JEN enthusiastically announces the appointment of Sharon Burch to the position of Managing Director. Burch, who served on the Board of Directors as Secretary and also Chairs JEN's education committee, has been actively involved with the organization since its first conference nine years ago.  She brings a wealth of educational experience at all academic levels, along with a strong background as a music educator, entrepreneur (having created and authored a series of books focused on music education for children), presenter and education consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center. She may be contacted at Sharon.Burch@jazzednet.org.  Please join us in congratulating Sharon in her new capacity!




Happy Ninth Anniversary, JEN!
June 1st marks JEN's Ninth Anniversary!  We are proud to celebrate this important day in our history with all of you, since it is JEN's members who make the organization such a vital part of the jazz music and education community.  With your continued participation, JEN will continue to grow and celebrate many more anniversaries to come! Share what JEN means to you, or how it has helped you on your musical journey, by visiting @jazzednet on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts and tagging your posts with #JENturns9.






JEN Launches Chapters & Societies Initiative

As part of its mission to buiild the jazz arts comunity, JEN has launched a new Chapters & Societies Initiative.  Institutions at the university, college, high school, junior high, and community music school levels can now organize their students to develop an Educational Chapter to take advantage of all JEN member benefits, including hosting events on-campus. We are also introducing a Jazz Societies program, where people excited about Jazz can form clubs and organizations to host activities in their region and take advantage of additional benefits available specifically to Jazz Socities.  Watch JEN President Caleb Chapman's video for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zePNdhu3XkY.  
And visit www.jazzednet.org/ChapOrgInfo.

Thank you for a successful #jen17 Conference!  Watch the video recap!
Artists and audiences have headed home after an epic time in New Orleans. But the #jen17 Conference is ONLY THE BEGINNING of what is going to be a great year for Jazz Education. And we're excited to take that journey together with you as one JEN family.  (And let's not forget Dallas in 2018, either!)  Click here to view the #jen17 Conference Highlights recap! (video produced by Mojo Factory Productions)