NC Music Educator Conference Edition 2022
North Carolina Music Educators Association professional journal Conference edition 2022
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H<br />
igher Education<br />
Jennifer Whitaker, Chair<br />
The Higher Education Executive Council and I are pleased<br />
to share highlights planned for this year’s <strong>NC</strong>MEA<br />
Professional Development <strong>Conference</strong>. As chair of the<br />
committee, I am excited to announce Dr. Mackie Spradley will<br />
be our special guest presenter. Dr. Spradley is the immediate<br />
past president of NAfME, director of enrichment education and<br />
programs for the Texas Education Agency, and CEO of Forest<br />
Educational Group, LLC. She is published in various journals and<br />
books, and has presented sessions throughout the United States<br />
and internationally.<br />
She will present two sessions on issues related to equity in<br />
music education. We look forward to her sharing her knowledge<br />
and expertise on this important topic with us. In addition to Dr.<br />
Spradley’s presentations, Drs. Andrea VanDeusen and Cindy<br />
Wagoner will present <strong>Music</strong> Teacher Professional Development<br />
Cohort: Agents of Social Change (details provided below).<br />
Additionally, we hope you will also attend and/or participate in one<br />
or both Research sponsored sessions: Student Research Lightning<br />
Talks and the Research Poster Session.<br />
Our annual Higher Education Section business meeting will<br />
take place the morning of Monday, November 7. As my and Debbie<br />
O’Connell’s terms expire at the end of this year’s conference, we<br />
will elect a new chairperson-elect (two year term followed by<br />
a two year term as chair) and secretary (two year term) to the<br />
Executive Council. A sub-committee of the Executive Council<br />
is working to identify possible candidates for these positions.<br />
If you are interested in serving in this capacity or would like to<br />
nominate someone else (with their permission), please contact me<br />
at higher_education@ncmea.net. Nominations from the floor will<br />
also be solicited at the meeting.<br />
I appreciate the work of our Higher Education Executive<br />
Committee: Timothy Nowak (research chair), Debbie O’Connell<br />
(secretary), José Rivera (chairperson-elect and teacher education<br />
chair), Fred Spano (member-at-large), and Katy Strand (memberat-large).<br />
They offered excellent advice and recommendations that<br />
will result in a meaningful and energizing conference for all. Their<br />
contributions to our section and <strong>NC</strong>MEA have been outstanding. I<br />
look forward to seeing you at the conference!<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Teacher Professional Development<br />
Cohort: Agents of Social Change<br />
In this presentation, we will share findings from a study in<br />
which we examined the perceived impact of a music teacher<br />
professional development cohort (MTPDC) on participants’<br />
understandings, beliefs, attitudes, and practices toward issues<br />
of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) in music<br />
education and in their classrooms. In-service music teachers<br />
currently serving as cooperating teachers for our institution were<br />
invited to participate. We were also interested in the ways that a<br />
community of practice might impact how the cohort perceives<br />
their roles as mentors to their students and/or their university<br />
interns. Data collection is ongoing. Findings and implications for<br />
music education will be discussed.<br />
Dr. Andrea VanDeusen<br />
Dr. Andrea VanDeusen is assistant<br />
professor of choral music education and<br />
conductor at East Carolina University,<br />
where she teaches music education courses<br />
and conducts the University Chorale.<br />
Prior to joining the faculty at ECU, she<br />
completed her doctoral studies at Michigan<br />
State University, where she studied music<br />
education and choral conducting and taught<br />
and assisted courses in music education. VanDeusen is a charter<br />
member of mirabai, a twenty-eight voice professional level women’s<br />
ensemble under the direction of Dr. Sandra Snow. She has held<br />
teaching positions in public, private, and international schools in<br />
Michigan, New Jersey and Switzerland.<br />
Dr. Cindy Wagoner<br />
Dr. Cindy Wagoner is an associate professor<br />
and department chair of music education<br />
at East Carolina University, specializing<br />
in instrumental music instruction and<br />
pre-service music teacher education. Her<br />
research focus is music teacher identity,<br />
mentoring new teachers, and teacher<br />
pedagogy, with publications appearing<br />
in Teaching <strong>Music</strong> Through Performance<br />
in Jazz, Teaching <strong>Music</strong>, Psychology of <strong>Music</strong>, Research Issues in<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Education, Journal of <strong>Music</strong> Teacher Education, and several<br />
book chapters. Her heart still lies in teaching music through<br />
instrumental performance, and she travels extensively providing<br />
clinics for bands, conducting, and presenting research.<br />
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