Name: Words & Music: Embedding Popular Music Education and Social and Emotional Learning Through Songwriting
Start: 2026-06-04T10:20:00-0400
End: 2026-06-04T10:45:00-0400

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Join us June 4–6 at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, as we celebrate the rhythms, relationships, and revolutions shaping popular music education.

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Words & Music: Embedding Popular Music Education and Social and Emotional Learning Through Songwriting

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am EDT

Volpe 203

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Words & Music teaching method supports songwriting and social emotional learning in the music classroom. This innovative approach provides teachers with intentional, embedded teaching strategies that help students craft original lyrics, build an emotional vocabulary, and learn how to compose music.

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Aaron Helvig

Director of School and Music Programs, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Aaron Helvig is the director of school and music programs at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. In this role, he guides curriculum-based programs for school audiences, as well as music-centered programs that serve schools, community organizations and general museum visitors. Among his... Read More →

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am EDT
Volpe 203 Volpe Building, San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, USA

🔦Demonstration (25), K-12

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