Aimee Pearsall-Kramer
Aimee D. Pearsall-Kramer (Ph.D.) is a passionate advocate for culturally responsive, student-centered, and equitable teaching practices. Her research interests center on informal music-making in general music and ensemble settings, adolescent songwriting, and social and emotional learning in music classrooms. She has published on these topics in the Engaging Musical Practices book series and Q & A for MLT: Choral Music Perspectives on Music Learning Theory. She also presents her research regularly at regional, national, and international music education conferences.
Dr. Pearsall-Kramer is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Delaware, where she serves as the program coordinator of music education. There, she teaches a collegiate choral ensemble, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in music education pedagogy, elementary and middle school general music, music education research, and musicianship for teaching. Before teaching at the collegiate level, Dr. Pearsall-Kramer taught elementary and middle school general music, choral, and orchestral settings. She currently serves as the immediate past president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning.
An active general music and choral music educator and clinician, Dr. Pearsall-Kramer regularly leads professional development workshops for PK-12 music teachers related to informal teaching and learning, social and emotional learning, musical creativity, and sequential music learning through the lens of Music Learning Theory. She also enjoys leading choral workshops, conducting choral festivals, and serving as an elementary, middle school, and high school choral adjudicator.
Dr. Pearsall-Kramer is grateful for her student collaborators and preservice music teachers who inspire her each day to keep learning and growing as a teacher-musician.
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Musicast Episode 6: A Nod to Marching Bands, Part 2 with Aaron Dugger- Balancing Process and Product
High school band director Aaron Dugger returns to the podcast to discuss process and product in secondary marching bands. in the Texas UIL system, it can feel like your teaching to a test but Aaron offers productive insight as to how to take the system and make it work for students and programs of all kinds. [...]
The Essential Work of the Arts: A Productive Response for Teachers
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Musicast Episode 5: Young Band Directors Panel- Finding and Remembering Your “Why”
\A panel of high school band directors who have been teaching for 6 years or less come together to discuss the good, the bad, and the inspirational parts of being a band director. The discussion includes topics about leadership, COVID era teaching, and finding and remembering why they became music teachers. This episode will feed your soul! [...]
The Essential Work of the Arts
As a young educator, I was always tasked with the [...]
Musicast Episode 4: Kirsten C. Kunkle – Passionate Pioneering
Soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle has been hailed as an outstanding singing actress with a voice that has been described as beautiful, ethereal, powerful, fiery, and bewitching. he attended Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg for her undergraduate studies, majoring in voice performance with minors in Italian and German. Her graduate degrees are in voice performance from the University of Michigan. A voting member of the Muscogee Nation, Dr. Kunkle commissioned and premiered sixteen original compositions, including one of her own, based upon the poetry of her ancestor and highly-acclaimed poet of the Native American Muscogee Nation, Alex Posey. [...]
Research to Practice: Using Data for More than Just Grades
I used to think that research was complicated and couldn’t help me in my classroom. I used to see the Music Educators Journal arrive in my mailbox, flip through, sigh, think to myself – “If I only had time….,” and then add the issue to a growing pile on my dining room table. [...]