Innovative Leader
An innovative leader in music education is...
- Guiding and building bridges with others
- A vision of music education that focuses on learning built on generativity, vibrancy, and residue and seeking to share that vision with others
- Reflecting on new and better ideas and work at influencing others to create new and better ideas that result in positive outcomes
- Collaborating with my professional community to ask questions about systems of thought that discriminate against people and musical practice
- Saying “Yes” to all people and all music; being a hospitable individual and helping others learn how to be hospitable.
Responding through Musical Notation
This listening map was created to assist students in recognizing the dimensions of contour and direction in "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This listening map served as an outlet for expressing music, an aural art, in a concise, visual manner. Students were encouraged to trace the rainbows in the first few lines of the song so that they could then create their own listening map for the second two lines of the song. Though the goal was to teach contour and direction, students also reflected on dimensions such as melody and pitch. More information on this lesson plan can be found here.
Society for Music Theory Composers of Color Resource Project
In response to the recognition of social injustice during the summer of 2020, the Society for Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group created the Composers of Color Resource Project. Through biweekly meetings during the summer and monthly meetings during the semester, we have been able to compile resources for music theory and history professors to use in their classrooms. This was done by analyzing pieces of music with my colleagues and creating a database that is accessible to all educators. Some of the work I was involved in including analyzing and documenting ways we can use Florence Price's Sonata in E minor in the music theory classroom.