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What does NYSSMA membership offer you? Only 1/3 of the dues you pay to MENC/NYSSMA is allocated to NYSSMA and supports all of the activities listed below.  The remaining 2/3 portion of the dues is for MENC activities and programs.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

1. Winter Conference
2. Summer Conference
3. Regional Workshops
4. Adjudicator Training/Certification (Regular, All-State, Jazz, Major Organization)

PUBLICATIONS:

• NYSSMA Website
• School Music News
• NYSSMA Notes
• NYSSMA Manual
• Report on Music Education and the Middle School (1990)
• NYSSMA History Books (I & II)
• Using NYSSMA Evaluation Sheets In Portfolio/Performance Based Assessment Practices in Music Education (1995)
• Classroom Music Assessment Guide (1997)
• NYSSMA Guide to Advocacy: Fireman, Fireman Save our School Music Program (1997)

PRIVILEGES:

• Opportunity for Awards
• Perform in Albany during MIOSM
• Vote in NYSSMA Elections
• Access Job Bank
• Right to hold office
• Direct mailing of festival forms

• Sponsor Area All-State Festivals (16)
• Sponsor Conference All-State (900 students in eight performing groups)
• Solo and Small Ensemble Evaluation Festivals (77,000+ participants assessed)
• Major Organization Festivals (approximately 800 groups assessed)
• Eligibility for Eastern Division MENC performing groups
• Technology Student Composition Showcase

BENEFITS TO SCHOOLS:

• Presidential Citation Awards
• Festival and All-State plaques
• Area All-State participant logos, medals and pins
• Free job listings in the NYSSMA Job Bank

MUSIC EDUCATION

Support activities of Committees: (13+)

• Awards and Recognition (coordinates awarding various NYSSMA Awards)
• Classroom Music (professional development, regional workshops, and assessment)
• Coalition (advocacy materials, and regional help teams)
• Constitution (works to ensure that our constitution serves our members and purpose)
• Curriculum (curriculum development tied to NYS Learning Standards, and assessment)
• Finance (develops the budgets that service our members and their students)
• Government Relations (Albany, advocacy, contacts with government leaders, and sessions)
• Multi-Cultural Education (multicultural education and minority concerns)
• Resolutions (develops appropriate recognition for deserving parties)
• Rural Schools (professional development and rural concerns)
• Sectional Festival (adjudication, rules & regulations, sight singing, sheets, etc.)
• Technology in Music Education (professional development, web page, and student showcase)
• Urban Schools (professional development and urban concerns)

Activities of Other State Chairs: (38+)

• Assignor of Adjudicators (assignments to judge 77,000+ solos/small ens. and 800+ major org.)
• Band (All-State groups)
• Brass (professional development)
• Certification
• Chorus (All-State groups)
• Director of Adjudicators (organization of adjudicator training)
• Early Childhood (professional development)
• Elementary Summer Conference (professional development)
• Elementary Winter Conference (professional development)
• High School Music (professional development)
• Higher Education (professional development)
• Historian/Archivist (catalog and preserve historical items)
• Instrumental Jazz (professional development)
• Manual (a leveled music resource used in more than New York State)
• Marching Band (professional development)
• Marketing (making NYSSMA visible)
• Membership (Membership Directory, keeping us number one in the nation, and service to members)
• Middle/Junior High School Music (professional development)
• MIOSM (Albany concerts in March)
• Music Special Learners (professional development)
• Music Technology (professional development and the NYSSMA web page)
• Music Theatre (professional development)
• NYSMEA (maintain contact and assist with student activities to benefit our future music educators
• Orchestra (All-State groups)
• Parliamentarian (helping to ensure productive and proper meetings)
• Percussion (professional development)
• Piano (Professional development)
• Research (professional development)
• Retired Persons (professional development and volunteer programs)
• Stage Manager (conference stage management)
• Strings (professional development)
• Resident Coordinators (summer and winter)
• Tri-M (coordinate statewide activities)
• Vocal Jazz (professional development)
• Voice (professional development)
• Chaperones (ensuring a positive musical experience for over 900 high school students each year)
• Exhibitors/Industry (nurturing the relationship that benefits our membership and music industry)
• Woodwinds (professional development)

Maintain direct contact with and/or send representation to other professional organizations

• New York State Council of Educational Associations (State Education Department & Various others meet with representatives of education oriented professional associations such as ours)
• New York State School Boards Associations
• Council of Music Education Associations (our affiliates such as ACDA, NYSBDA, etc.)
• New York State Alliance for the Arts Education
• State Education Department
• New York State PTA

Assist with National and Eastern Division Activities and professional development.

Your membership supports NYSSMA Leadership Activities.

• Zone Representative Activities (newsletters, etc.)
• Communication with County Presidents (County Presidents meetings and supports their attendance at Albany Legislative Day)
• In direct contact with MENC and other State Leaders
• Communications with the Commissioner of Education, Board of Regent, Legislature, Governor, and other government and educational leaders
• NYSSMA Office (the center of all NYSSMA activities)
• Communications and information (keeping you informed)

2007/2008 NYSSMA Membership Form (pdf file - 493kb)
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