Welcome to the Great Plains Orff Chapter
Letter
from the President Hello GPOC Membership, Welcome back to school 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! The 22-23 school year holds so many exciting opportunities for us to learn, grow, and make music together. From a variety of workshops throughout the year, to the debut of the NMEA Orff Ensemble, to the AOSA National Conference in Kansas City - this is going to be a year for the books! Check out our schedule for the year below:
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. Kathleen McBee, GPOC President kmcbee@epsne.org |
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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)