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Click here to become a NYSSMA Member.
If you would like to pay by check, please scroll to the bottom of this page and download a membership form. 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: - Winter Conference
- Summer Conference
- Regional Workshops
- 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
Your membership also supports the following activities which benefit you, your students, your school and music education in New York State. STUDENT ACTIVITIES: - 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)
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