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Teaching

General-education courses and the methods sequence, five cross-cutting focus areas, the Ensemble Directors Toolkit, and the data I keep on whether any of it is working.

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Courses

What I teach.

Two streams of college teaching: general-education courses where music meets the whole campus, and the methods sequence for future music educators.

General Education

Courses for non-majors — the front-porch work of the music program.

Course resource

Music Map

A 23-supergenre atlas of popular music, built collaboratively by students across semesters of MUSA 266 and MUSA 220. Inspired by musicmap.info.

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Music Education Methods

The three-course sequence — foundational pedagogy, secondary methods, then the leap into student teaching.

Focus areas

Five threads.

Cross-cutting ideas that show up across every methods course — and across my own work in classrooms and ensembles.

Improvisation

Five-level complexity hierarchy and a menu of teaching strategies — from 'I play, you play' to free improvisation in ensembles.

Process Teaching

Teaching by guided discovery, not transmission. Sequenced experiences that let students figure out what they know.

Counting Systems

Syllable systems, beat function, and how the way we count shapes what musicians can hear and feel.

Country Dancing

Long-set, longways, and circle dances as a doorway into ensemble musicianship and joyful community.

Ensembles

Choirs, bands, and orchestras as classrooms — what good rehearsal looks like, how to build it, and what conductors model beyond the notes.

Ensemble Directors Toolkit

What I've built.

Interactive tools for the rehearsal hall, score-study desk, and curriculum-design page — each one built for a real problem I was tired of solving by spreadsheet.

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Moneyband

Repertoire

Moneyball for the wind ensemble

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Pattern Lab screenshot

Pattern Lab

Conducting

See the shape of your conducting

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InstruMentor screenshot

InstruMentor

Pedagogy

An instrument-by-instrument pedagogy companion

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Curriculum-O-Matic 3000 screenshot

Curriculum-O-Matic 3000

Curriculum

Curriculum planning, with a sense of humor

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Resources & record

What I share, what I've taught.

Open educational resources I've authored or curated, plus the academic courses on the record.

Open Educational Resources

Folk-song collections, conducting masterclasses, movement cards I've authored, presentation decks — work I share freely under Creative Commons or trust enough to recommend.

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Courses Taught

Academic course record — current rotation, previous offerings, and applied teaching.

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Teaching efficacy

Is any of this working?

The data I keep on whether the teaching is doing its job — recruitment, retention, student outcomes, program growth.

Ensemble Recruitment & Retention

Twelve years of roster, retention, and cohort-persistence data — tracking how well the ensemble program is keeping the students it recruits, and where the leaks are.

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More efficacy lines, coming

Student outcomes, program growth, alumni teaching placements — each on its own page as the data matures.

In progress