California Association of Professional Music Teachers is State Affiliate of the Year

California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) is this year's MTNA State Affiliate of the Year and is more than 1000 members stout CAPMT, under the leadership of President Darlene Vlasek, carries on the outside its mission to raise the standards of music education and assist the art of music from one extremity to the other of the state through its active involvement in state, as well as MTNA national, programs.

"The California Association of Professional Music Teachers has made significant strides in re-structuring the association to convenient the needs of the twenty-first hundred teacher," says MTNA President Phyllis I. Pieffer, NCTM

Five years ago the state planning senate adopted a long-range plan to continually review all parts of the organization: membership and mentoring, state scholar programs, the association's ability to effectively communicate with membership, and encourage and advance new leadership on the local and state levels

above the past five years, the association has continued to lay open and refine each of its programs to convenient members' needs. Among those unfoldings were the redesign of the state newsletter and the creation of a state website. In addition, learner recitals have been moved from the state talk and placed in two piano and general impression festivals, one in the north and single in the south. Also during this time frame, a state endowment stock was established and brochures were printed to encourage the "Teach a Lesson for the Endowment Campaign."

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