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Publication Type: Full Paper Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Leadership is such a critical element in any profession. Individuals from within the profession are needed to guide, to direct and to influence others if goals are to be achieved. In the United States of America, MENC: The National Association for Music Education has established the lofty goal of including music encounters in the education of every child, but are far from achieving it. In some elementary schools that educate young children ages three through eleven, the systematic study of music does not begin until age nine. Some high schools that educate adolescents, ages fourteen through eighteen, have fewer than twenty percent of students enrolled in any music class. What is the answer to this problem? As teachers we must all think of ourselves as leaders and show our students the ways in which music can bring joy and meaning to their lives. Music educators who are leaders should model professional practices that provide direction and serve to guide the profession. Leaders in music education show courage in the struggle to help others understand that music is more than just entertainment. If, as postulated above, displaying initiative, providing appropriate models, guiding others and directing change with courage are characteristic of good leaders, then how does one go about preparing leaders in the profession? Perhaps part of the solution is to develop the leadership potential of our young music educators in the profession; they are our future. We are in need of developing new practical approaches to promoting leadership among young music teacher educators. The purpose of this paper is to describe one such approach to leadership development, the Nebraska Music Educators Association (NMEA) Leadership Retreat, and to illustrate in detail one of the sessions of that Retreat, the session on futurism, which focused on helping young leaders to become “agents of change” in their profession. The purpose of describing one of the Leadership Retreat sessions, entitled “Developing Change Agents for the Future of Music Education in Schools,” for the listener/reader is two-fold: (1) to help the listener/reader understand the content of the leadership retreat and (2) to describe for the listener/reader the diversity of the “landscape” which is music education in the United States so that he/she might relate this “landscape” to his/her own country and provide new perspectives on these issues (many of which I suspect are universal) for the benefit of all in attendance.

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