Wednesday, May 08, 2013Exhibitors contracted for our 2014 Professional Development Clinic-Conference may submit an application for a Product Showcase Session--a one-hour presentation of your organizations' products or services open to the general membership and listed in the conference program along with the other conference sessions.
Deadline is June 1, 2013, and you must have already submitted an
Exhibitor Contract.
read more ...The FMEA Awards Program offers several awards in
recognition of the efforts and accomplishments of active teachers, school administrators
and others who have made outstanding contributions to music education.
read more ...Looking to improve your guitar TEACHING skills? Looking to gain more knowledge of text/print resources? Looking to add guitar to your school? Looking to learn from veteran guitar teachers for 5 full days? Go to www.GuitarEduNet.org for application details and site locations for the 2013 NAfME/NAMM/GAMA sponsored Teaching Guitar Workshops.
read more ...School membership in the FSMA is required for participation in music performance assessments (MPAs) such as FBA, FOA, or FVA district and state concert or solo & ensemble MPA. Renewal statements have been sent to principals and bookkeepers of all current FSMA-Member Schools, for membership renewal for the 2013-2014 school year. Newly opening schools should fill out and submit the new school enrollment form. Existing schools that are not current FSMA members but will be participating in MPA activities for the 2013-2014 school year should call or email Val Anderson at val@flmusiced.org to re-activate and request an invoice/statement. Payment is due on
September 15, 2013. Purchase orders and check requisitions should be submitted early enough so that
actual payment is in our office before September 15.
read more ...The Center for Fine Arts Education (FMEA, FAEA, FSMA) will be sending strategic actions for you to take regarding key legislation. As you may know, the Fine Arts Bill HB 283 moved through committee last week. As this bill continues to move we will be targeting specific committee members by their constituents from our membership. When you receive an email from "
CFAE Advocacy: ACT NOW" please respond to the request immediately, as bills move very quickly at this time of the legislative session. We will update you on all relevant bills.
Music Performance Assessments (MPAs) are the interscholastic assessment performance events run by the component organizations of FMEA (FBA,FOA, and FVA) and sanctioned by FSMA. Schedules, programs, and results are available on the
Public Reports section of FSMA's MPA-Online system . Good Luck to all students and teachers in your upcoming district and state MPAs.
Visit our Advocacy page for new resources to print out and distribute regarding the benefits of arts participation based on findings in our latest cohort study.
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