Ann Marie Stanley, Assistant Professor of Music Education, is a specialist in the teaching and learning of elementary and secondary general music. She has completed the Ph.D in Music Education from the University of Michigan. Her current research involves investigations of student small-group musical collaborations, arts integration within the elementary school, and the impact of university coursework on teaching practice. Her work has been published three times in the Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, and she is the author of a chapter (“Rose and Giancarlo: Evidence of and for musical collaboration”) in a forthcoming book on sociology and music education published by Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Ms. Stanley has presented on her research at Oberlin Conservatory, the Michigan Music Conference, MENC All-Eastern, the Instrumental Music Teacher Educators’ Symposium, New Directions Conference on Music Education, and the International Symposium on Sociology in Music Education. For two years she has been a featured presenter at the National Creative Mind Conference. In 2006 and 2007 she was an adjunct professor of music education at Adrian (MI) College and Concordia University of Ann Arbor.
Ms. Stanley has a B.M. and M.M. from Wichita State University. She has taught oboe and general music at Fairfield (CT) University and in the pre- college division of The Juilliard School. After relocating to California in 1997, Ms. Stanley received her elementary multiple subject and music teaching credentials from Cal. State-Hayward. She taught K-5 music, an advanced choir, and instrumental lessons in the St. Helena, CA public schools for 8 years, and also worked for The California Arts Project (UC Davis division), as a specialist in music teacher preparation and professional development for classroom and music teachers. She was on the California State Visual and Performing Arts Framework committee, and has conducted professional development workshops or workshop series in eleven school districts.
