Joanie Calem - Sing Along - Folk Music for All

I am a general music teacher, instrumental music teacher, and arts integration teacher, focusing on community building through songs and stories. I am also an inclusion advocate, teaching teachers about invisible disabilities and learning differences.

Using music, movement, stories and games we explore how we can all get along and build a supportive classroom community where everyone has a place and everyone is respected and valued.

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BA in Music in Community Building Suzuki Piano Teacher Orff Level 1 Kodaly Level 1

Joanie Calem has been a music educator and performer, a songwriter and an inclusion advocate since 1983, and an autism parent since 1995. Both in her home studio and in her music classrooms throughout her teaching career, Joanie has had to integrate students with multiple special needs into one cohesive community, and early on learned about the practice of creating sensory friendly classrooms. Joanie leads teacher workshops, parent evenings and community conversations about educational equity and inclusion, with the aim of raising awareness of invisible disabilities, particularly the overlap between Sensory Processing Disorder, PTSD and ACES. Of late Joanie has been presenting on how these invisible disabilities appear in online learning and how children are affected by the educational upheavals of the past year. Additionally, Joanie works in the field of mental health, leading therapeutic song circles for residents of Permanent Supported Housing buildings, and teaches music in inclusive elementary schools. She is an active participant in many local endeavors to promote awareness of equity in community settings.