riveire,  Cal Poly Pomona

Steve Acciani,  Diamond Bar

Deborah Mitchell,  CSU Long Beach

Jean-Sebastien Vallee, University of Redlands

Tina Peterson

Russ Sperling, San Diego

Dennis Siebenaler, CSU Fullerton

Mary Purdy, Canyon HS

Sara Maloney,  

Nan McDonald,  San Diego State

Larry Stoffel, CSU Northridge

You will also have the opportunity to cast your ballots for the next Executive Board at the conference.  The outcome of the election will be announced at the conference.

There is still time to join us!  Invest in yourself as an educator, a musician, and a person of passion for the art form you love; Music.  Please join us with your voice in our common goal for Music Education in California by attending the CMEA State Conference, Music: One Goal, One Voice, from March 11-13 in Sacramento.

See you there,

Scott Hedgecock

CMEA SS President

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CMEA  SOUTHERN SECTION and MENC MEMBERSHIP

Often many of us belong to musical organizations specific to our teaching expertise and forget about the importance of a national association of music educators. ACDA, SCSBOA, SCVA, Orff and Kodaly Organizations, ASTA, NATS, CBDA are all important and help us get through the daily logistics of our various arts. When you join MENC (the National Association for Music Education) you are connected to a nationwide network of music educators all helping to elevate the importance of music in our nation's schools. And, you receive invaluable information via two national journals, Music Educator's Journal and Teaching Music.

To become a member of MENC/CMEA, go directly to www.MENC.org. 

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NOTE:  If you, as a Southern Section member, do not receive our emails prior to the State Conference, please contact me with your updated email address.  There are always some emails that come back to us, and we’d like to be able to reach everyone with all of our important information.  You can send updated email info to Scott Hedgecock, SS CMEA President, at Scotchdir@aol.com.  Please put “CMEA EMAIL UPDATE” in the subject area.

CMEA is currently in the process of asking all members to fill out a survey.  Please take the time to do so, as your feedback is vitally important to the organization, both at the state and section levels.  You will find the survey online at www.calmusiced.com.  There are several ways in which you can take the survey. 

Our Southern Section leadership is looking to our own future with plans for brining back our Section Conference next year.  We are currently securing a site and will have more information about the event on our website prior to the end of the traditional school year in June.  If you have any suggestions regarding our Section Conference, please send them to Scott Hedgecock, Southern Section President, at Scotchdir@aol.com. Your ideas and input are important to us.