It’s Time for a Shift in Music Education
Are you ready to move from theory to action in creating an equitable, inclusive music program? Music as a Vehicle: A Practical Guide to Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching in Today’s Music Classrooms is your guide to making culturally responsive teaching a reality in your music program.
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About the Book
Music educators everywhere believe that music is for everyone.
However, it’s clear that “music for everyone” is an ideal that is out of reach for many of today’s learners as our schools become more diverse in numerous ways.
In order to make “music for everyone” a reality, music education must shift to place equitable, culturally responsive practices at the center.
Music as a Vehicle: A Practical Guide to Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching in Today’s Music Classrooms is a bold and actionable guide for music educators ready to make that shift.
In Music As a Vehicle, Ashley Cuthbertson shares personal stories from her career as a PK-12 music educator and educational consultant to provide the step by step framework that has helped hundreds of music educators create affirming learning environments and design fresh and engaging music curriculum and instruction that meets the diverse and ever-evolving needs of today’s learners.
This book is a must-have for all music educators looking to:
- Gain clarity on how to remove obstacles and barriers to equitable learning in their music programs
- Go beyond the surface, to deeply understanding the cultural frames of reference of their learners in order to create an affirming learning environment where learners feel a sense of belonging
- Learn a process for selecting repertoire that provides pathways for learners to learn more deeply about themselves, others, and the world around them
- Design music curriculum that connects to the real-world, providing relevant learning opportunities that will engage learners
Ashley’s approach represents an answer to the urgent call to make engaging, high quality music education that connects with all learners the norm, and not the exception.
Exclusive Resources
Your purchase of Music As a Vehicle includes exclusive access to the Resource Toolkit valued at over $1,000— the toolkit includes a collection of downloadable resources, templates, and instructional examples designed to help you apply the book’s strategies immediately.
The Resource Toolkit includes over $1,000 worth of supplementary resources, including:
- Removing Equity Barriers in Program Policies, Practices, and Procedures Guided Worksheet (value $49)
- Unpacking Values and Beliefs Worksheet (value $29)
- Cultural Proficiency Scenarios in Music Education Guided Worksheet (value $59)
- Activities to Build Classroom Community List (value $99)
- Breaking Through Barriers to Belonging Guided Worksheet (value $19)
- Creating Classroom Goals and Expectations Protocol (value $99)
- Repertoire Through a Culturally Responsive Lens Starter Database (value $99)
- Find the Story Template (value $19)
- Selecting High Quality Repertoire for Music Programs Checklist (value $19)
- Unpacking Standards Examples Across K-12 Music Disciplines (value $49)
- Authentic Music Assessment Examples Across K-12 Music Disciplines (value $49)
- Unit & Concert Programming Examples Across K-12 Music Disciplines (value $99)
- Universal Design for Learning in Music Crosswalk with Instructional strategies (value $99)
- Daily Instructional Template for Rehearsals and Lessons (value $19)
- Daily music rehearsal and lesson plan examples Across K-12 Music Disciplines (value $99)
- And much more!
About the Author
Ashley Cuthbertson, M.Ed, NBCT (she/her), is a nationally recognized consultant and speaker on culturally responsive instruction and equity in music and arts education.
Ashley serves as the founder and principal consultant of A. Cuthbertson Consulting, a national educational consulting firm committed to shifting the landscape of arts education by helping music and arts educators make culturally responsive and equitable teaching and learning the norm, not the exception.
In this role, she partners with schools, districts, and organizations to ensure their arts educators are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to create equitable program policies, cultivate affirming learning environments, and design culturally responsive curriculum and instruction that is culturally responsive and relevant to the diverse and ever-evolving needs of today’s learners.
Described as an “engaging and charismatic” speaker and consultant, her professional learning programs have been described as “engaging,” “safe,” and that they provide strategies that “will have a positive impact” on students.
Prior to her work as an educational consultant and speaker, Ashley was a dedicated PK-12 general music, choral, and band music educator. Additionally, she was a teacher leader in her school district, and served as an adjunct professor on the faculties of Loyola University Maryland and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Born and raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Ashley enjoys attending concerts and shows, trying new restaurants, and traveling to anywhere there is a beach.
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