Curriculum Committee
Statement of Purpose
The Curriculum Committee supports the implementation of the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts in all areas of music education. It provides guidance and resources for curricula that are innovative, relevant, robust, representative, and responsive to a diverse population of students.
Curriculum Committee Members
L to R, bottom row
- Deborah Cunningham, Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District
- Dennis Creighton, Shoreham-Wading Central School District
- Dr. Denise Lutter, Retired, Bronxville
- Dr. Rich Tilley, Nazareth University of Rochester
- Nikki Cole, Bath-Haverling Central School District
- Fred Weingarten, Ithaca College – Chair
- Matt Gayle, Potsdam Central School District
- Not pictured: Gary West, White Plains Central School District
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• Current Projects
PD Opportunities:
~ Reimagining Music Education through Universal Design
~ Embracing AI in the Music Classroom
Lesson Plan Templates:
~ Traditional and Emerging Ensemble Lesson Plan Template
~ Pk-8 General Music Lesson Plan Template
~ Submit your lesson idea for inclusion in: Innovative Instruction for Standards-Based Learning
• Planning, Instruction, and Assessment
• Importance of an Arts Curriculum
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Contact Us: nyssmacurrcomm@gmail.com
Curriculum Committee Photo Gallery
Related Documents
- Embracing AI in the Music Classroom (DOCX – 17 KB)
- Embracing AI in the Music Classroom (DOCX – 14 KB)
- Reimagining Music Education through Universal Design (DOCX – 17 KB)
- Resources for culturally responsive pedagogy (DOCX – 18 KB)
- Pk-8 General Music Lesson Plan Template (DOCX – 15 KB)
- Book Study: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music Education-Emily Good-Perkins (DOCX – 13 KB)
- Propose your own session for next year’s Winter Conference! (PDF – 144 KB)
- Sessions sponsored by Curriculum Committee (PDF – 183 KB)
- Exploring Standards and Instructional Practices through a BEDR lens (PDF – 113 KB)
- Exploring Standards and Instructional Practices via BEDR lens (PDF – 111 KB)
- Exploring Sandards via BEDR lens (DOCX – 20 KB)
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- Useful Connections (DOCX – 26 KB)
- Band (PDF – 270 KB)
- Minutes (PDF – 59 KB)
- experimental zoom recording ( – 87 MB)
- Useful Connections …a music educator’s reaction to New York State on Pause (DOCX – 23 KB)
- Standards in Action video (DOCX – 12 KB)
- Standards in Action video (DOCX – 12 KB)
- The Arts Standards Roadmap and Implementation Timeline (PDF – 1 MB)
- Identification of Quarter and Paired Eighth notes (PDF – 1 MB)
- General Music (PDF – 357 KB)
- Orchestra (PDF – 291 KB)
- Chorus (PDF – 237 KB)
- Band (PDF – 278 KB)
- NYS ARTS STANDARDS HANDBOOK ( – 240 MB)
- Overview of 2017 NYS Standards (color) (DOCX – 25 KB)
- Process components & Enduring Understandings (PDF – 84 KB)
- Artistic Processes (PDF – 56 KB)
- Overview of 2017 NYS Standards (PDF – 102 KB)
- FAQs (PDF – 659 KB)
- Introduction To Quality Tone Production in Beginning Violinists (PDF – 25 MB)
- Instructional Ideas for Process Components (PDF – 91 KB)
- Instructional Ideas for Process Components (PDF – 91 KB)
- Instructional Ideas for Process Components (DOCX – 105 KB)
- Standard Shareables (DOCX – 77 KB)
- Standard Shareables (DOCX – 77 KB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 70 KB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 76 KB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 76 KB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 76 KB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 77 KB)
- Wolf.Mero copy (PDF – 3 MB)
- Standard Sharables (DOCX – 63 KB)
- Select.jpg (PDF – 249 KB)
- Artistic Literacy (DOCX – 132 KB)
- Template for Creating Standards-Based Lesson (DOCX – 17 KB)
- Descriptors for Performance Achievement Levels (PDF – 55 KB)
- Overview of 2017 NYS Standards (PDF – 102 KB)
- FAQs (PDF – 656 KB)
- FAQs (DOCX – 715 KB)
- Introduction To Quality Tone Production in Beginning Violinists (PDF – 72 MB)
Introduction To Quality Tone Production in Beginning Violinistspage.php - Overview of 2017 Standards (PDF – 104 KB)
Overview of 2017 Arts Standardspage.php - High School Classroom Music Exemplar (PDF – 1 MB)
- National Core Arts Standards Overview (PDF – 97 KB)
- NCAS Poster (PDF – 183 KB)
- Curriculum Committee Sessions for Winter Conference ’15 (DOC – 38 KB)
- Performance Preparation (PDF – 210 KB)
Performance Preparationpage.php - Programmatic Music (PDF – 669 KB)
- Crosswalk (PDF – 84 KB)
- The Arts And Common Core Phase 2 Final College Board (PDF – 882 KB)
College Board Crosswalk between NCAS and Common Corepage.php - Navigating NCAS (PDF – 137 KB)
- National Core Arts Standards Overview (PDF – 77 KB)
- Anchor Standards & Components (PDF – 53 KB)
- A Standards Crosswalk Beteen Common Core and Music (DOC – 64 KB)
- SLO Template (DOC – 39 KB)
- Creating SLO’s (DOC – 32 KB)
We have generated 2 samples of SLO, along with several other helpful materials. page.php - SLO – Gr. 9 Sightreading (b/ch/o) (PDF – 93 KB)
- SLO – Instrumental lessons Gr. 5–8 (Onondagua BOCES) (PDF – 88 KB)
- SLO – Gr. 5 Composition (PDF – 101 KB)
- SLO – Gr. 5 General Music (Onondagua BOCES) (PDF – 100 KB)
- Level 1 Vocal Music (DOC – 47 KB)
- SLO – Gr. 5 Composition (Onondagua BOCES) (PDF – 101 KB)
- Level 1 Pre Assessment TE (DOCX – 129 KB)
- Level 2 Vocal Music (DOC – 46 KB)
- Level 2 Pre Assessment (DOCX – 188 KB)
- Level 4 Music Pre Damon (DOCX – 527 KB)
- Level 3 Music Pre (DOCX – 51 KB)
- Level 5 Music Pre Damon (DOCX – 373 KB)
- Grade 3 SLO pre-test (PDF – 181 KB)
- Sight Reading Level 4 (PDF – 379 KB)
- Grade 5 SLO Pre Test (PDF – 453 KB)
