Spring 2007 PMEA District 7 Newsletter
C/I Committee Summer Report

Curriculum and Instruction Committee Members

Chair and Middle School Representative: Donna Burkholder (2007)
Conestoga Valley Middle School, 500 Mt. Sidney Road
Lancaster, PA 17602
(S) 717-397-1294, ext. 1615, donna_burkholder@cvsd.k12.pa.us
Elementary Representative: Mark Romig (2006)
Rice Spring Elementary School, 805 Holly Pike
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
pianotrio@earthlink.net
Higher Education Representative: Katrina Peddell
Messiah College, PO Box 3004
Grantham, PA 17027
kpeddell@messiah.edu
High School Representative: Marie Weber
Lower Dauphin High School, 201 South Hanover Street
Hummelstown, PA 17036
mweber@ldsd.org

Activities Accomplished for the 2006 – 2007 school year

    1. Attended PMEA District 7 Executive Board meetings in August 2006, December 2006 and May 2007
    2. Organized Professional Development Day on October 9, 2006 at Elizabethtown College serving 250 music teachers and music education students
      • Keynote speaker and clinician – Dr. John Feierabend
      • Numerous workshops throughout the day provided by area music educators
    3. Led business meetings at the Middle School Song Fest and Youth Band Fest on November 4 and 11 (Penn Manor MS and Elizabethtown)
    4. Participated in District 12 workshop day in November as MS Choral Reading session leader
    5. Supervised Act 48 hour procurement through PMEA and PDE for numerous festivals and fests in 2006 and 2007
    6. Organized Summer Professional Development Day for Act 48 credit for area music educators on June 19, 2007 – 38 teachers participated
      • Presenter was Dr. Peter Boonshaft from Hofstra University, NY
    7. Began the process of organizing the 2007 PMEA District 7 Professional Development Day on October 8 to be situated at Penn Manor High School in Millersville
      • Keynote speaker and clinician – Bob Phillips, string educator
    8. Assisted the President of District 7 PMEA in securing fest hosts for the upcoming year
      • Youth Band Fest – Keith Smith at Tuscarora SD (Nov. 2 and 3)
      • Middle School Song Fest – Andy Apgar at Dover MS (Nov. 17)
      • Youth String Fest – Jill Marzolf at Gettysburg SD (April 12)
      • Elementary Song Fest – Michelle Conrad at Warwick SD (TBD)