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Bernadette Colley
Interdisciplinary Arts
Policy Research
BM, Syracuse University; MA, McGill University; EdD, Harvard University. Dr. Colley is Founder and Principal of Colley Consulting (www.colleyconsulting.com), specializing in evaluation and policy design in arts education and an active a choral director in the Boston area. She has served as a Music Evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and is Recipient of the Reston Prize from the National Associations of Schools of Dance, Music, Theatre, Art and Design; the Herold Hunt Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
As an Arts Education Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts, she testified for the Fellows’ program reauthorization before the National Committee on the Arts. Her research appears in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Update, Chamber Music, and in proceedings from international conferences and symposia. She is the author of Minds Alive: Teachers as Scholars (Council for Basic Education) - case studies reflecting the importance of intellectual rejuvenation for teachers.
She has taught at Harvard University, McGill University, Massachusetts College of Art, and in public schools in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. Her research interests include policy, interdisciplinary arts education, and multicultural music education.