Guest Presenters Spotlight

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Summer Symposium Spotlight

Get ready for three inspiring days of music education, creativity, and connection! Join us in person or via livestream for Sing! Dance! Play! 2026 and learn from Stacy Werner, John Jacobson, Katie Grace Miller, and special guests through 15 hours of engaging professional development designed for today’s music classroom.

We’re featuring our LIVE guest presenters this week, along with all the sessions they’ll be sharing at Sing! Dance! Play! 2026.

Interactive Storytelling with Color-Coded Instruments

Participants will adapt a favorite book or create an original story designed to incorporate an interactive, play-along component. The session explores how color-coded systems can be used with tubes, bells, and other classroom instruments to support engagement, accessibility, and musical participation.

Sing, Move, and Play Dysregulation Away

Participants get to be the students and do the singing, moving, and playing as they learn a framework for hiding regulatory activities in their music lessons and practical activities and games that they can use right away. Dysregulation happens in many or our students, from Autistic and ADHD students, to students going through stress. Participants will participate in various regulation activities by adding pressure, heavy work, rotation, squeezing, inversion, breathing, somatic exercises and more into singing and other content-focused music games. Participants will also learn concepts to create their own regulation games, so students will leave calmer, happier, and more knowledgeable of music.

James Allen:

Play, Pulse and Possibility. Frame Drums in the Elementary Music Classroom

Discover hands-on strategies that bring frame drums to life as students speak, play, create, and collaborate through unison, canon, and world-rhythm experiences.  

Sing! Dance! Play!

Music Education is MONUMENTAL!

Washington, DC

July 10-12, 2026

Join us in-person or livestream for three days of inspiring professional development! Learn from Stacy Werner, John Jacobson, Katie Grace Miller, and special guests for 15 hours of engaging instruction. Get one-year access to all recorded sessions so you can watch anytime.

In Person - FREE REGISTRATION!   (only 200 spots available!)

Live Stream with Recorded Access  - $100 

Registration Link 

Musicplay Team Updates:

We wanted to take the opportunity to share some updates from the team:

Content Updates:

• Check again next week for future updates! 

Development Updates:

• New Drum Machine interactive
• New Staff Lesson bass resources
• Support for 2 beat rhythms in Word Rhythm Composition tool
• Added the ability to disable student codes 
• Navigation now remembers the last open state.
• Notifications can now be dismissed more easily