Check out our amazing sessions for IMES 2023!

Join our Keynote speaker, Jeremy Cuebas, as he talks about how to teach with a Purpose.

Join John Blythe for a session on how to maintain and repair your Orff instruments.

Music Teachers learn the 3 Keys to Studio Profitability - Teach Music Theory Groups with International Best Selling Author Glory St. Germain. Discover the Mindset, Strategies & Tools for Successful Teaching.

Student engagement is built on connections and how your class makes them feel. In this session, we will consider ways to make your content delivery more engaging through meaningful communication strategies and identify step by step procedures to increase achievement and engagement through metacognition, peer support, and empowering students to evaluate learning strategies.

This session will provide attendees with tricks and trades on rebuilding the chorus program at their school. Whether post-pandemic or new to the school, chorus teachers need to equip themselves with tools for recruiting students into their chorus program.

This session will address tips and tricks to quick emergency brass repair. This session is sponsored by Music & Arts and is presented by John Blythe, one of their lead technicians.

Uke Jitsu is not a method book! It's a system and philosophy that uses backward chaining to encourage and support student achievement. In this session, we will discover strategies to create success for all students, promote individual growth, and apply mallet percussion.

Teaching on a cart is never easy, but there are plenty of ways to make it fun and effective. In this workshop we will explore both organizational and pedagogical tricks for the teacher on the go.

As a music teacher for students from grades 1 to 12 who have learning differences such as Dyslexia, ADHD and Executive Function Disorder, I have found that improvisation is a powerful tool for helping LD students engage with music.

Every student should have access to a quality music education taught by a qualified music educator. However, this is not the case in many areas of the country, especially in alternative or Title 1 schools.

In this session I will share ideas to make the music lessons more interactive, student driven and co-creative, and how we can use music to understand the world around us.

“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.” This proverb reflects how we can teach beginner modern band students of any age, and build their independence in learning instruments.

This session is intended to provide strategies for teaching music to neurodivergent learners within the cntext of specialized classrooms.

Young learners often get the short end of the stick in education, with watered-down and “kid-friendly” versions of songs, musical examples, and learning experiences. But young children are very capable of thinking deeply, asking meaningful questions, and engaging critically with the same music we expect them to appreciate later.

In this session, you will learn about the way Beginner Orchestra is redefining the school orchestra. Based on years of experience working in the unique setting of international schools, Chris will explore how music teachers are breaking away from the band/strings dichotomy in favour of 'getting everyone in a room together to play'.

Music industry programs that feature a combination of performance and production elements equip students with the experiential knowledge and skills needed to grow and thrive as musicians, producers, or other music professionals.

Are you wondering how to successfully teach the soprano recorder? Or, are you wondering why some students fall behind here?

In music education we are accustomed to discussing the genre of classical music. We also spend much of our time studying, listening, and analyzing composers such as Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart.

In my session you will be taken on a journey of how to not only approach looking for the job of your choice, but also using other jobs to climb your way to your choice job.

Middle school is a pivotal time for many students as they navigate through mental, emotional, and hormonal changes which affect various aspects of their personal and educational well-being. A teacher’s care balancing social and emotional aspects of learning can be catalyst that makes a profound difference for students.

This session is intended to provide strategies which promote the equity and inclusion of neurodivergent learners within the context of the general music classroom.

What are we not being taught and what do we need to know to ensure that ALL students have access to music in schools?

Although many of our systems rely on auditions and pre-requisite knowledge and skills for access and involvement, we often fail to engage larger populations of students in the process of making music in schools.

Teaching brass instruments to young students can be challenging for all young directors, especially for those whose primary instrument area is woodwinds or percussion.

Microphones play an important role in capturing music, speech, and all forms of sound. Audio-Technica’s Product and Application Specialist, Brent Chamberlin, will present a hands-on workshop on how microphones work, and the theories used for microphone selection based on the desired application.

Looking for choral music that will engage your middle school singers and is also pedagogically appropriate? Join clinician Krista Hart in reading through a complimentary packet of new music designed specifically for developing singers.

Do you want to strengthen the connections your students make in your general music classes? Do you want to show your students how music is everywhere? Or perhaps you’ve just been asked by an administrator to incorporate science, literacy, or math into your music lessons.

COVID changed ensemble-based courses forever. And in its wake are the traditional ensemble directors who are experiencing retention and motivation issues.

This session will cover how to incorporate microphones and educate students on using
microphones in a music classroom. Microphones are now the most common instrument on a live stage or in a recording studio.

Planning and preparing for general music can be daunting, time consuming and exhausting. If we can plan ahead for the entire year while leaving space for flexibility and new ideas, we can spend more of our time focused on the the most important part of teaching music; our tiny musicians.