•    Music Learning and Youth Intervention Socio-Emotional Learning, Positive Youth Development, and Music for Detained Youth   In the past two decades, the notion of music learning as [...]

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    Popular Music Lyrics and the Music Classroom When prompted, my students jump at the opportunity to hear their favorite song in class. Students will request songs to be played in the background during [...]

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    The Adaptive Helpless-Oriented Student? Motivation and the General Music Classroom   When we think of music education and motivation, we mostly think of the performance centered music [...]

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    Engagement, Representation, and Action and Expression: Planning Inside Out         On the topic of teaching students with disabilities or students labeled as diverse learners, I often think [...]

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    Musical Agency and the Zone of Proximal Development   For students, musical agency means having a stake in the learning process; students have the capacity to believe they are in control of [...]

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