Steve Holley

Popular Music Education – Beyond Three Chords and the Truth - In this session, we’ll discuss some of both the why and the how of PME.  We'll trouble some of the notions surrounding PME such as PME is culturally responsive, the conflation/confusion around informal learning practices and PME, and how to incorporate the varied learning experiences of musicians into our teaching practices. We'll also discuss some of these ideas actually look and feel like in the classroom. Sometimes, the truth can hurt a little! 

How Popular Musicians Teach - Employing an auto-ethnographic lens, the paper investigates the various ways the author taught and students learned in a popular music program. Through identifying the similarities and dissimilarities between a learner’s in-school and out-of-school music experiences––as well as problematizing the preconceived role(s) of the learner and teacher in these experiences––the author arrived at the conclusion that a hybrid of formal, non-formal, and informal approaches was, indeed, a viable popular music pedagogy.

Developing Hybrid Practices in Popular Music Education - presentation with Shane Colqhoun

Intersections and Roundabouts; Connecting in-school and out-of-school experiences to your teaching practice - How do our experiences, prior knowledge, biases, assumptions, etc., inform our teaching practices? 

Navigating a New Music Education Landscape: (Online/Hybrid/In-Person) Instructional Highlights - In this session, participants will hear highlights from a panel of three music teachers on successful instructional strategies in classrooms in online, hybrid, or in-person instruction.