About the Authors

Dr. Ann C. Clements



Ann C. Clements is an associate professor and the graduate program chair for Music Education.



An active researcher, musician, and pedagogue, Clements has given over 150 presentations throughout the United States and in Australia, Brazil, the Baltics, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. She is published in multiple national and international journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, Mountain Lake Reader, International Society for Music Education, General Music Today, and Journal of Research for the New Zealand Performing Arts.



Clements is the author, co-author and editor of several books in the field of music education, including The Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music, 1st Edition (Routledge Press), Alternative Approaches to Music Education: Case Studies from the Field (editor, Rowan and Littlefield), Teaching General Music (chapter author, Oxford University Press), Multicultural Perspective in Music Education (chapter author and editor, Rowan and Littlefield), Making Music Series (contributing author, Silver Burdett), and The Choral Cookbook (chapter author, Hal Leonard).



Her primary research areas include music participation, game theory as applied to education, learning in blended, virtual and augmented realities, and ethnomusicology, of which she is a recognized scholar in Maori music of New Zealand. She has served in leadership and editorial roles in national and international music education and ethnomusicology organizations.



Ann Clements is mother to a precocious and creative son named Charles, is an award-winning gardener, and is in the process of recording her first alternative country music album.



Dr. Sarah Watts



Sarah Watts joined the School of Music faculty in 2015 as an assistant professor. She is a specialist in early childhood and elementary music education, with a particular interest in Orff Schulwerk pedagogy. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Penn State, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where she studied with Patricia Shehan Campbell. 



Watts taught for several years in early childhood and elementary general music settings, and she has held collegiate appointments at Bucknell University, Cleveland State University, and Kent State University. Her scholarly interests include musical oral history, children’s musical play, and the transgenerational transmission of children’s musical play repertoires. Teaching interests include elementary music methods and materials for pre-service music educators, foundations of music education, and music for classroom teachers. She is additionally interested in world music and is particularly involved with musics of the Pacific Islands region, specifically the music and movement traditions of Hawai’i.



An active clinician and presenter, her publications can be found in the Journal of Research in Music Education, The Orff Echo, General Music Today, Music Education Research, International Journal of Play, and Philosophy of Music Education Review. 

Dr. Douglas C. McCall

Dr. Douglas C. McCall is currently a doctoral student at The Pennsylvania State University where he is studying music education. Prior to arriving at Penn State he was a public school choral teacher in the Auburn Enlarged City Schools in Auburn, NY (Syracuse area). He taught for 10 years as a middle school choral/general music but spent the last 10 years as a high school choral teacher. 

Dr. McCall has a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam, NY), a Masters in Music Education from Ithaca College, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration from SUNY Oswego (NY). He has also completed doctoral coursework at Syracuse University and Boston University.

Dr. McCall has been active as a researcher for over 10 years. While teaching in the Auburn CSD he completed several action research projects. He was also awarded 2 Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES Action Research grants. Most recently he was awarded a NYSSMA Research grant to study a year-long teaching internship with high School choral students. He has also been published in the NYSSMA practitioner journal, School Music News. Dr. McCall has presented at conferences in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.