IVfME Webinar Series 2025-2026
Shaping Behavior with “ABC” and “STOP” Techniques – Part 2
Presenter: Dr. Elaine Bernstorf
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Fall brings opportunities to reframe our teaching approaches. It also brings new students and their personal learning behaviors. Even students we have taught for years change and have challenges as they mature, or don’t. By October all students shape their personal dynamics within a group.
Part 1 (Oct 4), explored common music classroom behaviors, including disruptions, using an ABC analysis model to explore behavior functions for difficult or disruptive behaviors.
Part 2 (Oct 18), THIS WEBINAR, uses the STOP principle (an intervention designed by occupational therapists) to shape student behaviors and inform teacher planning using executive function decisions to support success. References and suggested resources will be included.
Elaine Bernstorf is Professor of Music Education at Wichita State University. With degrees in Special Music Education and a PhD in Communicative Disorders and Sciences, her specializations include elementary music, special music education, and speech pathology (voice, fluency, autism and child language), literacy development, and curriculum development. She co-authored The Music and Literacy Connection (2004, 2014, in press). She has published several book chapters, presented and served internationally and nationally including ISME, ISAME, NAfME, OAKE, ECMMA, Arts Education Partnership and the Leadership Network for Arts Education & Special Needs. In 2017, she was inducted in the Kansas Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.
Dr. Elaine Bernstorf
Wichita State University, Wichita KS
Lift Every Voice: Building Authentic & Inclusive Classrooms
Presenter: Dr. Preston Wilson
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Dr. Preston Wilson, Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, leads an interactive workshop that equips educators with strategies to create inclusive classrooms, where all students feel valued and supported. Participants will explore approaches to integrating diverse cultural perspectives, addressing accessibility, and fostering an environment of respect and creativity.
In June of 2021, Dr. Wilson graduated from the University of Missouri (Columbia), obtaining a PhD in Music Education. He successfully defended his dissertation entitled, Successful Urban Elementary Music Educator: A Phenomenological Investigation; which focuses on the lived experiences of urban music teachers in elementary schools. His research agenda also includes race relations in music and practical application of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Upson graduation, Dr. Wilson served as the Assistant Professor of Music Education at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ from 2021-2024, before returning to his alma mater.
Dr. Wilson is the Chair of Diversity Initiatives for TN-ACDA, a member of Steering Committee for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, and on the Board of Directors for the Nashville African American Wind Symphony, Inc. He also is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity, Inc., Pi Kappa Lambda, American Choral Directors’ Association (ACDA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and College Music Society (CMS).
Dr. Preston Wilson
Fisk University, Nashville TN
Shaping Behavior with “ABC” and “STOP” Techniques – Part 1
October 4, 2025
Presenter: Dr. Elaine Bernstorf
Fall brings opportunities to reframe our teaching approaches. It also brings new students and their personal learning behaviors. Even students we have taught for years change and have challenges as they mature, or don’t. By October all students shape their personal dynamics within a group.
Part 1 (Oct 4), THIS WEBINAR, explored common music classroom behaviors, including disruptions, using an ABC analysis model to explore behavior functions for difficult or disruptive behaviors.
Dr. Elaine Bernstorf
Wichita State University, Wichita KS
IVfME Webinar Series 2024-2025
- Grant Writing 102: Writing Persuasive Proposals and Budgets
Presenter: Dr. LaSaundra Belcher
Use the passcode: F@^2*Pq3 - Presenting Native American Music to Various Ages In Music Education
Presenter: Michelle McCauley, M.M.E.
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- Universal Design for Learning for Inclusive Music Classrooms
Presenter: Dr. Amanda Draper
Use the passcode: 4^0Ep@XEAdditional Resources from the Webinar:
Resources from Previous IVfME Webinars
- Is It Worth It Rubric – from Jasmine Fripp, AKA The Passionate Black Educator
- Latin American Music for Young Wind Bands Handout – from Rubén Darío Gómez, DMA
- Choral Songs from Latin America – from Dr. Diana V. Sáez
- Hanacpachap – The first piece of vocal polyphony published in The Americas – from Dr. Diana V. Sáez
- Native American Resources – from Michelle McCauley, M.M.E.
Additional Resources
- Cook Ross Reports
- Multicultural Awareness Commission History
- Culturally Responsive Teaching by Dr. Connie McKoy
- Who Enrolls in High School Music?
- NCMEA Declaration of Intent
- Johnathan Hamiel President’s Message (See pp. 8-9)
- NCMEA Mentoring Program
- Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform
- Co-creating: students bring something in and the teacher ties it into the classroom (Jazzmone Sutton)
- Responding to Difference: Teaching Students How to Respond Internally to Something New (Jazzmone Sutton)
- “WOW, This is going to be awesome!”
- “This will be interesting”
- Take a Deep Breath
- VIDEOS: IVfME Webinar Series 2021-2022.
- VIDEO: Multiculturalism in the World of Chamber Music featuring Guest Lecturer Jonathan C. Kramer, Ph.D.
For more information, contact
IVfME Chair Lillie Allmond Harris
[email protected].