Clearinghouse of Corroborative Materials for
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
Booster Session at the Annual PMEA Conference
We hope you had the opportunity to attend our booster brainstorming session on Saturday morning at the 2026 PMEA Annual Conference in Kalahari/Poconos. This previous blog-post references the IT TAKES A VILLAGE workshop’s description, objectives, and “hot topics” to help lead collaborative discussions among the attendees. It is our hope that in future conferences, we will schedule additional venues to share local strategies and “best practices” to build numbers and the engagement of its booster members, improve their overall effectiveness and efficiency, “re-energize” their support groups’ mission, vision, goals, and action plans, and provide tips and tools to guide their associations’ motivations, actions, and legal compliance.
These were the handouts and samples distributed on April 25, 2026. They are reprinted here with the permission of the authors, members on the session’s guest panel (and many of whom have presented on this subject at past conferences).
- IT TAKES A VILLAGE Music Booster Sharing Session Handout
- CHRIS MARRA – Many Hands Make Light Work Handout 2024
- HENRY PEARLBERG – Sample Articles of Organization and Bylaws
- RICH VICTOR – Advocacy for Baldwin Parents (password = BHMP12413)
When they become available, additional files will be posted for download in the space below.
Two References on “Music Boosters”
If you are planning to start or enhance your own school music support group, consider a purchase of these publications (Amazon):
Music Booster Manual, published by MENC – The National Association for music Education (1989)
Staying Connected… Across the Commonwealth
If you would like to sign-up to receive future emails of additional music parent/director support group resources, please click here. If there is sufficient interest, we will send out communications with additional research, forms, workshop handouts, etc.
Finally, if you have something you would like to share with the stakeholders (parents, directors, community members) of the PMEA music booster affiliates, send an email with Word or PDF files to paulkfox.usc@gmail.com (use subject line “boosters”).
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