California Music Educators Association

CMEA Mentorship Mission

To promote teacher excellence by pairing experienced veteran music teachers with any CMEA music teacher who seeks a collegial exchange of professional teaching practices.

Our Qualified CMEA Mentors
Bob Athayde                              Michael Phenicie
Mitch Bahr                                 Jack Erb
David Bentancourt                      Sharon Evans
Mark Bidelman                           John Felder
Greg Brown                               Cathy Findley
Lisa Butts                                  Cyrus Ginwala
Robert Calonico                          Jonathan Grantham
Troy Davis                                 Sam Gronseth
Norm Dea                                  Fred Tempas
Bill Ingram                                 Cindy Teresi
John Koshak                               Nina Vigil
John Maltester                            Elizabeth Walsh
Richard Messenger                      Ella Webb
Nancy Moser                              Robin Wilmer
Larry Newman                            Edward Wolfe
Jim Norman                                Dale Wolford
Qualifications

What distinguishes a qualified CMEA Mentor?

  • Our mentors have seven or more years of teaching experience
  • Some are national board certified
  • Some are retired after a long successful career in music ed
  • Many have long, successful competition/festival performance experiences with consistent ratings of excellent or above
  • Many are experienced in other mentoring capacities such as BTSA or student teacher support
  • Many are leaders in such roles as serving on the state or local section board or other professional music organizations
  • Many present at conferences and adjudicate at festivals
  • Many receive prestigious Music Educator awards

Our qualified CMEA mentors are....
        ready to share their wealth of knowledge and success with you!

​The Benefits of CMEA Mentorship    (share your stories!)

​Richard Lyman

Dr. Nan McDonald