2020 New Directions in Music Education
FINAL SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 27, 2020
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6:00 – 6:30 |
Welcome
Lincoln Room
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6:30 – 7:45 |
Opening Keynote: What Does It Mean to Hold Schools Accountable in the Anthropocene?
Jack Schneider
Lincoln Room
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7:45 – 9:00 |
Opening Reception
Featuring Musical Entertainment from MSU College of Music Jazz Department
Lincoln Room
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Friday, February 28, 2020
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Auditorium |
Room 103AB |
Room 104AB |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Paper Session General Music, Policy, and Whitewashing of Experience
Jacqueline Kelly-McHale
Chair: Juliet Hess
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Workshop It Takes a Village: Combining Educational Policy Initiatives with Musical Goals and Outcomes
Whitney Mayo
Chair: Rachel Grimsby |
Workshop "Rap" Your Head Around This: Engaging the Modern-Day Learner in the Music Classroom
G. Preston Wilson
Chair: Colleen McNickle |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Paper Session An Intrinsic Case Study of Teacher-Evaluator Dialogue in High Stakes Music Teacher Evaluation
Jocelyn Armes
Chair: David Potter
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9:30 – 10:00 |
Paper Session Children who are Immigrants and Educational Policy: What do music educators need to know?
Carla Aguilar
Chair: Erika Knapp
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Panel Agency at the District Level: A practical guide for engaging the stakeholders in your music program
Adam Borst Kayla Cordell Susan Gould
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Paper Session Disrupting American Education through Music Making as Critical Place Making
Jon Schaller
Chair: Rebecca DeWan
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Break (refreshments)
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Paper Session The Effect of Music Genre on On-Task Behaviors of Sixth Grade Band Students
Kaitlin Callihan
Chair: Erika Knapp
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Panel edTPA as a Form of Slow Violence: A Teacher Education Program Self-Study
Cara Bernard Douglas Kaufman Glenn Mitoma Mark Kohan
Chair: David Potter |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Paper Session Policy as Practice: Restructuring Music Teacher Agency Formation
Patrick Schmidt
Chair: Mitch Robinson
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Paper Session Opportunity Gaps in Music Teacher Preparation and Licensure Programs and Policies
Andrea VanDeusen
Chair: Rachel Grimsby
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Paper Session A Brief Overview of Teacher Licensure Practices in the United States in Relation to Music Education and Teacher Performance Assessments
Rebekah Weaver
Chair: Karen Salvador
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch on Your Own |
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1:30 – 2:00 |
Paper Session "Ready for Primetime:" edTPA, Preservice Music Educators, and the Hyperreality of Teaching
Cara Bernard Nicholas McBride
Chair: Colleen McNickle
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Paper Session Musically (Dis)affirming Lenses: Intersections of Belief, Identity, and Practice
Amy Sierzega
Chair: Jessica McKiernan |
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2:00 – 3:00 |
Town Hall Meeting: Legislators and Policymakers: Making a Political Impact
Auditorium
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Paper Session An Onto-Historical Focus on Oppression in Music Education Policy
Brent Talbot
Chair: Juliet Hess
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Panel Discussion Blogging as Policy Work
Peter Greene Mitch Robinson
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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3:30 –4:00 |
Paper Session "I don't think I'll ever be done:" A Narrative Inquiry with a Rural Teacher Adopting Culturally Sustaining Practices
Karen Salvador Claire Thompson
Chair: Whitney Mayo
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Paper Session The Day After: Music Education in the Age of Trauma
Erich Weiger
Chair: Colleen McNickle
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Panel Policy Writing in Music Education: Programs, Practices, and Issues
Arts Education Policy Review Editorial Board Members
Chair: Sandra Snow
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4:00 –4:30 |
Break (refreshments) |
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4:30 – 5:30 |
Featured Panel: MSU Professors Working in Policy
Auditorium
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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6:00 – 8:00 |
Banquet Featuring: MSU College of Music Entertainment Lincoln Room
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8:00 – 9:00 |
Evening Entertainment: “Betsy DeVos: The Musical”
Quinn Strassel and Diane Hill
Chair: Mitch Robinson
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
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8:15 – 9:15
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Featured Panel: Music Teachers on Policy, Agency, and Activism
Auditorium
Chair: Karen Salvador
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Room |
Auditorium |
Room 103AB |
Room 104AB |
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9:15 – 9:45 |
Paper Session
When Activism Silences Musical Agency: Policy Contradictions in Populist Times
William Perrine
Chair: Juliet Hess
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Workshop A New Music Education Policy in Rio de Janeiro: The Orquestra nas Escolas Program
Rodrigo Batalha Moana Martins
Chair: Whitney Mayo |
Work Session Arts Education Policy Review Roundtable Work Sessions
Members of the AEPR Editorial Board
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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9:45 – 10:15 |
Workshop Gender Policies in Music Education
Rebecca DeWan Jessica McKiernan
Chair: Mitch Robinson |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Break (refreshments) |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Paper Session They Really Don't Like Us As Much As We Think They Do: Fourth Graders' Opinions of General Music Class
Jill Hogan
Chair: Sandra Snow
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Paper Session Music Teacher Perceptions of the Every Student Succeeds Act and Music Education Funding
Richard Tilley
Chair: Jessica McKiernan |
Workshop Mapping Oppression in Policies: Remapping for Liberation
Amy Lewis Jesse Rathgeber Martin Urbach Latasha Thomas-Durrell
Chair: Juliet Hess |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Paper Session Quality Music Education Seen Through Neoliberal Eyes: Privatized Education Policy and its Impact on the Music Teacher
George Nicholson
Chair: David Potter
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Connected Papers with Discussant Special Education Policy through the Lens of Universal Design for Learning Rachel Grimsby Erika Knapp
Universal Design and Meaningful Inclusion in Music Education: Overcoming Abjection of Individuals with Disabilities in IDEA Adam Harry
Inclusion/Exclusion in the Music Classroom Sara Jones
Chair: Karen Salvador |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Paper Session How We Compete: A Content Analysis of Competitive Practices in State Concert Band
Emmett O’Leary
Chair: Rebecca DeWan
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Paper Session Diminishing Returns: Labor Changes and its Challenges to Music Education Agency
Patrick Schmidt Jashen Edwards Patrick Feely
Chair: Whitney Mayo
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12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch on Your Own
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1:00 – 1:30 |
Paper Session Teaching Steel Band as an Act of Social Justice and Democracy
Brandon Haskett
Chair: Rebecca DeWan
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Workshop A Policy of Health and Wellness for Music Education Students
Colleen McNickle
Chair: Whitney Mayo |
Facilitated Discussion Hip-Hop Speaks: Actions with Words
Patrick Cooper James Gantt Kenrick Wagner Gonzalo Silva
Chair: Erika Knapp |
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1:30 – 2:00 |
Paper Session Politics, Policy, and Possibilities: Charter Schools and Music Education
David Hedgecoth
Chair: Rachel Grimsby
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2:00 – 2:30 |
Paper Session Teacher Observations from Using an Informal Learning Framework in an Elementary Instrumental Popular Music Ensemble
Cody Kelly
Chair: Rachel Grimsby
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Interactive Session Policy E-Kits: Explaining Policy Topics through Short Videos
Carla Aguilar Lauren Kapalka Richerme Cara Bernard
Chair: Erika Knapp
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Paper Session Critical Policy Analysis: A Participatory Framework for Music Teacher Education
David Potter
Chair: Ryan Shaw
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Paper Session Leadership in Music Technology Education: Practical and Philosophical Implications for Educators and Stakeholders
Daniel Walzer
Chair: Karen Salvador |
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Paper Session Calls for Action in Policy and Practice: Truth and Reconciliation in Music Education
Lori Dolloff Juliet Hess
Chair: Sandra Snow
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Paper Session Promote Music but Foster Segregation?: Difficult Choices in the Age of School Choice
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Chair: Mitch Robinson |
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Paper Session An Examination of Culturally Diverse Music Education in Wyoming
Jennifer Mellizo
Chair: David Potter |
Paper Session Creating Safe(r) Music Schools: Protective Policies for Gender Diverse Musicians
William Sauerland
Chair: Jessica McKiernan
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4:00 – 4:30 |
Break (refreshments)
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4:30 – 5:15 |
Closing Keynote: Ryan Shaw
Wonk or Activist: Conceptualizing a Role in Music Education Policy
Chair: Juliet Hess
Auditorium
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5:15 – 5:30
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Closing Comments
MSU Faculty
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About the 2020 Conference
Embracing Agency and Activism: Policy and the Future of Music Education
February 27-29, 2020 at Michigan State University
Registration:
Please click HERE to register for the 2020 New Directions Conference.
Please register by January 31, 2020.
Travel:
There are several options for getting to Michigan State University. Typically, Detroit Metro Airport offers the least expensive fares, but if you fly into Detroit, you must rent a car or take the Michigan Flyer bus to East Lansing. This is a roughly 90-minute trip by car and longer by bus. The Capital Region International Airport is much closer—15 minutes from campus—but fares tend to be higher. Other airport options include Grand Rapids or Flint. Rail travel to East Lansing is somewhat limited. Check Amtrak for possible routes.
Hotel:
The conference hotel is the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, which is also the location of all conference sessions. Please make your room reservations directly by calling the hotel at 800-875-5090 or online here. Use the room block code 2002NEWDIR. The block of rooms will be released on January 31, 2020.
Banquet and Presenting Needs:
If attending the conference, please fill out this additional form so we can plan for dietary restrictions, A/V needs, and other accommodations.
Call for Papers
The word “policy” can seem dry and technical, conjuring notions of quasi-official and impenetrable prose created by bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. Policy scholarship has also been used to study “problems” in schools without much regard for or mention of the people therein. Especially in the recent era of educational reform, policies are often weapons—used to close “failing” schools, to exclude teachers from the profession, to silence democracy, to privatize and commodify, and to work against aims of social justice and equity.
But policy is more than this. Sociologist Stephen Ball noted that policy is both text and discourse and involves tension between agency and constraint. Viewed this way, policy is in everything related to education. Curriculum—both explicit and hidden—is policy. Mentoring, professional development, annual teacher performance evaluations, and school funding may all be evaluated as policy.
Additionally, the making of policy is a negotiated enterprise. Music educators are policy brokers, acting as street-level bureaucrats in interpreting directives. Parents and community members coalesce around policy positions.
It is in this spirit that we hold a conference to discuss what policy means for music education. The 2020 New Directions conference seeks to broaden and humanize policy for students, teachers, and communities. We invite submissions from across the spectrum of inquiry on pressing questions, including but not limited to:
• How does music education fit into the broader landscape of schools and educational policy?
• What policies and policy-makers are impacting music education?
• How can music educators have agency in the policy development and implementation
processes?
• How can policy support goals around educational equity, justice, and activism?
• What should the future of music education be and how do policies support or hinder this?
Submissions may include, but are not limited to:
• Paper presentations: Individual paper presentations will be organized into
sessions, related by topic area and assigned a discussant. (20 min.)
• Panels: Panels may be pre-constituted and include 3-4 individuals including a
moderator, plus a possible discussant. (40 min.)
• Poster: Posters will display on-going research, service, advocacy, or activist
projects.
• Workshop: A facilitated activity involving 1 or more presenters. (50 min.)
• Facilitated Discussion: Discussion with a set topic and a moderator. (50 min.)
• Musicking: Musicking experiences/facilitations/performances that address the
conference theme through a range of media. Submissions could include audio or
video recordings if appropriate.
Participants are encouraged to propose alternative presentation formats to those
mentioned above.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to:
"newdirectionsmusicconference@gmail.com"
by October 1, 2019. Panel proposals require an abstract describing both the panel and the individual papers. For discussions, describe how the time will be utilized and the topic facilitated. Workshop presenters should address methodology, pedagogy, and desired learning outcomes in their submission. Musicking proposals must connect their work to the conference theme and briefly describe the optimal setting for their work. Conference notifications will be sent out by mid-November 2019.
Papers will be selected through anonymous peer review by the New Directions Editorial Board.
Please observe the following procedures to enable the review process:
1. Attach a short biographical note of 50 words on a separate page.
2. Please include your name, institution, abstract, title of session, list of participants
(if applicable), and e-mail address with your submission.
3. DO NOT include your name on the same page as the abstract.
4. Type “New Directions 2020 Abstract” in the subject line of your email.
All are welcome! Information on accessibility and accommodations is available. Please contact Ryan Shaw at rshaw@msu.edu.
For further information, please contact the music education faculty at Michigan State University.
Mitchell Robinson (mrob@msu.edu)
Sandra Snow (slsnow@msu.edu)
Juliet Hess (jhess@msu.edu)
Karen Salvador (huberkar@msu.edu)
Ryan Shaw (rshaw@msu.edu) – Conference Coordinator
We look forward to seeing you in East Lansing, MI in February 2020!
Conference Keynote Speakers
We are excited to welcome Dr. Jack Schneider as a keynote speaker at the 2020 New Directions in Music Education Conference!
Jack Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at UMass Lowell and leads the “Beyond Test Scores” research project. An award-winning scholar, his work explores the influence of history, culture, and rhetoric in education policy. The author of three books and over a dozen peer-reviewed research articles, Dr. Schneider has explored why particular ideas gain policy traction, how public perception of schools takes shape, why education reform so often fails, and how organizations improve. He writes frequently in outlets like the Atlantic and the Washington Post, and is co-host of the educational policy podcast “Have You Heard.”