Books and resources that have influenced my teaching

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General Music

• General Music: Dimensions of Practice: Edited by Carlos R. Abril and Brent M. Gaul
• Teaching for musical understanding: Jackie Wiggins- Philosophy and General Music
• Minds on Music: Composition for creative and critical thinking by Michele Kaschaub and Janice Smith
• Middle School General Music: The best part of your day by Elizabeth Ann McAnally
• Growing Musicians: Teaching music in middle school and beyond by Bridget Sweet.
• The Child as Musician: A handbook of musical development: edited by Gary McPherson
• The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Song and Games by Kathryn Marsh.

World Music Pedagogy

• Lessons from the world by Patricia Sheehan Campbell
• Facing Music Education: Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective: Huib Schippers
• Worlds of Music, edited by Jeff Todd Titon
• Roots and Branches by Campbell, McCullough-Brabson & Cook Tucker

• Teaching Music Globally: Experiencing music expressing culture: Patricia Sheehan Campbell
• Smithsonian folkways
• West African Drum & Dance:  A Yankadi-Macrouc Celebration by Kalani and Ryan M. Camara. A curriculum called the World Rhythm Arts Project (WRAP). Cultural information and instructional techniques.
• World Music Press
• Virtual Javanese Gamelan
• Ethnomusicology: A very short introduction by Timothy Rice

Special Needs

• Teaching music to students with special needs: A practical guide by Alice Hammel
• Teaching music to students with special needs: A label-free approach by Alice Hammel
• Including Everyone: Creating music classrooms where all children learn by Judith A. Jellison
• Exceptional Music Pedagogy: For children with exceptionalities: edited by Deborah Vanderlinde Blair and Kimberly A McCord
• Accessing Music: Enhancing student learning in the General Music Classroom using UDL by Kimberly A. McCord, Amy Gruben and Jessie Rathgeber

Popular Music Pedagogy

How Popular Musicians Learn: Lucy Green

Music, Lyrics, and Life: A field guide for the advancing songwriter by Mike Errio

Music informal learning and the School: A new classroom pedagogy by Lucy Green

Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Edited by Bryan Powell and Gareth Smith

Coaching a popular music ensemble: Steve Holly

Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the field: Bryan Powell and Gareth Smith

Remixing the Classroom: by Randall Everett Allsup

Music Teacher as Music Producer: How to turn your classroom into a Center for Musical Creativities by Clint Randles

A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit: Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice by Gareth Dylan Smith

Teaching

• The Together Teacher: Plan ahead, get organized, and save time – Maia Heyck-Merlin -Organization 
• Teach Like a Champion – Doug Lemov -Teaching techniques 
• Teaching With Love & Logic – Jim Fay & David Funk- Classroom Management 
• “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” – Beverly Daniel Tatum 
• The courage to teach by Parker Palmer
• Hacking School Discipline: 9 ways to create a culture of Empathy & responsibility using restorative justice

Philosophy

• Art as Experience by John Dewey

• Experience and Education by John Dewey

• How musical is man. By John Blacking

Music Technology/Technology

• Electronic Music School: Kuhn and Hein
• Integrating STEM in Music: Longo and Gates
• The Technology Cookbook: Adam Patrick Bell
• Scratch Music Projects: Andrew Brown and Alex Ruthmann
• Music Learning Today: William Bauer
• The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education edited by S. Alex Ruthmann and Roger Mantie
• Teaching Music through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology by Barbara Freedman