Welcome members of MBA
Missouri Bandmasters:
We appreciate you!
We admire the tireless dedication you demonstrate for your students and helping them to achieve success.
Enjoy the 2024 Missouri Bandmasters Association Conference and enjoy the opportunity to connect, to rest, to rejuvenate and re-energize for the coming year!
Consider bringing your band, your soloists or your small ensembles to perform as part of our the 2025 Fine Arts Education Day - April 9, 2025
Bring a delegation to the Show-Me Arts Summit - April 8, 2025
Submit an image for the Senate Student Fine Arts Exhibit! (Not just for visual artists - but we'd love to represent ALL art forms! Due 12.31.24)
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We are honored to celebrate with our MBA Allies on another successful statewide conference! We know that Missouri's Band leaders work tirelessly to support Missouri students and their learning. We are here to help and to strengthen arts education in Missouri through our support, promotion and advocacy efforts.
Read on to learn ways that you might connect with the Alliance:
Stay connected to news and resources to improve your instructional practice. Signup for our monthly newsletter.
Become an Ally as an individual or as an organization. There is no cost to become an ally.
Help us recognize and celebrate contributions to arts ed in Missouri through our MAAE awards program.
Leverage the power of your student's voice and participate in our student arts advocacy training - SHOW ME ARTS SUMMIT. (registration deadline 3/1)
Participate in our state advocacy day - FINE ARTS EDUCATION DAY - in cooperation with MMEA - either virtually (submit a video) or in person. Submit videos by 2/15, in-person performance applications due 3/1.
Join one of our three FREE professional learning communities
Plan ahead and submit (still image of) student works of art for the annual Senate Student Arts Exhibit Project. (submission deadline is 12/31/24.)
Stay connected, stay informed! Follow our social media platforms @moartsed.
Explore MAAE's website to learn about our programs, teachers, students and opportunities for professional growth.
As always, we invite you to become engaged with the work of the Alliance in the way that fits you best.
Thanks for all you are doing to support Missouri's students of the arts! If we can help in way, please feel free to reach out!
- Phyllis Pasley - executive director
director@moaae.org
Recap and Highlights
Fine Arts Education Day 2024
Professional Learning Communities
Learn more at https://www.moaae.org/programs/professional-development
The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in the Arts professional learning network is open all members of the arts education community. A project of the MAAE's RIDE committee, this informal gathering meets quarterly via ZOOM and is designed to be a safe space for open communication about issues connected with racism, inclusion, diversity and equity. A roundtable forum, this can be a place where people can share concerns, ask questions and seek answers or solutions to help bring greater equity for all. Quarterly sessions. >Register and Learn more
The Missouri Arts Integration Network connects individuals with an interest in ARTS INTEGRATION via FREE one-hour monthly events via ZOOM. We welcome arts and non-arts teachers from any subject or discipline at every level - from PreK through collegiate. Get inspired as you meet with other educators and hear success stories from practitioners across the state. Monthly sessions. >Register and Learn more
The FAME Leadership Group is open to all arts educators. The FAME sessions will be on hiatus for at least the next 9 months. Tour the FAME session archives to get connected with colleagues and arts ed supports available from all across our state.
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