University of Houston - Music Education

MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to MSM alumnus John Morrison, Director of Fine Arts in Cypress Fairbanks ISD, on this fantastic and well-deserved award! Bravo!!

Congratulations to the Spring 2025 Music Education graduates! We know you have a bright future ahead!

Congratulations to Garrett, Emma, Aidan, Bruce, and Valeria!!

Introducing the Spring 2025 Collegiate Music Educator Award Recipients! 🏆 These remarkable graduates are paving the way for the future of music education across Texas.🌟Congratulations to each awardee—your journey is just beginning, and we can’t wait to see the incredible impact you’ll make. #TMEA #MusicEducationExcellence #FutureMusicEducators #TexasPride #MusicTeachers #MusicEducation

Our hearts are with the teachers, students, and families of Walt Disney Elementary - Alvin ISD. If you are able, please consider supporting their recovery.

*We are grateful for the generosity that helped our Walt Disney family recover. As the Walt Disney Recovery Fund closes, we have updated the link below to support the entire Alvin ISD community and continue the mission of the Alvin ISD Education Foundation.

Walt Disney Elementary - Alvin ISD in Alvin Independent School District has suffered catastrophic damage after yesterday’s tornado.

In the midst of this recovery, we are asking for your support. Many of our educators have lost individual teaching materials they’ve collected over the years to inspire and support their students.

If you’d like to assist our educators in this effort, please donate here: https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/8Xhgig

PHYSICAL DONATION NEEDS: coming soon

Congratulations to all the recipients of this award, and MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to current DMA student Kuan Mitchell for this recognition of his amazing work. Incredibly well-deserved!

GO COOGS!!

Congratulations to this year’s William P. Foster Community Development Award Winners! These incredible music educators will be celebrated at the Midwest Clinic Diversity Reception on Thursday, December 19, open to all conference attendees. Come celebrate Jeff Chang, Tom Cox, Kuan Mitchell, Dr. Oscar Petty Jr., Salvador Rodriguez, and Cedric Young.

Our final recognition of the week is UH MUED students and alumni who all began new positions this semester as UNIVERSITY FACULTY!!

Dr. Christopher Song (BM '15) - Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
Prof. Kedrick Redding (Doctoral Student) - Bethune Cookman Univ.
Prof. Mark Martin (Doctoral Student) - Texas Southern Univ.

Please congratulate these fantastic Cougars on their amazing accomplishments!

GO COOGS!!!!

We're going to close out this week by celebrating our 2023-2024 graduates and their FIRST MUSIC TEACHING JOBS!!

Please like, share, tag, and (most importantly) CONGRATULATE these amazing young teachers!!

GO COOGS!!!!

Moores School of Music
Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

We will celebrate A LOT of Coogs on this page in the coming days and weeks, but we wanted to start the week by sharing a bit about some of our MUED faculty! Happy Musical Monday!!

Alumni and Friends, please help welcome our new faculty in Choral Music Education, Dr. Loneka Wilkinson Battiste!

Loneka Wilkinson Battiste is Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Houston. She draws on 23 years of experience teaching children in school and community settings to teach undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2019, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil where she studied coco, a musical tradition of the Brazilian northeast, gave lectures on African American musics and culturally responsive teaching, and formed a gospel choir. Her work has been published in the Choral Journal, Journal of General Music Education, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Education, and General Music: Dimensions of Practice. Her scholarly interests include Black music aesthetics and culturally responsive teaching in music education.