The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs (BIAESN) is delighted to announce the 2019 dates for its annual conference, ABLE Assembly: Arts Better the Lives of Everyone.

The ABLE Assembly 2019 will be held April 12–14 at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The ABLE Assembly is an exceptional professional development opportunity in the field of arts education and special needs, bringing together educators, artists, researchers, policymakers, school administrators, program administrators, and students to share best practices, engage in hands-on experiences, explore new research, and learn from each other. 

The event features presentations and workshops on teaching the arts to students with special needs. Keynote presenters will be announced this fall. Workshops will include opportunities to experience teaching strategies and approaches in music, dance, and theater. 

The conference is open to the public.

MMEA 2019 All-State Conference
February 28 - March 2, 2019
Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center
Boston, MA

MMEA, the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, in affiliation with NAfME, the National Association for Music Education, is pleased to present our annual All State Conference and Exhibition February 28 - March 2, 2019, at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center, in Boston, MA.

The annual All-State Conference features as many as 120 sessions, several concert hours and casual concerts, and is attended by more than 800 music educators and 500 of Massachusetts' top student musicians performing band, orchestral, jazz and choral works.

Berklee College of Music hosts its High School Jazz Festival at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Berklee’s annual event is the largest of its kind in the United States, free, and open the public.

PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP: collage, sample, loop and hook

Jarritt Sheel is currently an assistant professor of Music Education at the Berklee College of Music, where he teaches various education courses, applied trumpet, and works with Dr. Toki Wright in developing their hip-hop Studies program. He has toured internationally, worked with thousands of students in high school band programs. He previously taught in the Music Education program at NYU-Steinhardt, as well as Critical Theory, Art History, and Democracy courses for the CUNY system. He is currently an Ensemble Director for the high school jazz academy at JALC. He is a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, in the Music & Music Education, and his research focuses on hip-hop, CRT and culturally relevant practices in music education.