On October 19, 2024, Deanna (Kraft) Thaler was honored with Cherry Creek School District’s Teacher Belt Award. As a choral music director at Falcon Creek Middle School, Thaler received the award for building relationships and making education fun.
Music alumna, Xareny Polanco, named 2025 CMEA Outstanding Young Educator
Leah Dunphey, a Music Education major (‘FA24 anticipated graduation) from Monument, Colorado, was named to the Colorado Department of Higher Education’s 2024 Future Educator Honor Roll. According to the department’s website, the sixth annual Future Educator Honor Roll celebrated 66 outstanding teacher candidates from Colorado’s educator preparation programs, including 25 students from the state’s Teacher […]
Recent graduate, Paul Beyer, reflects on his first year teaching music by Jessica Warner Alumni | Music Education | School of Music, Theatre, and Dance | Alumni | School of Music Theatre and Dance We recently connected with Paul Beyer, who graduated from CSU with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education in 2023. Paul […]
Phuong Nguyen has built a classroom culture around high standards and making music fun by Jessica Warner Alumni | Music Education | School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Dai-Phuong Nguyen (B.M.E. ’01, M.M.E. ’08) is a perfectionist as a performer of multiple instruments and genres and a music educator. He has created a classroom environment […]
Hollie Ryckman embraces multiple cultures and student-led approaches in her Denver classroom by Jessica Warner Alumni | Music Education | School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Many CSU music education graduates expand upon normalized approaches to music pedagogy to accommodate their students’ needs and interests. Denver music teacher Hollie Ryckman is part of this transformative […]
Jana Webster-Wheeler’s experiences are a catalyst to teaching music and more by Jessica Warner Alumni | Music Education | School of Music, Theatre, and Dance As a woman with a rich history who has turned her trauma into a wellspring of wisdom, Jana Webster-Wheeler, B.M.E. ’00, has used her difficult experiences to teach so much […]
In July 2024, Associate Professor of Music Erik Johnson will co-presented a paper at the 36th annual International Society of Music Education world conference in Helsinki, Finland. The presentation titled “Music Teacher Identity Over Time: The Impact of Musical Experiences and Teacher Philosophy” is one of only eight papers accepted for the empirical research category […]
Music Education Professor Bonnie Jacobi had an article featured in the latest issue of the American Eurhythmics Society newsletter.
Music Education Professor Bonnie Jacobi had an article featured in the latest issue of the American Eurhythmics Society newsletter.
