Learning and teaching are at the heart of what I do - I am lucky enough to spend my days researching my favorite topic: how students learn and how teachers teach, mainly in the arts disciplines.

My journey in thinking about how people best learn began on my childhood bedroom floor, with a bucket of Barbie dolls that got dressed and lined up for "school," where I would teach them whatever I deemed important for the day's lesson.

Since then, my teaching practices have been influenced by my graduate training in music education, my years teaching in the PreK-8 classroom, my research findings, and an eye for discerning quality teaching practices (cultivated by over 30 years of critically analyzing my own teachers!)