2021 Symposium on Music Teacher Education
Revitalizing our Community
September 23-25, 2021
Held virtually
Day 1 – Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021
All times listed are Eastern.
1:00PM – 3:00PM
SMTE Executive Board & ASPA Facilitator Meeting
Link to meeting distributed via email
3:00PM – 5:00PM
JMTE Editorial Board Meeting
Mentoring Sessions
7:00PM – 7:30PM
Welcome & Introductions
David Rickels, SMTE Chair
Immediately following introductions - 9:00PM
Susan Wharton Conkling Keynote address
Rhonda V. Magee
University of San Francisco
Day 2 – Friday, Sept. 24, 2021
All times listed are Eastern.
10:00AM – 10:45AM
Mentoring and Health & Wellness Sessions
The Moving Musician: An Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method
Stephen A. Paparo, Facilitator
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11:00AM – 11:25AM
Opening Session: Introduction and ASPA Overview
11:30AM – 12:25PM
ASPA Meetings
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Critical Examination of the Curriculum
Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for Music Teacher Education
Music Teacher Educators: Recruitment, Preparation, and Professional Development
Music Teacher Health and Wellness
Music Teacher Identity Development
Policy
Professional Development for Music Teachers
Program Admission, Assessment, and Alignment
School/University Partnerships
Supporting Beginning Music Teachers
Teacher Evaluation
Teacher Recruitment
12:30PM – 1:00PM
Presentation Session 1
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Grow Your Own Music Educators?: Understanding GYOs Through the Voices of Students of Color
Adrian Barnes
A Profile of Community College Students as Preservice Music Educators
Diana Dansereau & Michael Sundblad
Well-being and Adaptability Among Music Teacher Educators
Nicholas Roseth & Jennifer Blackwell
“What do I do now?”: An Exploration of First Year Music Teachers’ Persistence
Stephanie Prichard
Undergraduate Credit Hours in Music Education: A Discussion of Practices and Implications
Andrea Maas, Aaron Wacker, & Ashley Allen
Formative Experiences of DEI Leaders in Music Education Organizations
Karen Salvador & Amy Sierzega
Nobody Wants to Be the First One to Say Anything About It: Opening Up Space for Dialogues about Healthy Musicianship
Ann Marie Stanley, Carla Salas-Ruiz, & Joshua Burgos
Secondary Music Programs: Administrator Perspectives and Hiring Practices [view slides]
Jocelyn Prendergast, Jill Wilson, & Kevin Droe
In-service Choral Teachers’ Perceptions of Pre-Service Teacher Readiness
Cara Bernard & Nicholas McBride
1:05PM – 1:35PM
Presentation Session 2
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Perceptions and Experiences of Preservice Music Educators Working with Students with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study
Rachel Grimsby
The Tetrad of Collaboration: A New Framework for Communication in Student Teaching
Jamie Gunther
The Somatic Music Teacher: Embracing Mind-body Education in Music Teacher Education
Stephen Paparo & Judy Palac
Confronting Ableism in Music Teacher Education
Brian Weidner & Becca Mattson
Graduate Student-Led Mentoring for New(ish) Music Teachers
Dennis Giotta, Allison Paetz, & Adrienne Bedell
Popular Music Pedagogy: A Loving Critique
Steve Holley, Kat Reinhert, José Valentino Ruiz, Cassandra O’Neal, & Sarah Gulish
Recent College Graduates with Bachelor’s Degrees in Music Education: A Demographic Profile [slides]
David DeAngelis
Integrated Music Education for Cross-Curricular Learning: Perspectives and Practices of Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Daniel Johnson, Kristin Harney, & Amorette Languell
Pathways to the Profession for Under-Represented Minority Music Students
Jacob Berglin
“Wellness Starts with Me”: Choir Teacher Wellness Experiences and Perceptions
Colleen McNickle
1:45PM – 2:45PM
Graduate Research Forum & Poster Session
3:00PM – 3:30PM
Presentation Session 3
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Listen, Learn, Read On: A Case Study on Developing Music Literacy Through Popular Music Experiences
Samuel Tsugawa & Brittany May
#TheSocialExperiment: Music Educators’ Perspectives of Social Media Use and Social Justice Engagement
Sandra Adorno, Candice Davenport Mattio & Melissa Ryan
Virtual Service Learning for Preservice Choral Educators: Lessons from the “Field” [slides]
Emily LaSalle & Joshua Palkki
Collaborating to Design and Implement a Constructivist Curriculum for Beginning Instrumentalists
Barry Hartz & Elizabeth Bahr
Discovering Our Why: Coaching Tools for the Music Educator
Erin Zaffini & Ashley Hall
The Sound of All of Us: Community, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Musicianship
Robin Giebelhausen & Bri’Ann Wright
Trauma-Informed Music Teacher Education: Preparing Future Teachers and Meeting Their Needs as Students
Rebecca DeWan
Making Learning Visible through Documentation: Creating a Culture of Inquiry among Preservice Music Teachers
Vanessa Bond
A Virtual Lab School: Developing a Multi-state Public School University Partnership to Benefit Minority Students
Donald Devito, Gena Greher, & Sangmi Kang
Faculty Perspectives on the Master’s Degree in Music Education
Gregory Springer, Kari Adams, & Jessica Napoles
3:35PM – 4:05PM
Presentation Session 4
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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Principles, Teaching Strategies, and Implications for Music Educators
Adrienne Bedell
Self-Study to Consider Curricula in Music Teacher Education
Colleen Conway, Michael Vecchio, & Rebekah Weaver
The Rs: Relationships, Rhetoric, and Real-Talk
Sommer Forrester, Karin Hendricks, & Shannan Hibbard
A Spiraled Approach to Embedding SEL In the Pre-Service Music Teacher Curricula
Melissa Lloyd
Face-to-Face vs. Online Peer Teaching: Comparing Preservice Music Teachers’ Reflections
Rachel Sorenson, Devan Moore, & Gregory Springer
Exploring the Rural Music Teacher Experience through Online Professional Development
Daniel Johnson, Ann Marie Stanley, & Tim Nowak
Engaging Anti-Racist Pedagogy as Professional Development: A Collective Case Study
Jamey Kelley, Kelsey Nussbaum, & Tzefira Jones
Queer Futurity in Music Teacher Education: Voices from the Field
Don Taylor, Tyler Hudson, & Kaleb Schumann
Rethinking “Bad Behavior”: A Trauma-informed Response to “Acting out” in Music Education
Juliet Hess
Experiences of a Music Education Student Using Therapeutic Writing in a Songwriting Class
Mark Adams
4:05PM – 4:45PM
Poster Session 1
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5:00PM – 5:50PM
Plenary Session 1
“What’s Going On?” Critical Race Theory in a Time of Disinformation
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the album What’s Going On? by prolific singer, songwriter, and producer Marvin Gaye. This concept album featured songs encompassing a wealth of domestic and international issues, ranging from police brutality to pollution to war and poverty. Whether you choose to “drop the needle” at the beginning of “Mercy, Mercy Me” or at the end of the first verse of “Wholy Holy”, you will hear Gaye’s unwavering commitment to thoughtfully and profoundly rendering critical perspectives that continue to be significant in this current time of (dis)information. In this session, What’s Going On? is both the question we ask and the framework we use to examine the distortions regarding what critical race theory (CRT) is and is not. Like Gaye’s song cycle, we hope that in our efforts to inform, we will inspire and instigate critical thought and the action necessary to confront injustice and engender systemic change.
6:00PM – 6:45PM
Poster Session 2
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8:00PM – 9:00PM
University Receptions
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Boston University
Kent State University
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Florida
University of Michigan
Day 3 – Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021
All times listed are Eastern.
10:00AM – 10:45AM
Mentoring and Health & Wellness Sessions
Guided Mindfulness: Metaphorically Breathing In to Prepare for Connection
H. Ellie Wolfe and Lisa Martin, Facilitators
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Engaging in an activity—any activity from teaching to musicking to conference-going and beyond—can be enhanced through bringing an intentional, non-judgmental awareness to the present moment, or a mindfulness-based approach. This type of awareness can be developed through practice with guidance and in self-exploration. In this session, we will spend some time discussing how our own mindfulness practices prepare us for connecting with students, colleagues, and content through first connecting with our interconnected embodied, emotional, and thinking selves. Primarily, we will spend our time together engaging in guided mindfulness practices that reflect different ways of developing awareness of the self. Attendees with any level of experience with mindfulness are welcome to join us
11:00AM – 11:45AM
Division Meetings
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Eastern (CT, DE, DC, EU, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI)
North Central (IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, NE, ND, OH, SD, WI)
Northwestern (AL, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY)
Southern (AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Southwestern (AR, CO, KS, MO, NM, OK, TX)
Western (AZ, CA, HI, NV, UT)
12:00PM – 12:30PM
Presentation Session 5
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The Hidden Neoliberalism of Social Emotional Learning: Concerns for Equity
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
A Phenomenology of First-Year Music Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Marta Frey-Clark, Justin West, & Olivia Tucker
Music Cooperating Teachers’ Perceptions of the University Cooperating Teacher Partnership
Colleen Conway &Molly Baugh
An Investigation of Access and Exclusion to Music Education Programs at Big Ten Universities
Erika Knapp & Whitney Mayo
Preservice Teacher Lesson Planning through Mind Mapping Exercises
Ryan Shaw & Sandra Snow
Instrumental Music Education in Rural North Carolina: A Case Study
Catheryn Foster & Melody Causby
Adolescent Voice Change and Trans and Gender-Expansive Singers: A Survey of Secondary Choir Teachers
Jessica McKiernan
It’s Not as Simple as Black and White: The Cross-Cultural & Racial Experiences of a Music Education Doctoral Student and His Advisor
Lonnie Easter II & Christopher Baumgartner
Examination of the Experiences of Five BIPOC Students in Music Education
Jill Wilson & Natalie Steele Royston
Revitalizing Post-COVID Instrumental Music Education: Facilitating Standards-Based Assessment of Individual Students’ Music Achievement and Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Alden Snell II, David Stringham, Michael Stewart, Lisa Caravan, Heidi Lucas, Alvin Simpson III
12:35PM – 1:05PM
Presentation Session 6
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What Does Culture Have to Do with Social Justice?
Joseph Abramo
MTE Mothers: Finding Balance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rachel Grimsby & Ashley Allen
School Culture Change Through the Arts: A Case Study of the Turnaround Arts Program
Cara Bernard & Ryan Shaw
Barriers Facing Latinx Music Educators
Ruben Alcala
Grief as Transformation: Music Teacher Identity and Traumatic Loss
Colleen Sears
On Being Black, Brown and Asian in a Field of White: A Panel by Students of Color
Kay Piña, Marjoris Regus, Lorelei Batislaong, & Miguel Garcia
The Music Teacher Preparation Initiative: Expanding Our Vision of What It Means to Be a Music Educator
Deborah Confredo, David Rickels, Cecil Adderley, & Carlos Abril
An Examination of Community College Articulation Agreements at a Midwestern University in Regards to the Music Education Degree
Natalie Royston, Phillip Payne, Adrian Barnes, & Kate Bertelli-Wilinski
Music in a Crisis: The Experiences of Three Music Educators after the Camp Fire
Sarah Van Dusen
Agency, Identity, and Professional Development: A Collaborative Action Research Study of a Middle School Orchestra Teacher
Samuel Tsugawa & Marcus Voght
1:10PM – 1:50PM
Mentoring and Health & Wellness Sessions
“Breathe Out”: A step-by-step guide to starting a wellness program for music students
Melissa Baughman & Michelle McConkey, Facilitators
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The need to address our music students’ well-being is more important now than ever. During the past year, I was invited to create a wellness program for our music students at the University of Oklahoma called “Breathe OUt”, which has turned into a truly rewarding, helpful, and successful endeavor. In this session, I will provide an overview of “Breathe OUt” and offer specific guidance to attendees who want to use it as a model to begin a wellness program for their own students. I will walk you through everything you may need to get started including savvy marketing strategies (eye-catching flyers, merchandise, social media); recruiting and engaging student helpers; making the most of a small budget; and organizing wellness activities such as yoga or meditation (even if you’re not an expert on either). I will also encourage other music wellness coordinators to share their own tips and tricks for success. Please join us for this opportunity to learn from each other so we can bring the absolute best care to our music students!
2:00PM – 2:50PM
Poster Session 3
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3:00PM – 3:50PM
ASPA Meetings
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Critical Examination of the Curriculum
Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for Music Teacher Education
Music Teacher Educators: Recruitment, Preparation, and Professional Development
Music Teacher Health and Wellness
Music Teacher Identity Development
Policy
Professional Development for Music Teachers
Program Admission, Assessment, and Alignment
School/University Partnerships
Supporting Beginning Music Teachers
Teacher Evaluation
Teacher Recruitment
4:00PM – 4:50PM
Poster Session 4
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5:00PM – 5:45PM
Closing Plenary Session
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Journal of Music Teacher Education’s 30th Anniversary
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The current editor (James Austin) and past editors (Janice Killian, William Fredrickson, Hilary Apfelstadt) will share stories and perspectives on the journal’s origin, mission, and published scholarship, and consider how the journal may continue to evolve in relation to the work of various ASPAs, emerging areas and forms of research, and the current symposium theme.
5:45PM – 6:45PM
Symposium Summary & Closing Remarks
David Rickels, SMTE Chair