Janet Welby

Education

·  Candidate for PhD in Education: Leadership in Schooling, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

·  Global Studies PhD Courses:  University of Massachusetts, Lowell

·  Master of Music Education: University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts

      Thesis: When Resources are Scarce, Can an Elementary Music Teacher Create a   High Quality Music Program Using Existing Methods Found in Multicultural

       Music? 

·  Bachelors Degree in Applied Music: New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts

Employment

·    Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, 2008 – present

·    Adjunct Professor, Boston Conservatory Graduate Elementary Music Methods Course, 2013 – Present

·     K-5 Music Specialist, Arlington Public Schools, Arlington, Massachusetts

·     Choral director, composition, theory, and piano teacher, pianist, composer

Publications, Conference and Public Presentations, Professional Activity

·      Author of the “Global Music” chapter in Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music (edited by Suzanne L. Burton)

·      Presenter at Massachusetts Music Educators Association Conference in Boston: Music IS Literacy: Making Connections Between K-5 Music Learning and the Massachusetts Frameworks for Literacy

·      Workshop developer and teacher for APS classroom teachers for integrating global music into the general classroom

·      Clinician at the Massachusetts General Music Festival

·      Featured in Arlington Cable program (ACMI) Arlington Schools Arts Beat

·      Curriculum designer for general music K-5

·     Participant in Global Learning Project, the DHE funded UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College collaborative grant project in faculty’s use of criteria from the Global Learning and Intercultural Knowledge and Competence

·    Participant in Massachusetts Arts Council grant, “Bringing Cambodian Music into the Lowell Public Schools”

Awards and Membership

·      Recipient of the Society for General Music in Massachusetts (SGMM) Award for Excellence in General Music, 2013

·      Member of staff at First Parish Bedford honored as part of a national “Breakthrough Congregation” (Fall, 2012), for growth of programs

·      Recipient of Arlington Education Enrichment Fund Grant: (2007) “The Georgia Sea Islands Come to Arlington.”

·      Member of National Association for Music Education (NAfME)