Welcome to the Great Plains Orff Chapter
Letter
from the President Hello GPOC Membership, Welcome to the Great Plains Orff Chapter Website. My name is Carolyn Janke, your new GPOC president for the next two years. I have served as vice-president under Brittany McCleery for the past two years and thank her for her leadership. The 2020-21 school year is beginning unlike any other that we've known before. Now, more than ever, we need to lean on each other (virtually) for support as we take on this year of teaching. Please feel free to reach out to any of our board members if you have questions regarding GPOC or AOSA. We have lots of resources and connections and can point you in a good direction whether you find yourself teaching in a school building or from home. Check out the "classroom resources" tab above for some great lessons! Our Facebook and Twitter pages are another wonderful resource to gain knowledge and foster discussion. GPOC members have a wealth of ideas and we are very willing to share! We will be meeting as a board soon to discuss the reality of in-person workshops for the 2020-2021 school year. Our Workshops and Socials page will always have the most up-to-date information, but if there is a change in plans we will email you, post the information here on our website, and update our social media pages. Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you have found some useful information, and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions. Have a great year of teaching and find a way to make it the best it can be! -Carolyn Janke 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)