Colley Consulting - Presentations

p r e s e n t a t i o n s

Reports from work listed on this page can be requested from Dr. Colley via the contact page on this website.

in person

2006 Significant Beginnings: Connections between Music and Arts Education Partnerships and Local K-12 Arts Education Policy, Research Session, Music Educators' National Conference National Biennial Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April

2006 Policy and Practice after 10 Years of National Standards: Music Curricula in Massachusetts Communities; Music Teacher Education Nationwide, Massachusetts Music Educators Conference, Boston, MA, March.

2005 Music Education and the National Arts Standards: 10 Years Later…Blessing or Curse? Sociology of Music Education IV Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October.

2005 Applied Research in Music Education – Case Studies from the Classroom and the Community, Massachusetts Music Educators Conference, Boston, March.

2005 Structures for Wedding Disciplines: A Successful Professional Development Model for Integrating Art Forms into Mainstream Curricula; the Arts Can Teach Program in the Lynn Public Schools 1998-2004, Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, January.

2005 The Cultural Instituion's Role in Local K-12 Arts Education Policy: A Case Study of Boston's Wang Center Arts Can Teach Initiative in the Lynn Public Schools 1998-2004, Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, January.

2004 Arts Education Panel, Chair. 30th Annual Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Conference, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, October.

1998 Family Place: An Evaluation.Presented to the Education Advisory Comittee of the Board of Trustees, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

1993 Managing Change in Schools and Arts Organizations. Invited Panelist, 19th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, Northeastern University, September, 1993

1990 Testimony to the National Council on the Arts to support re-authorization of the NEA's Fellows Program. One of two fellows selected from over 300 to appear personally before the National Council.

1989 The Occupation of the Elementary Arts Specialist: An Exploratory Analysis of Societal Values, School Organization, and Collegial Relations. Presented at the Music Educators National Conference Eastern Division Convention, Boston, March.

1988 Art Teacher - the Person and the Profession. Lecture presented to the Rhode Island School of Design art education faculty and students. Presented at the Music Educators National Conference Convention, Anaheim, CA, April, 1986.

1987 Roles for Educators in Cultural Organizations. Panelist. Harvard Graduate School of Education Career Planning and Placement, Spring.

1986 Feedback and Documentation as Applicable to Artists-In-Schools Evaluations. Presented at the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts' Artist-In-Schools Orientation Conference, September.

1985 Founding Member, Council for the Arts and Education. Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

in print

1999 Minds Alive: Teachers as Scholars. Council for Basic Education, Washington DC. Case Studies of Selected Winners of CBE's Teacher Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities, Math and Science.

1993 So, How Old Is Your String Quartet? Chamber Music (Summer). Chamber Music America, Inc. (Interviews with the Borromeo and Portland String Quartets and Louis and Adrienne Krasner)

1993 October Journal Entries. Berklee Today, (Spring). Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.

1992 The Artist in Residence Program: An Evaluative Report. New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Concord, NH

1991 Finding Common Ground: Art Schools and Ed Schools. Design for Arts In Education. Nov./Dec., pp. 35-48. Winner 1991 Reston Prize.

1990 Arts in Education Handbook. Editor/Author. National Endowment for the Arts. Official NEA resource for state arts agency administrators.

1988 A Comparison of Syllabic Methods for Improving Rhythm Literacy. Journal of Research in Music Eduaction, 35, (4), Winter, Presented at the Music Educators National Conference Convention, Anaheim, CA, April, 1986.

1987 Teaching Children to Read Rhythmic Notation: Matching the Method to the Mind. Update:The Applications of Research to Music Eduation, (3), Summer, 3-7.

1987 Children's Rhythmic Development from Age 5 to 7: Performance, Notation, and Reading of Rhythmic Patterns. (With Lyle Davidson) in Music and Child Development. Peery, Peery, and Draper (eds.),Springer-Verlag, pp. 107-137.