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Wednesday, July 24
2:00 pm Panel The Successful Group Lesson: Working with Beginners
Hanout 1 Handout 2
2:00 pm Bradley Sowash Improve Your Groove
2:05 pm Eneida Larti and Sam Welsh The Modern Piano Teacher: Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
2:15 pm Pamela Pike Serious Learning – Serious Fun! Strategies for Making Music with Older Adults
2:45 pm Kenneth Williams Piano Pedagogy in an Age of Student Mobility
3:00 pm Michelle Sisler/Linda Christensen Use Technology to Extend Learning During the Week
3:35 pm Marilyn Lowe How to Think Music: The Pathway to Music Literacy for the Music/Piano Student
3:45 pm Vanessa Cornett The Riddle of the Pianist’s Paradox
4:05 pm Clinton Pratt Music Moves Us . . . Literally! — Using Movement to Enhance Musicianship
4:05 pm Panel Apply for your Dream Job! Navigating the Academic Job Market
6:30 pm Arlene Steffen Smooth Transitions: Moving from Methods to Masters
6:30 pm Laura Amoriello Meditation: The Teacher-Performer's Best-Kept Secret
6:30 pm Chris Madden/Jennifer Stadler Engaging Your Audience with Green Screen Technology
7:00 pm Lori Frazer Orchestrated Backgrounds - Benefits and Beyond!
7:00 pm Linda Christensen/Michelle Sisler Deepen Learning through Project-Based Learning
7:30 pm Jason Sifford Eyes, Ears, Arms, and Heart
7:30 pm Kris Skaletski/Emily Skaletski Skills and Strategies for Inclusive Piano Teaching
7:30 pm NSMS Faculty Teaching the Bach Inventions: An In-depth Analysis and Practical Guidelines
7:50 pm Joseph Harkins Professional Branding: Advance Your Studio Images
8:30 Thomas Swenson Different Strokes for Different Folks: Assessments and Beyond for Adult Students
9:00 pm Jessie Welsh Between the Lines: Lasting Lessons from the Studio
Thursday, July 25
9:00 am Todd Van Kekerix Elvina Pearce: An Excursion Through the Life and Contributions of a Piano Pedagogue
9:00 am Wynn-Anne Rossi Jazzy Notes and Wild Stories
9:00 am Vanessa Cornett, Jessica Johnson, Brenda Wristen Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask Before Assisting Others
9:25 am Garinee Garmanian Jording The Professional Identity of Independent Piano Teachers
9:25 am Soojung Jeon and Yoonsook Song Time for Two!: Succeeding with Piano Duet
12:15 pm Interactive Wellness Café
Handout 1 Handout 2
12:15 pm Research Posters
Catherine Willard Exploring Improvisation in the Music Reader
Shitong Sigler Entrepreneurship and Opportunities Beyond the Practice Room
Ricardo Pozenatto Keyboard Skills: Class Piano Students' Preferences
Yoon Pak Effective Preparation for Chopin Études
1:30 pm Lesley McAllister Facing Fear: Anxiety and the Adolescent Student
1:30 pm Cole Burger Beginning and Early Intermediate Piano Music by Female Composers
1:55 pm Penny Lazarus When our Piano Students Inspire Others: The Socially Conscious Piano Studio
1:55 pm Rachel Fritz/Catherine Walby Community Music Schools As Advocates For Social Justice
Friday, July 26
9:00 am Pamela Pike Serious Learning – Serious Fun! Strategies for Making Music with Older Adults
9:00 am Fred Karpoff Balancing Clarity and Resonance With Artistic Pedaling
9:00 am Christopher Norton Mixing it up - Different Approaches to the Teaching of Improvisation
9:25 am Alicia Caicedo-Cavazos The Health Aware Piano Student: Suggestions for Health Information Delivery in University Music Programs
12:15 pm Interactive Wellness Café
Handout 1 Handout 2
12:15 pm General Pedagogy Posters
Natsumi Takai Pedal Pedagogy! Fun Facilitation for Beginners
Marcia L Bosits Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Career Preparation: Learning From Other Disciplines
Yeon-Kyung Kim Old in New: A Teaching Guide to Anniversaries by Leonard Bernstein
Joyce Hall Wolf/Rachel Taylor Teaching Collaboration – Student Pianist to Artist Collaborator
Sunjoo Lee Understanding ADHD and Teaching Strategies for Students with ADHD in Music Instruction
Stephanie Bruning Hey…Listen to this!
1:30 pm Immanuela Gruenberg Secrets and Dilemmas From a Music Editor's Desk
1:30 pm Kotova Svetlana Chilean Music for Young Pianists
1:30 pm Lightning Talks
Kristin Cahill - bitKlavier: Reimagining the Piano
Amy Chaplin - Evernote for the Independent Music Teacher
Rachel D. Hahn - Do You Validate? Parking National Core Arts Standards in Elementary Piano
1:55 pm Michael Clark Reflecting What's Right in Your Playing: An Introduction to Mirror Practice
1:55 pm Amber Yiu-Hsuan Liao Promoting Equity in Concert Programming: Piano Solo Works by Asian Female Composers
Saturday, July 27
9:00 am Panel The Successful Group Lesson: Working with Beginners
Hanout 1 Handout 2
9:00 am Nancy Bachus Clara Schumann—A 21st Century Role Model
9:00 am Spencer Myer Muscle Memory: Friend or Foe?
9:00 am Clinton Pratt Let’s Make Something Up! A Universal Approach to Improvisation
9:00 am Donna Gunn Discoveries from the Fortepiano: A Modern Pianist’s Journey
9:00 am Susan Osborn The Score Speaks: Teaching Interpretation Through Score Mapping
9:25 am Natalie Doughty/Scarlette Kerr Not Just Fun and Games: Strategic Design for Significant Learning
9:25 am Vanessa Cornett The Riddle of the Pianist’s Paradox
10:00 am Scott Price/Chase Batten Inclusive Teaching Demonstration
Includes resources to review Pre-NCKP
11:00 am Bradley Sowash/Tony Caramia/Jeremy Siskind & students Improvisation Teaching Demonstration
Includes resources to review Pre-NCKP
Handout 1 Handout 2
1:30 pm Phyllis Alpert Lehrer Embracing Complexity: Explorations along the Pianists' Path
1:30 pm Susan Bruckner Music and Neuroscience: Towards a Return to the Core Curriculum
1:30 pm Morgan Murdock Kline Kids & Counterpoint: Teaching Off the Bench
1:30 pm Nancy O'Neill Breth Goodbye Tears and Tantrums: A Fresh Look at Practicing
1:55 pm Huiyun Liang Seeing the Unobservable: An Exploratory Study of Incorporating Video Modeling into Piano Teaching