Maine Music Educators Association Strategic Plan
Mission:
To promote and advance music education by providing a voice and venue for advocacy and advancement of
music education in Maine.
Values: (adapted from NAfME Strategic Plan)
Community: Collaborating with our family of associations, members, and partners to carry out our
mission.
Stewardship: Empowering volunteerism and strategically developing leadership, fostering a spirit of
accountability and a culture of giving of our time, talents and resources.
Comprehensiveness: Uplifting the human spirit and providing opportunities for all students to create,
perform, respond, and connect to all styles of music.
Inclusion and Equity: Building strength and promoting diversity in a profession representing the with
spectrum of people and cultures, abilities, economic backgrounds, geographic location and gender
identities.
Innovation: Enhancing music teaching and association program management through combining effective
and dynamic new practices with proven strategies in the context of our changing global community.
Strategic Directions:
Governance
Membership
Advocacy
Diversity
Ensure data driven
governance practices and
decision making to
advance and maintain the
association we serve.
a. Attain and maintain
event and director and
officer insurance for
MMEA and districts.
b. Review and revamp
handbook including job
descriptions, timeline for
each job.
c. Develop and use self
evaluation models.
d. Align financial
documents and policies
for MMEA and all districts.
Actively encourage and
activate music educators
in Maine to be members
of our organization.
a. Develop and maintain a
statewide directory of
music educators.
b. Attain and maintain a
email sending service
such as “constant
contact”.
c. Kick off and promote a
statewide membership
campaign focusing around
the 2017 centennial
celebration.
Inform, engage and
activate the public,
policymakers and
educational leaders to
support music as an
integral and core
component of a
comprehensive and
balanced education
accessible to all students.
(adapted by NAfME
Strategic Plan)
a. Develop and maintain a
voice at the state level
focusing upon the
implementation of the
ESSA.
b.Promote a State Hill
Day, modeled after
NAfME Hill Day.
c.Name an advocacy
chair to serve on the
NAfME Advocacy
Leadership Force (ALF
d.Support “Stand up for
Students” legislation.
Ensure practices that
allow all members and
students to have equal
access to mmea events
and activities regardless
of cultures, abilities,
economic backgrounds,
geographic location and
gender identities.
a. Maintain the work with
MALI to send teacher
leaders out to share
workshops. Develop a
library of webinars
focusing on All State prep.
b. Evaluate what the
membership fees cover to
include workshops?
c. Advocate for the use of
title IV funds in the ESSA
for professional
development.
d. Promote scholarship
opportunities to
membership.
Developed 7/6/16