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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Using Podcasts in Music Education
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Musicast Launch! – Episode 0
Founder, CEO, public school music teacher, and mom extraordinaire Sarah Gulish joins us to talk about the past, present, and future of F-flat books , what it's like to run a business, and the integration of Musicast to the company! Sarah Gulish holds a Ph.D in music education from Temple University. For over a decade, Sarah has taught secondary level music at Lower Moreland High School located in the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. She also serves as Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Buffalo State University and Temple University. Her teaching centers on creativity and improvisation in courses focused on new music learners [...]
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On Writing Stuff and Getting Paid
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Dear, Mr. Stakeholder,
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