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What Do Y’all Do?

Communicating the Impact of the Stax Music Academy

+What does SMA do for kids?

Think/Pair/Share Think: silently consider the prompt. Pair: turn to the person beside you and talk about it. Share: tell the class what you talked about.

(Step one is SILENT…so no talking until the teacher calls “Pair!”)

+What do we intend to do?

From the website:“Stax Music Academy exists to nurture and present the next great generation of Soul Communicators.”

http://www.staxmusicacademy.org/about-us/our-mission/

+What do the kids say we do?

Unseal the paper and read Jada’s testimony.

Highlight what she says she learns at SMA.

Essential question: What key areas of curriculum are alluded to in Jada’s testimony?

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SMA teaches students how to be accomplished, idiomatic musicians and self-actualized citizens.We do that.

YOU do that.

+Who need’s to know what we do?

Soulsville campus – TSCS, SMASM, Foundation

Shelby County Schools

Our students

Our students families

Music educators from around the world

Memphis’s top donors

Who else?

+How will they know?

What are methods for communicating what we do with our stakeholders?

It is our responsibility, as entrepreneurial educators, to communicate our curricula – both overt and hidden – to our stakeholders.

+Where do you find the curricula?

Overt: The written curricula; the materials listed in the syllabus; designated content that students should learn from participating in this education.

Hidden: The implicit curricula; the understandings from which the overt curricula are decided; content gathered by the learning environment itself.

The syllabus is a site for overt and hidden curriculum.

What we write matters.

If it matters, we need to write it.

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The SyllabusA workshop.

+The assignment:

Create a syllabus for your ensemble that communicates the overt and hidden curricula as appropriate for a Stax Music Academy course.

This is due to Justin by Friday, December 19th.

Use your work time wisely – you should be able to finish today.

+Resources

Check your e-mail: SN@P! Ensemble Goals attachment

Paul’s jazz band syllabus (Please, forward .)

Any online examples helpful.

Follow the syllabus template from Cornell University. Cornell University syllabus resources