Professional Development Offerings
CMSS is a opens in a new windowMassachusetts DESE accredited PD Provider for the following content areas: Safe & Supportive Learning Environments, Arts: Performing Arts, and Special Education-General. We are happy to provide PDP Hours Certificates for MA educators for the PDs below after completion of an assessment of learning.
Adaptive Music and Neurodivergent Learners
Intro to Adaptive Music Education
This six-hour course is for in-service general music teachers who are looking for philosophy, language, tools, and activities to support their work with students with disabilities including autism. Music Therapist Jen Kass (MA, MT-BC) and Adaptive Music Program Director Jessica Corwin of the Community Music School of Springfield (MA) will give participants tools to bring to their classrooms for accommodation, meaningful inclusion, joyful music-making, and social connection. Topics will include anti-ableist language, neurodivergence-affirming practices, current research on autism, learning differences and corresponding teaching strategies, and the imperative of listening to neurodivergent voices. Participants will engage in a variety of sample classroom activities that can be replicated in their own classrooms.
♫ August 15th, 9 am-3 pm, ACCEPT Collaborative in Natick, Massachusetts. Registration details TBA.
♫ Online in the summer, 3 days of 2 hours each, dates TBA.