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Music Education Center of America

Spring 2024 Courses

Registration opens on December 15, 2023. A $15 Early Bird Discount will be applied until January 7.

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Percussion for the Non-Percussionist: Snare Drum

Spring 2024 MECA

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Drumset Methods for the Music Educator

Spring 2024 MECA

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A Complete Guide to Recruitment and Retention

Spring 2024 MECA

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Teaching the Middle School Band

Spring 2024 MECA

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Demystify the Slide: Playing & Teaching Trombone

Spring 2024 MECA

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Oboe/Bassoon for the Music Teacher

Spring 2024 MECA

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Six Habits to Grow a Successful Band

Spring 2024 MECA

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Band Arranging

Spring 2024 MECA

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Choral Arranging

Spring 2024 MECA

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Musical Theatre Preparation and Production

Spring 2024 MECA

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Help! What Do I Teach When? Designing or Revising a Standards-based Curriculum for K-8 Vocal Music Classes

Spring 2024 MECA

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Getting Ready to Read Harmony

Spring 2024 MECA

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Playing and Teaching Ukulele

Spring 2024 MECA

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Bass: Jazz for the Beginning Bassist

Spring 2024 MECA

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Beginning Jazz Improvisation

Spring 2024 MECA

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Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students: Book Study

Spring 2024 MECA

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Tonal Music Theory Review for Teachers, Composers, and Arrangers

Spring 2024 MECA

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Designing and Implementing a Master’s Project

Spring 2024 MECA

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Introduction to Graduate Study

Spring 2024 MECA

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High Needs, Monumental Successes

Spring 2024 MECA

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Making Key Changes: Refresh Your Program (Level 1)

Spring 2024 MECA

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Beyond Measure: “UnGrading” Your Music Classroom

Spring 2024 MECA

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

Spring 2024 MECA

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Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Spring 2024 MECA

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American Music History

Spring 2024 MECA

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Mastering Focus and Concentration in the Classroom

Spring 2024 MECA

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Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education and Beyond

Spring 2024 MECA

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Strings for the Non-String Player

Spring 2024 MECA

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Bass: Classical, Orchestral, and Solo Playing

Spring 2024 MECA

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Bass: Intro to Upright and/or Electric Bass for the Non-Bassist

Spring 2024 MECA

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Beginner Strings, Retention, and Community in the Orchestra

Spring 2024 MECA

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Paul Rolland String Pedagogy with Level 1 Endorsement

Spring 2024 MECA

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String Arranging

Spring 2024 MECA

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Visuals, Video, AI, Oh My! Canva for Education Does it All!

Spring 2024 MECA

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Logic Pro: The Next Step After GarageBand

Spring 2024 MECA

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Advanced Google Tools: Level II Certificate

Spring 2024 MECA

Get Them Singing! Choosing Music For Your Developing Choir

Spring 2024 MECA

Orff Instrument Repair & Maintenance

Spring 2024 MECA

Percussion Care & Repair

Spring 2024 MECA

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Teaching and Learning Using GarageBand in the Music Classroom

Spring 2024 MECA

Introduction to Soundtrap in the Music Classroom

Spring 2024 MECA

Fall 2023 Courses - Archive

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A Complete Guide to Band Repertoire: Selection and Planning

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A Complete Guide to Band Warm Ups

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Band Arranging

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Bass: Classical, Orchestral, and Solo Playing

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Bass: Intro to Upright and/or Electric Bass for the Non-Bassist

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Bass: Jazz for the Beginning Bassist

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Beyond Singing: A Blueprint for the Exceptional Choral Program

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Circles of Influence: What Great Teachers Learned from Other Great Teachers

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Creating a Student-Centered Music Curriculum

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Designing and Implementing a Master’s Project

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Exploration of Hand Drums for the Music Classroom

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Fretwire: A Comprehensive Method for Teaching Class Guitar

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Introduction to Jazz Piano

Introduction to Soundtrap in the Music Classroom

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Introduction to the Kodály Method

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Latin American Music in the General/Elementary Music Classroom

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Mariachi 101: Building a Successful Program

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Percussion for the Non-Percussionist: Mallets, Timpani & Accessories

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Playing and Teaching Ukulele

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Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The 77th Midwest Clinic: Experience and Retrospective

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The Beginner Jazz Rhythm Section: From Beginning to Swinging

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The Vocal Mechanism

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Tuba/Euphonium for the Music Teacher

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Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education and Beyond

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Visuals, Video, AI, Oh My! Canva for Education Does it All!

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You Get What You Give: Enrich your music program with Creativity, Compassion, and Fun

Summer 2023 Courses - Archive

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A Complete Guide to Band Warm-ups

Summer 2023 MECA

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Acquired Skills of Outstanding Ensemble Directors

Summer 2023 MECA

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Alternative String Styles: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing & Teaching

Summer 2023 MECA

An Intensive Master Class on Teaching from The Podium (Birch Creek, WI)

Summer 2023 MECA

Band Instrument Repair

Summer 2023 MECA

Basic String Instrument Repair

Summer 2023 MECA

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Bass: Classical, Orchestral, and Solo Playing

Summer 2023 MECA

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Bass: Intro to Upright and/or Electric Bass for the Non-Bassist

Summer 2023 MECA

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Bass: Jazz Bass for the Non-Bassist: Upright and Electric

Summer 2023 MECA

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Beginning Jazz Improvisation

Summer 2023 MECA

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Classroom Content as Concert Stage Repertoire: Best Practices for the Intermediate Orchestra

Summer 2023 MECA

Conn-Selmer Institute: A Retrospective

Summer 2023 MECA

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Conversational Solfege Levels 1 and 2

Summer 2023 MECA

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Culturally Responsive SEL in Your Choral/General Music Classroom

Summer 2023 MECA

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Demystify the Slide: Playing & Teaching Trombone

Summer 2023 MECA

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Design, Collaborate, Share: Canva For Music Educators

Summer 2023 MECA

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Developing Choirs: Laying the Foundation

Summer 2023 MECA

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Drive: Book Study and Classroom Application

Summer 2023 MECA

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Drumset Methods for the Music Educator

Summer 2023 MECA

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Every Child Can: A Suzuki Philosophy

Summer 2023 MECA

Exploration of Kodaly

Summer 2023 MECA

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Guitar for the Music Educator: Level 2

Summer 2023 MECA

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Guitar for the Music Educator: Level I

Summer 2023 MECA

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Infusing Creative Practices in the Orchestra Classroom and Private Studio

Summer 2023 MECA

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Inside GarageBand for the Mac

Summer 2023 MECA

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Logic Pro: The Next Step After GarageBand

Summer 2023 MECA

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Making Key Changes: Refresh Your Program (Level 1)

Summer 2023 MECA

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Making More Key Changes: Motivation for the Seasoned Educator (Level 2)

Summer 2023 MECA

Mariachi Workshops – Elgin, IL

Summer 2023 MECA

Mariachi Workshops – Las Vegas, NV

Summer 2023 MECA

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Multi-Cultural Techniques for Teaching Rhythm

Summer 2023 MECA

Music For All Summer Symposium Director Academy: A Retrospective (Ball State University at Muncie, IN)

Summer 2023 MECA

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Music Technology Moving Forward

Summer 2023 MECA

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Music, the Brain, and Learning

Summer 2023 MECA

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Musical Theatre Preparation and Production

Summer 2023 MECA

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Paul Rolland String Pedagogy with Level 1 Endorsement

Summer 2023 MECA

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Paul Rolland String Pedagogy with Level 2 Endorsement

Summer 2023 MECA

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Percussion for the Non-Percussionist: Snare Drum

Summer 2023 MECA

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Playing and Teaching Ukulele

Summer 2023 MECA

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Popular Music, Songwriting, and Technology in the K-12 Music Classroom

Summer 2023 MECA

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Producing Educational Media

Summer 2023 MECA

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Rebuilding Your Middle and Early High School Choral Program

Summer 2023 MECA

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Scoring for Band

Summer 2023 MECA

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Sharpening Your Organizational Skills to Increase Classroom Productivity

Summer 2023 MECA

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Sing, Say, Dance, and Play in A Responsive Way

Summer 2023 MECA

Smith Walbridge Directors Clinic: A Retrospective

Summer 2023 MECA

Smith Walbridge Drill Design Clinic: A Retrospective

Summer 2023 MECA

Teaching Guitar Workshop Levels

Summer 2023 MECA

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

Summer 2023 MECA

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Teaching World Music: The Music of the Eastern Hemisphere (South Korea, China, Japan, India, Russia, Israel, Turkey)

Summer 2023 MECA

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The Directed Listening Model

Summer 2023 MECA

World Music Drumming Workshops

Summer 2023 MECA

Late Spring 2023 Courses - Archive

Our late spring classes run for 6 weeks (March 27-May 5) for 2 credits each. Register today!

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Beginner Strings, Retention, and Community in the Orchestra

Late Spring 2023 MECA

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Children’s Literature and Poems in the Music Classroom

Late Spring 2023 MECA

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Songwriting Practicum for Teachers

Late Spring 2023 MECA

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Teaching and Learning Using GarageBand in the Music Classroom

Late Spring 2023 MECA

Spring 2023 Courses - Archive

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6 Habits to Grow a Successful Band

Spring 2023 MECA

Online

A Complete Guide to Band Warmups

Spring 2023 MECA

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Advanced Google Tools: Level II Certificate

Spring 2023 MECA

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American Music History

Spring 2023 MECA

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Arranging for the Young Jazz Band

Spring 2023 MECA

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Bass: Jazz Bass for the Non-Bassist, Upright and Electric

Spring 2023 MECA

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Bass: Upright and/or Electric Bass for the Non-Bassist

Spring 2023 MECA

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Beyond Measure: “UnGrading” Your Music Classroom

Spring 2023 MECA

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Designing and Implementing a Master’s Project

Spring 2023 MECA

Online

Drumset Methods for the Music Educator

Spring 2023 MECA

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General Music: There’s Nothing “General” About It!

Spring 2023 MECA

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Guitar for the Music Educator: Level I

Spring 2023 MECA

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Help! What Do I Teach When? Designing or Revising a Standards-based Curriculum for K-8 Vocal Music Classes

Spring 2023 MECA

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High Needs, Monumental Successes

Spring 2023 MECA

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Introduction to Graduate Study

Spring 2023 MECA

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Introduction to Jazz Piano

Spring 2023 MECA

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Introduction to Singing Contemporary Commercial Music: Application & Strategies

Spring 2023 MECA

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Keep On Going: Enjoy Teaching No Matter What!

Spring 2023 MECA

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Logic Pro: The Next Step After GarageBand

Spring 2023 MECA

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Mastering Focus and Concentration in the Classroom

Spring 2023 MECA

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Musical Theatre Preparation and Production

Spring 2023 MECA

National ACDA Conference Retrospective

Spring 2023 MECA

North American Brass Band Championships: A Retrospective

Spring 2023 MECA

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Paul Rolland String Pedagogy with Level 1 Endorsement

Spring 2023 MECA

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Percussion for the Non-Percussionist: Snare Drum

Spring 2023 MECA

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Playing and Teaching Ukulele

Spring 2023 MECA

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Solutions for the Jazz/Pep Band Guitarist

Spring 2023 MECA

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

Spring 2023 MECA

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Teaching World Music: The Music of the Southern Hemisphere (Africa, Australia, South America, The Caribbean Islands)

Spring 2023 MECA

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The Way of Music – Creating Sound Connections in the Music Room

Spring 2023 MECA

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Theory Review

Spring 2023 MECA

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Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education and Beyond

Spring 2023 MECA

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