From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Your Instructor
Dr. Patricia Hoy
Dr. Patricia Hoy has more than thirty years’ experience in a variety of performance, conducting, and arts education management roles, including seventeen years as the Director of Bands at Northern Arizona University. She served as a guest conductor with the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with the Eugene Ballet Company, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Ballet Memphis, the Tucson Pops Orchestra, the Mesa Symphony, as well as high school regional and all-state bands in more than thirty states.
Dr. Hoy is motivated to help others learn the value of arts-based learning. She blends the powerful lessons that come from her diverse background as an arts administrator, conductor, performer, and higher education professor with the natural elements of the artistic process to shape multi-disciplinary learning experiences for students, educators, individuals, businesses, and organizations.
Pat is the author of her recently released book—Arts Awareness: A Fieldbook for Awakening Creative Consciousness in Everyday Life. Her book is the source for a series of publications and presentations regarding the depth of knowledge that can come from arts-based learning including: Better Group Communication; Enduring Principles for Creating an Impassioned, Innovative, and Thriving Community; Thriving Together; Passion, Purpose, Persistence; Reaching Our Full Potential; Finding Passion in Your Performance; Arts Awareness Teaching Strategies; The Shaping Force of Musical Patterns; Successful Performance: Creating Momentum and Meaning.
As an educator, speaker, and coach, Pat draws from her vast experience to share stories that demonstrate how experiences in the arts can lead to more conscious decision-making, increased productivity, enhanced communication, better relationships, and creative thinking. Arts Awareness is for educators who want to explore the deeper learning that can help their students thrive. It’s for those in organizations who face the difficult task of thriving in a rapidly changing world. It’s for anyone who wants to succeed and reconnect with the love of what they do.
Dr. Hoy holds bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of Redlands and a doctoral degree from the University of Arizona.
Course Curriculum
Transform Your Band and Orchestra Rehearsals
Building Arts Awareness
Welcome (1:04)
Imaginative Power
What Does it Mean to Be Musical?
Engaging More Deeply with the Artistic Process
Beyond Summative Performance Rubrics
Creating Momentum and Meaning
Before You Begin
Wholeness
Musical Energy
Think Strategically (0:52)
Decision-Making Process
Why Did You Play Louder (2:41)
The Nature of Tension and Release Moments
Expand Your Viewpoint
Three Examples
The Power of Silence
Four Techniques of Engagement
Enriched Experiences
Build Big Ideas
Everything is Connected (1:37)
Deeper, More Meaningful Experiences
Creating and Integrating Big Ideas
Create Interesting Questions
Make a Commitment
Practice with Connection
Focused Effort
Emotional Engagement
In a Nutshell
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