Category: Orchestrating Success Newsletter — March 26, 2015

Introducing the 2015 All-National Honor Ensembles Conductors

This fall, 670 students from across the United States will rehearse and perform in the 2015 All-National Honor Ensembles. The program will be held in coordination with the 2015 NAfME…

Teachers Spoke, NAfME Listened, Congress Got the Message

Once deemed a mere elective, an “extra” in the school day schedule for the privileged few, music education classes (band, orchestra, chorus, general music, among other related classes) quietly staked…

Give A Note Makes a Lasting Impact on Five Selected Schools

The 2015 Music In Our Schools Tour began with a performance at Festival Disney as part of Disney Performing Arts by country artist RaeLynn, who wrote the MIOS tour…

Perseverance Pays Off: The 2013-14 Tri-M High School Chapter of the Year

From sharing their music at a senior citizen tea, to volunteering at a Zac Brown Band concert, the student-run Tri-M® chapter at Prospect Mountain High School in Alton, New…

How To Create Lesson Plans for Non-Music Substitutes

Lesson Plans for Non-Music Substitutes By NAfME Member Jennifer Hibbard Creating sub plans is the sort of task that should be defined in an encyclopedia as “unavoidable misery”. Picture…

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Christopher M. Johnson, Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy, is currently the Chair of the Music Education and Music Therapy Department and Director of the Music Research Institute at the University of Kansas. Johnson earned his Ph.D. from the Florida State University.

Since his arrival at The University of Kansas, Johnson has taught courses in Instrumental Conducting, Teaching Instrumental Music, Managing Behaviors in the Music Environment, Psychology and Acoustics of Music, and Research Methods in Music Education and Music Therapy. Johnson served two terms as the editor of the International Journal of Music Education: Research, the research publication of the International Society for Music Education. He is currently serving his second term on the National Association for Music Educations Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education, and one earlier term as the Chair for the MENC Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education. Johnson also served as the Chair for the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education.

Johnson’s research interests include applied research in music education, and basic research in all aspects of the psychology of music. He has published articles in many journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, the International Journal of Music Education, the Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Band Research, Contributions to Music Education, and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, among others. Johnson has also been an active member and contributor to the Research Seminar of the International Society for Music Education and World Alliance for Arts Education.

Johnson received a university teaching award – the Ned N. Fleming Award for Excellence in Teaching and received the recognition for Graduate Teaching Achievement from the Center for Teaching Excellence. Johnson was also awarded a lecturing & research award as a J. William Fulbright Scholar and recently received the Ella Scoble Opperman Citation for Distinguished Achievement from the Florida State University College of Music.

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