On March 26-28, 2009 the School of Music and the Department of Education at Ithaca College will be sponsoring a very exciting conference for educators and others interested in improving the effectiveness of instruction and school experience for youth of color. The conference will present keynote addresses and workshops by nationally recognized experts, effective classroom teachers, and others for the purpose of helping music educators and regular classroom teachers become more skilled and successful in their work with youth and families of color.
The conference will emphasize the specifics of successful, culturally responsive instruction. Music teachers will learn how to program culturally empowering music and to build a safe and supportive community of learners and performers in the K-12 classroom and other relevant settings. Academic classroom teachers will learn how to create engaging, multicultural, interdisciplinary, and critically reflective learning experiences for the purpose of achieving academic success and constructive identity development. The conference is designed to help educators integrate the arts and academics to achieve exciting, powerful education.
