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Alberta Scholarship MICCA Hall of Fame Links Commissioned Works Job Opportunities Our Policies Our Bylaws MICCA Membership MICCA Mission Statement E-Board Calendar Contact NEW MICCA Marching Band State Finals 2022 Schedule here. IMPORTANT!!!!! MICCA Marching Band State Finals 2022 PARKING PLAN for Band Staff & the General Public - CLICK HERE!! - MICCA Summer Institute 2022 We have some great clinicians lined up! Professional Development for Orchestra, Choral, Band, Jazz, General, A Cappella, Technology and much more! Join us at Hopkinton High School July 27-28th from 9-5pm! $50 Course credit available (for additional cost) through UMass Lowell. We look forward to seeing you all there! Click here for our Daily Schedule of all our sessions Click here to register for these amazing sessions! Click here for more info on our Summer Institute! Read more - ***** PLEASE NOTE!!! NEW SCHEDULE posted for the Marching Band Finals with order of appearances. - Registration for 2021 Marching Band Festivals is now available! Check out all the festivals we have to offer here! - Summer Institute 2021 Save the date for this year’s MICCA Summer Institute! We have some great clinicians lined up and are again happy to offer these clinics FREE OF CHARGE. Join us on Zoom July 27-29th! Registration here! virtual Summer Institute FREE OF CHARGE to music educators. The theme of this year’s programming is: Preparing for Remote Teaching. We have curated OVER TWENTY SESSIONS which all deal with this topic in some way. We hope that educators will leave feeling inspired and have new tricks up their sleeves to best-engage their students remotely. Sessions will be offered via Zoom on August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . Our sessions will delve into.... Improvisation in the large ensemble (over Zoom) Best practices in teaching band, chorus, and orchestra remotely Virtual ensembles The flipped classroom Student engagement And SO MUCH more! There is NO COST to participate but we ask that all participants register here by Saturday, August 8. All registrants will receive an email on Sunday, August 9 with links to all of the sessions. Attached to the email are a daily schedule as well as descriptions of each session. We hope you will help us promote this opportunity to learn from each other by sharing this email with the members of your department and colleagues in other states now that we are not bound by geography! We look forward to seeing you all next week! Click here for our Daily Schedule of all our sessions Click here for our Session Descriptions Click here to register for these amazing sessions! Thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company there is no cost to participate! - In the wake of last week’s guidance from DESE, MICCA is working on a virtual series of clinics and sharing sessions for educators. The intent of these sessions is to arm you with as many strategies, ideas, and best practices to employ with your ensembles and beginning instrumentalists in remote and hybrid settings as possible. The intent is NOT to fixate on what we have no control over but rather to learn about and discuss what we CAN do to be effective and engaging educators. We have 20 sessions which will take place over Zoom between August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . The menu of sessions includes sharing sessions for band, chorus, and orchestra teachers, group improvisation techniques for the large ensemble, a musicianship refresher for educators, a mindfulness session for educators, teaching social justice and anti-racism through ensemble music, rec ruitment and retention, virtual ensembles, and SO MUCH MORE! We are excited to be able to offer these sessions FREE OF CHARGE thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company ! More information, including the full schedule, our clinicians, and registration information will be available early next week. We hope you will be able to join us! - Read more - Virtual Clinics The Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral and Conductors Association (MICCA) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra want to help our state’s music educators and students during this unique school year. We are now offering FREE virtual clinics for educators to use with students for a live, interactive clinic with a musician from the Boston Symphony Orchestra! These virtual clinics are FREE , but will granted on a first-come, first-served basis . Click here for more info so we can connect you with a BSO Musician! virtual Summer Institute FREE OF CHARGE to music educators. The theme of this year’s programming is: Preparing for Remote Teaching. We have curated OVER TWENTY SESSIONS which all deal with this topic in some way. We hope that educators will leave feeling inspired and have new tricks up their sleeves to best-engage their students remotely. Sessions will be offered via Zoom on August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . Our sessions will delve into.... Improvisation in the large ensemble (over Zoom) Best practices in teaching band, chorus, and orchestra remotely Virtual ensembles The flipped classroom Student engagement And SO MUCH more! There is NO COST to participate but we ask that all participants register here by Saturday, August 8. All registrants will receive an email on Sunday, August 9 with links to all of the sessions. Attached to the email are a daily schedule as well as descriptions of each session. We hope you will help us promote this opportunity to learn from each other by sharing this email with the members of your department and colleagues in other states now that we are not bound by geography! We look forward to seeing you all next week! Click here for our Daily Schedule of all our sessions Click here for our Session Descriptions Click here to register for these amazing sessions! Thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company there is no cost to participate! - In the wake of last week’s guidance from DESE, MICCA is working on a virtual series of clinics and sharing sessions for educators. The intent of these sessions is to arm you with as many strategies, ideas, and best practices to employ with your ensembles and beginning instrumentalists in remote and hybrid settings as possible. The intent is NOT to fixate on what we have no control over but rather to learn about and discuss what we CAN do to be effective and engaging educators. We have 20 sessions which will take place over Zoom between August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . The menu of sessions includes sharing sessions for band, chorus, and orchestra teachers, group improvisation techniques for the large ensemble, a musicianship refresher for educators, a mindfulness session for educators, teaching social justice and anti-racism through ensemble music, rec ruitment and retention, virtual ensembles, and SO MUCH MORE! We are excited to be able to offer these sessions FREE OF CHARGE thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company ! More information, including the full schedule, our clinicians, and registration information will be available early next week. We hope you will be able to join us! - Read more - - ‪ Dear Colleagues, We hope the new year finds you and your loved ones in good health and with optimism...