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Your new Elementary/General AMEA executive board met in July to get the ball rolling with plans for our conference in January and our Elementary All-State Choir. If you are new to teaching elementary or general music this year, welcome! Please send me an email at elementaryamea@gmail.com – your board, and I would love to help you get plugged in.

Several years ago, I received a rather suspicious envelope in my school mailbox. While it was properly addressed to me, the return address was from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (they were still together at the time). What in the world would this group want with me? Skeptical that this was just another piece of junk mail that every teacher at my school received, I dismissed it as such.

Even though we know an ending is coming, we…