SBO+ and TI:ME, Technology in Music Education, are encouraging innovative music educators to share their strategies and techniques for how they have modernized music instruction in today's classrooms by applying to present professional development sessions in Ohio, New York, and Texas.
If you submit an accepted professional development proposal and can join us in 2025 in Rochester, Cleveland, or San Antonio, TX, you will present to enthusiastic like-minded innovative music educators, while helping those attending get professional development credit, and skills to bring their programs firmly into the 21st century.
Be certain to describe your technology proposal as a TI:ME Session in your application description so it makes it to the TI:ME conference team inboxes for review!
We particularly encourage you to submit to NYSSMA and OMEA. These are great winter conferences, with active, engaged attendees who want to make their programs better through music technology integration. TMEA, the world's largest show, is more competitive for presenters, but also TI:ME's biggest partner event of the year. All three are loads of fun, and a great experience for both presenters and attendees. Submit to one or all three.
- NYSSMA Conference – Rochester, NY, December 5–7, 2024 Proposal deadline: April 26, 2024
Link to NYSSMA Submission Form
- OMEA Conference – Cleveland, OH, February 6–8, 2025 Submission portal open April 1–May 31, 2024 Link to OMEA Submission Portal
- TMEA Conference – San Antonio, TX, February 12–15, 2025 Proposal Period: May 1–June 1, 2024
Link to TMEA Proposal Page
TI:ME and SBO+ will be partnering again with other state MEAs, and we will announce proposals for those soon.
Please let me know if you have any questions!

Mike Lawson – Executive Director, TI:ME Publisher, SBO+ Magazine mike@sbomagazine.com execdirector@ti-me.org
TI:ME is a 501-c3 Tennessee registered nonprofit, established in 1995, to help modernize how traditional music programs are taught, and lead the innovation of new music education initiatives through partnerships with state MEA organizations and NAMM. |