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ACDA NATIONAL
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference March 18-22, 2025 Dallas, Texas
Alphabetical Listing of Interest Sessions
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March 18-22 Dallas, TX R&R Forums and Deep Dives (Open to Both Tracks)
place where we need to recruit more students. If that’s
Deep Dive you, don’t worry. Just “shake it off” and get “ready for
it.” Join Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie as he shares a variety

Friday 8:00 am - 8:50 am of instructional games and materials for the middle
school/junior high classroom that will have your
National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe students feeling like they are the masterminds of choir.
Sanctuary Your students will be telling their friends “look what
they made me do. I had to sing back up for choir.” We
want everyone to have a choir era, so come out to this
True North: session and experience what you can do to make it true.

Exploring Canadian Repertoire
for Collegiate Choirs Presenter: Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie

This interactive session will provide an in-depth Deep Dive
look at select works for collegiate choirs by Matthew
Emery, Shireen Abu-Khader, Sarah Quartel, Katerina
Gimon, and Tracy Wong. Together, we will explore Saturday 8:00 am - 8:50 am
pedagogical and performance opportunities in these First United Methodist Church
works, experiencing the music and hearing directly from Crossroads
the composers.

Presenters: Caron Daley, Tracy Wong, and Shireen Dive in the Middle:
Abu-Khader
Deep Dive into MS/JH Repertoire

Junior High/Middle School Choirs Have you ever been at a point where you’re just not
sure where to begin with teaching a piece of music?
Maybe you think a piece is too difficult for your choir,
Forum or you’re not sure if you, can handle the challenge. Join
Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie, ACDA JH/MS National R&R
Chair, as he presents several selections to use in your
Thursday 8:00 am - 8:50 am middle-level choral classroom. He will break down
First United Methodist Church these pieces to provide instructional ways to teach each

Atrium piece, including a description of what type and level
of choir can handle each piece. There will be pieces
for treble, tenor-bass, and mixed choirs. He will also
In Our Choir Era present on different styles of teaching so you can see
a diverse approach in how success can happen in the
We all want students to fill one of their schedule’s middle school/junior high choir room.
blank spaces with choir/chorus! Perhaps you’re stuck on
how to retain students from year to year and you want Presenter: Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie
to “bejewel” them back? We’ve definitely all been in a

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