Month: October 2018

For the past few days, I've been trying to read a keynote I was anxiously awaiting, mostly because Robin had promised to break the mold of her previous keynotes: I am going to read a keynote address this week. I never do that, but I wanted to write something more nuanced and wrestle and craft … Continue reading A Reflection on Robin DeRosa’s #PaLa2018 Keynote →

Throughout my tenure as a professor, my teaching practice has become continually innovative, iterative, evolving, and messy, although messy in this sense means something more akin to the ideas underlying jazz music. “Jazz teaching” is less messy than “highly improvisory, depending for its appeal more on the skill, intuition, and experience of individual performers than … Continue reading Jazz Teaching and Open Pedagogy →