The document discusses communicating the impact and curriculum of the Stax Music Academy (SMA) to stakeholders. SMA aims to nurture students to become accomplished musicians and self-actualized citizens, as expressed in their mission statement. A student testimony highlights how SMA teaches areas like music alongside life skills. Teachers are tasked with creating a syllabus that conveys both the explicit technical curriculum as well as the implicit lessons imparted by SMA's environment. An effective syllabus communicates curriculum goals to stakeholders and influences student understanding.

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What Do Y’all Do?
Communicating the Impact of the Stax Music
Academy

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What does SMA do for kids?
 Think/Pair/Share
 Think: silently consider the prompt.
 Pair: turn to the person beside you and talk about it.
 Share: tell the class what you talked about.
(Step one is SILENT…so no talking until the teacher calls “Pair!”)

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What do we intend to do?
 From the website:
“Stax Music Academy exists to nurture and present the next
great generation of Soul Communicators.”
 http://www.staxmusicacademy.org/about-us/our-mission/

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What do the kids say we do?
 Unseal the paper and read Jada’s testimony.
 Highlight what she says she learns at SMA.
 Essential question: What key areas of curriculum are alluded to
in Jada’s testimony?

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SMA teaches students
how to be
accomplished,
idiomatic musicians
and self-actualized
citizens.
We do that.
YOU do that.

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Who need’s to know what we do?
 Soulsville campus – TSCS, SMASM, Foundation
 Shelby County Schools
 Our students
 Our students families
 Music educators from around the world
 Memphis’s top donors
 Who else?

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How will they know?
What are methods for
communicating what we do
with our stakeholders?

8. It is our responsibility, as
entrepreneurial educators, to
communicate our curricula –
both overt and hidden – to our
stakeholders.

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Where do you find the curricula?
 Overt: The written curricula; the materials listed in the syllabus;
designated content that students should learn from participating
in this education.
 Hidden: The implicit curricula; the understandings from which
the overt curricula are decided; content gathered by the
learning environment itself.

10. The syllabus is a site for overt and
hidden curriculum.
What we write matters.
If it matters, we need to write it.

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The Syllabus
A workshop.

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The assignment:
 Create a syllabus for your ensemble that communicates the
overt and hidden curricula as appropriate for a Stax Music
Academy course.
 This is due to Justin by Friday, December 19th.
 Use your work time wisely – you should be able to finish today.

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Resources
 Check your e-mail: SN@P! Ensemble Goals attachment
 Paul’s jazz band syllabus (Please, forward .)
 Any online examples helpful.
 Follow the syllabus template from Cornell University.
 Cornell University syllabus resources