Lorelei Batisla-ong

Lorelei Batisla-ong (BM, Southwest Texas State University; MM Instrumental Conducting, Texas State University; Ph.D. Music and Human Learning, The University of Texas at Austin) is Assistant Professor of General Music Education at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lorelei taught elementary music in San Antonio and Austin public schools for 14 years, in addition to teaching Music Education courses at UT Austin, University of the Incarnate Word, and Anderson University for 5 years. Prior to teaching at UWM, Lorelei worked with Music Education students at Baldwin Wallace University outside of Cleveland, Ohio.

Lorelei has served on the American Orff-Schulwerk Association Board of Trustees, was the State Director of the National Association for Music Education – Texas and currently serves as an officer for the Music Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is Lead Editor of Decolonizing the Music Room and co-author of Elemental ʻUkulele: Pathways and Possibilities.

Lorelei’s teaching and learning interests include ʻukulele pedagogy, teacher noticing and cognition, teaching skills development, equity in the classroom and teaching profession, and generally wondering why everything is the way it is and how it can be better. She is perpetually considering getting a dog.