Welcome to the Great Plains Orff Chapter
Letter
from the President Hello GPOC Membership, Welcome back and welcome to the Great Plains Orff Chapter Website. We have tons of lesson plans, helpful hints and resources for you as you enter this new year of teaching available on our website, Facebook, and Twitter! As we embark on a more "normal" school year, we also know there are still some safety measures that we are focusing on to make creating music with children a positive experience for everyone. Over the last year I have enjoyed hearing all of your stories of how you have made the best of an unpleasant situation. WE ARE RESILIENT! We are excited for our 2021-2022 workshop season. We are currently planning on having these all be in-person workshops, assuming the health department guidance says it is safe to do so. If you are comfortable, we so hope you can join us this season for learning and music making! The dates are as follows: Jay Broeker: October 23, 2021--9-3 p.m Bell Elementary, Papillion Winter Chapter Sharing: January 23, 2022--9-1 p.m--UNO Ashley Woodside Brown: April 9, 2022--9-1 p.m--UNL GPOC is our local Orff Schulwerk chapter, and our parent organization AOSA has a ton of useful information on their website as well. Becoming a member of AOSA is easy, and you gain even more member benefits by joining! Check them out at aosa.org Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you have found some useful information, and please do not hesitate to contact me or any member of the GPOC board with further questions. Carolyn Janke, GPOC President cjanke52@gmail.com |
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GPOC Anti-Racism Statement
The Great Plains Orff Chapter believes that inclusion and respect should be at the core of all Orff Schulwerk learning environments, and practiced by our membership both inside and outside of their classrooms. We denounce injustices imposed on any communities of color and particularly condemn violence against Black communities in our country. We stand in solidarity with our Black teachers, Black students, and Black families. We believe #BlackLivesMatter.
Anti-racism is an ongoing discussion among GPOC board members, and we will continue to reflect on our own organizational practices as well as systemic racial inequities within our country and local communities. As our awareness of who GPOC is and what we represent evolves, we are dedicated to listening, learning, and acting in ways that support BBIP (Black, Brown, Indigenous People) and all communities of color.
We also acknowledge that personal growth requires reflection, work, and pressing ourselves for change. Confronting truths about ourselves is difficult, but actively taking this journey as a board and chapter is the only way to grow.
Below are resources our board members have found important on their personal journeys, and we encourage you to use them on your own journey.
Websites
Anti-Racism Resources (by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic
Decolonizing the Music Room
https://decolonizingthemusicroom.com/?fbclid=IwAR02fe--zNeUdGe8fv1VlwvmmcGrMpVooslUAxnNXWWi6NHF909A6xCMY8c
GAMEPLAN content concerns by DeLelles & Kriske
https://bit.ly/3hmmIPY
Institute for Composer Diversity
https://www.composerdiversity.com/?fbclid=IwAR3STWhWN9t-_-L3ZXAn9IdskHZSXGiJiTYve1LcFNtl5SdjmmAY113-s8w
The Anti-Racist Starter Pack
https://parade.com/1046031/breabaker/anti-racist-tv-movies-documentaries-ted-talks-books/
Webinars
“Making Good Choices: How Can Teachers Better Research Repertoire for the Classroom?”; Scroll down this linked page until you find the title: https://nafme.org/my-classroom/nafme-online-professional-learning-community/#Webinar%20Recordings;
“Say Her Name: Racial Profiling of Black Women During the Pandemic”
https://facebook.com/events/s/say-her-nameracial-profiling-o/559941954895444/?ti=as;
A Conversation about Race and the Choral Music Classroom
https://bit.ly/2zlZR5I (Access Password: 0U#8X&4*)
Books/Articles
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo; How To Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi; For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin; First Steps in Global Music, by Karen Howard; Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books https://www.teachingforchange.org/selecting-anti-bias-books ; Narratives of Musical Resilience and the Perpetuation of Whiteness in the Music History Classroom, by Travis Stimeling and Kayla Tokar http://ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/312
Podcasts
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist
Films/Documentaries
Out of Omaha, 2018; 13th, 2016; Slavery By Another Name (PBS), 2012; When They See Us, 2019; Selma, 2014; Just Mercy, 2019 (FREE streaming https://bit.ly/37qK8Pp); A Time for Burning, 1966 (FREE streaming https://filmstreams.org/films/a-time-for-burning)
The Great Plains Orff Chapter believes that inclusion and respect should be at the core of all Orff Schulwerk learning environments, and practiced by our membership both inside and outside of their classrooms. We denounce injustices imposed on any communities of color and particularly condemn violence against Black communities in our country. We stand in solidarity with our Black teachers, Black students, and Black families. We believe #BlackLivesMatter.
Anti-racism is an ongoing discussion among GPOC board members, and we will continue to reflect on our own organizational practices as well as systemic racial inequities within our country and local communities. As our awareness of who GPOC is and what we represent evolves, we are dedicated to listening, learning, and acting in ways that support BBIP (Black, Brown, Indigenous People) and all communities of color.
We also acknowledge that personal growth requires reflection, work, and pressing ourselves for change. Confronting truths about ourselves is difficult, but actively taking this journey as a board and chapter is the only way to grow.
Below are resources our board members have found important on their personal journeys, and we encourage you to use them on your own journey.
Websites
Anti-Racism Resources (by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic
Decolonizing the Music Room
https://decolonizingthemusicroom.com/?fbclid=IwAR02fe--zNeUdGe8fv1VlwvmmcGrMpVooslUAxnNXWWi6NHF909A6xCMY8c
GAMEPLAN content concerns by DeLelles & Kriske
https://bit.ly/3hmmIPY
Institute for Composer Diversity
https://www.composerdiversity.com/?fbclid=IwAR3STWhWN9t-_-L3ZXAn9IdskHZSXGiJiTYve1LcFNtl5SdjmmAY113-s8w
The Anti-Racist Starter Pack
https://parade.com/1046031/breabaker/anti-racist-tv-movies-documentaries-ted-talks-books/
Webinars
“Making Good Choices: How Can Teachers Better Research Repertoire for the Classroom?”; Scroll down this linked page until you find the title: https://nafme.org/my-classroom/nafme-online-professional-learning-community/#Webinar%20Recordings;
“Say Her Name: Racial Profiling of Black Women During the Pandemic”
https://facebook.com/events/s/say-her-nameracial-profiling-o/559941954895444/?ti=as;
A Conversation about Race and the Choral Music Classroom
https://bit.ly/2zlZR5I (Access Password: 0U#8X&4*)
Books/Articles
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo; How To Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi; For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin; First Steps in Global Music, by Karen Howard; Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books https://www.teachingforchange.org/selecting-anti-bias-books ; Narratives of Musical Resilience and the Perpetuation of Whiteness in the Music History Classroom, by Travis Stimeling and Kayla Tokar http://ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/312
Podcasts
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist
Films/Documentaries
Out of Omaha, 2018; 13th, 2016; Slavery By Another Name (PBS), 2012; When They See Us, 2019; Selma, 2014; Just Mercy, 2019 (FREE streaming https://bit.ly/37qK8Pp); A Time for Burning, 1966 (FREE streaming https://filmstreams.org/films/a-time-for-burning)