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Becoming Musical
Frank Abrahams and Ryan John
Price: $39.95

Ryan's most recent book with Frank Abrahams, Becoming Musical, is now available! A practical companion to Planning Instruction in Music,
their first book, Becoming Musical is written for music education students and practicing teachers seeking to unlock deeper levels of musicality with students. The goal of Becoming Musical is to ensure that students develop and discover their own musicality as they engage with music inside and outside of school in ways informed by musical understanding, musical agency, and learning styles.

In addition, twenty-seven experienced music educators share their approaches to supporting students along the journey of becoming musical people. Essays focus on developing musicality through pedagogical methods such as Dalcroze, Gordon, Kodály, Orff, and Suzuki as well as the use of social media, music theory, movement, and technology in band, choir, orchestra, and working with young musicians.
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Contributors include Jennifer Bailey, Daniel J. Beal, Brian Bersh, Jay Broeker, Suzanne L. Burton, Lucas Ciavatta, Ellary Draper, David J. Elliott, Lucy Green, Molly Patrician, Haines, Jason Iannuzzi, Nathan B. Kruse, Ming Luke, Katie Wolf Martinenza, Sean McCarther, Anthony Molinaro, Mark Moliterno, Hannah Picasso, David Reimschussel, Susanna Saw, Alex Schumacker, Marissa Silverman, Gareth Dylan Smith, Janice Smith, Alden H. Snell II, Maria Varvarigou, and Daniel Wells.


Planning Instruction in Music
by Frank Abrahams and Ryan John
Price: $28.95

Ryan co-authored a new handbook for music educators with Frank Abrahams entitled Planning Instruction in Music: Writing Objectives, Assessments, and Lesson Plans to Engage Artistic Processes. As a practical tool for in-service and pre-service music educators, this book is "designed to help music educators develop effective objectives, lesson plans, and assessments for their students, forming the backbone of successful classroom, instrumental, and choral instruction."

Part I of the book presents a framework to help teachers meet the demands of contemporary education while maintaining the joy of making music in their classes. Part II features 100 sample objectives that teachers may adapt for their own needs in writing state-mandated growth objectives. Part III includes lesson plan templates and sample lesson plans from 19 experienced music teachers that implement the ideas discussed throughout the text.
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Canvas LMS Course Design

by Ryan John

Price: $40.49

Canvas LMS Course Design is available from:
Amazon
Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing has released Canvas LMS Course Design by Ryan John. As a users guide to the popular Canvas Learning Management System, the book includes how-to instructions for designing, building, and teaching courses using Canvas. In addition, the book explores the ways in which Canvas, distance learning, and technology connect to popular frameworks of contemporary education including the P21 Framework for 21st Century Learning and Understanding by Design.



List of Publications and Scholarly Work

Books:
  • Canvas LMS Course Design (2nd Edition)
    Packt Publications
    In-press, expected Spring 2021


  • Planning Instruction in Music: Online Supplement
    GIA Publications
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams
    September 2020


  • ​Becoming Musical
    GIA Publications
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams

    December 2017

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  • Planning Instruction in Music
    GIA Publications
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams
    January 2015


  • Canvas LMS Course Design
    Packt Publications
    August 2014

Articles, Chapters, and Scholarly Documents:
  • "A Content Analysis of Student Growth Objectives Created by New Jersey Music Teachers"
    Chapter in Connecting Practice, Measurement, and Evaluation: Selected Papers from the 5th
     International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education
    GIA Publications
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams
    November 2017


  • "Part of it All: The High School Musical as a Community of Practice"
    Peer-reviewed article published in Visions of Research in Music Education, Volume 24

    Available at http://www.rider.edu/~vrme

  • "The Impact of Participation in a Musical Theater Production on the Personal Development of High School Students: A Case Study Investigating Communities of Practice and Possible Selves"
    Master's thesis
    Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ
    May 2013

Conference and Professional Presentations:
  • Curricular Considerations: Recording Technology in the Classroom
    Presented for the Ambitious Music Summer Music Technology Seminars
    Online: August 2020


  • Race & Inclusion Professional Development Workshops
    Book Study: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
    Co-presenters, Lakiya Burrell, Ryan Barker, Andrea Yost
    7 workshops presented for the faculty and staff of Léman Manhattan Preparatory School
    New York, NY: August 2017 through August 2018

  • "Putting it Together: Data, Assessment, and Feedback in the Arts"
    Co-presenter, Hannah Picasso
    Presented at the Meritas Teacher's College Data Forum
    New York, NY: April 2015


  • "A Content Analysis of Student Growth Objectives Created by New Jersey Music Teachers"
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams
    Presented at the 5th International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education: Connecting Practice, Measurement, and Evaluation
    Williamsburg, VA: February 2015


  • "A Content Analysis of Student Growth Objectives Designed by Music Teachers to Measure and Assess Student Achievement in School Music Classes"
    Co-author, Frank Abrahams
    Presented at the IOE-BNU Conference, Learning in a Changing World
    London, UK: 
    November 2014
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