Workshop Description

Nurturing Our Roots emerges from a desire to attend carefully to the beginning of all of our choir programs– the unique needs of our youngest singers. Facilitated by the Tucson Girls Chorus, this workshop will supplement the elementary-level offerings already planned at ACDA Western Division conference. 

This interactive workshop will share strategies for building engaging choral music programs for K-5 singers, focusing on techniques for building comprehensive music literacy, movement-based strategies to increase singer engagement and reinforce musical concepts, exciting and accessible repertoire, incorporating play, and singer-led strategies such as composition and student leadership. Participants will leave this workshop with both practical ideas to apply to their teaching right away, and pedagogical tools to deepen their approach to teaching elementary-level musicians.