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Kodaly Educators of Southern New England presents a webinar:
Decolonizing and Antiracist Approaches in the Music Classroom with Lorelei Batislaong, Deputy Director of Decolonizing the Music Room – Helping music educators develop critical practices through research, training, and discourse to build a more equitable future.
Decolonizing the Music Room is a nonprofit organization using research, training, and discourse to help music educators develop critical practices and center BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) voices, knowledge, and experiences in order to challenge the historical dominance of white Western European and American music, narratives, and practices.We at DTMR aim to disrupt the minimization and erasure of non-dominant cultures and identities in the field of music education to build a more equitable future through our work.
Founder, Executive Director, Co-Editor
Brandi taught elementary music for ten years in Fort Worth, Texas where she served as a mentor teacher, wrote lower elementary music curriculum, and was awarded the 2018 Bayard Friedman Chair for Teaching Excellence in Performance Arts. Brandi holds a BM and MM in Jazz Studies from Howard University and is pursuing her PhD in Music Education at the University of North Texas. She has completed Orff Schulwerk certification, Kodály level I, and Music Learning Theory levels I & II. An educational equity advocate, she has been a member of the Fort Worth ISD racial equity committee since 2018 and in 2019 completed a Campus Voices Fellowship with Leadership ISD, focusing on educational equity. Brandi is an active musician and performs various styles, most often jazz and early American Roots music. She is an active presenter on topics ranging from decolonizing and anti racist philosophies in music education to the Black history of early American music, and incorporating these into classroom activities.
Deputy Director, Lead Editor
Lorelei is a 14-year veteran of the elementary music classroom. She received a BM in Music with teacher certification from Southwest Texas State University and a MM in Instrumental Conducting from Texas State University. She served on the American Orff Schulwerk Association National Board of Trustees as Region III Representative and is a former chair of the AOSA Diversity and Inclusion committee. Lorelei is the State Director of the Texas affiliate of the National Association for Music Education. Along with presenting local, state and national clinics, Lorelei is completing a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include: Teacher noticing and decision-making, inclusivity in the music classroom and the teaching profession, and generally wondering why everything is the way it is and how it could be better.
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Decolonizing and Anti-racist Approaches in the Music Classroom
September 26, 2020 - October 24, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Venue: Zoom with KESNE
Description:
The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you the day before the event.