Music Ed Forward Podcast

May 24 2022 24 ep. 38 mins 16
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The Music Ed Forward podcast empowers teachers and arts leaders understand the possibilities and overcome the challenges within music education. How do we create meaningful learning opportunities for students that will stick with them? How do we design professional learning opportunities for teachers that make curriculum come alive for students? Nyssa walks with you, step by step, uniting frameworks and theory with daily classroom practice with inspiration and ease. Need some encouragement to continue your journey as an innovative music educator? You’ve come to the right place! Join the global Music Ed Forward community in transforming students, teachers and communities through music education. More info at musicedforward.com

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Music Education for Social Change - interview with Dr. Juliet Hess

May 24 2022 49 mins  
Dr. Juliet Hess offers both theory and practical suggestions about how music classrooms are uniquely poised to inspire and support social change at the intersections of activism, critical pedagogy, and music education. Highlighting the framework and specific examples from her book Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education, Dr. Hess shares her resea

Music Education and SEL: The Heart of Teaching Music

Oct 12 2021 40 mins  
As music educators, we are well aware of the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL), especially in the wake of pandemic learning and teaching. But what might it look like in the music classrooms? What opportunities are we including - and missing - for seamless inclusion of SEL in music ed? This podcast with Dr. Scott Edgar focuses on the possibilities for practicing SEL in t

Do Your Students Know (Your Why)?

Sep 20 2021 12 mins  
Do students know why you show up at school every day? Could sharing your “why” help you connect with students - and possibly even invite more student agency in your classroom? This episode contains an invitation to look beyond the day-to-day and embrace the big picture of what is possible in and through our music classrooms - and what role your “why” might play in the proce

Empowering Student Voice and Centering Joy in Black Lives Matter and AAPI Communities - interview with Alice Tsui

May 19 2021 49 mins  
Alice Tsui joins us on the podcast this week to talk about how to create brave spaces that empower student and collective voice while centering joy in Black Lives Matter and AAPI communities. Alice’s Insta videos @musicwithmissalice demonstrate her inspirational approach to working with her students and her school community. In this podcast she shares very practical ideas for mov

Visioning Forward: Centering Students, Facing Fear, and Reshaping Music Education - interview with Maria A. Ellis

May 12 2021 46 mins  
From start to finish in this podcast, Girl Conductor - Ms. Maria A. Ellis - offers her wisdom, passion, and sheer joy in teaching and learning! Maria shares how she starts classes the first time she meets students with the intention of building relationships and knowing her students’ musical preferences. She tells her own story about being rejected from a music education training

Imperative Curriculum Re-Design in Music Ed: 3 Ways to Adjust Course Now and in the Future

Apr 27 2021 51 mins  
As music educators, we’ve learned too much this past year to go back to “normal,” as soon as pandemic safety allows. From the lessons of pandemic teaching to the anti-bias/anti-racist lessons learned this past year - curriculum re-design in music education is not an option. It is imperative. This podcast outlines three small but mighty steps that we can implement starting tod

Claiming Agency for Change: Inspiring the Music Educators of Tomorrow” - interview with Dr. Carlos Abril

Apr 23 2021 61 mins  
Dr. Carlos Abril joins us in the podcast today to talk about the current role - and the potential future impact - of colleges and universities in moving music education forward. He has a clear and cogent vision for the kind of music educators he’d like to inspire and empower - those who become leaders in the field and agents of change in music ed. Join us for this thoughtful and

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E- The Hate U Give Little Instruments F***s Education - Part II - interview with Jasmine Fripp

Apr 05 2021 59 mins  
In part 2 of this conversation with The Passionate Black Educator, Jasmine Fripp, highlights the importance of music educators being fluent in diverse styles of music in order to serve and empower our students as musicians and humans. We also talk about ear training, music notation (including and beyond Western notation), and being “clouded by our own nostalgia” - and how to mo

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. - The Hate U Give Little Instruments F***s Education

Mar 26 2021 45 mins  
In this episode, Jasmine Fripp, The Passionate Black Educator, talks about the ways music educators, our music classrooms, and our music curricula “give hate” - whether we are aware of it or not. Jasmine lists specific examples of ways our “hate” - intended or not - impacts our students, and how we can adjust our teaching practices so our classrooms and curricula are welcom

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access: What’s the Hold-Up? - an interview with Dr. Karen Howard

Mar 11 2021 68 mins  
Shouldn’t diversity, equity, inclusion, and access be central to all of our learning with students and teachers? Dr. Karen Howard shares context and practices to further diversity, equity, inclusion, and access and move music education forward. With a focus on teaching practices in music education and beyond, Dr. Howard shares her research, as well as the research of others, to i