Anne Mileski

Anne is currently completing her doctorate in music education through Boston University, where she is a doctoral candidate. She earned master’s degrees in music education and trumpet performance from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan. Prior to her current roles, Anne taught early childhood and elementary music in public and private schools in Dallas and Plano, Texas, children’s chorus for the Indiana University Children’s Choir, and elementary music in Spokane Valley, Washington.

As a pedagogy enthusiast, Anne is certified in Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy, Music Learning Theory Elementary General Level I, and has completed coursework in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She has presented at both the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and Organization of American Kodály Educators national conferences, several regional and state music education conferences, local Orff and Kodály chapter workshops, and has provided professional development for school districts across the country. She has served on faculty for Kodály teacher education programs in Maryland, Texas, and Minnesota, and piloted an OAKE Seedling Level I Kodály Program at Eastern Washington University.

Anne’s research interests include song acquisition and vocal development for young children, self-efficacy and growth mindset in preservice music teacher education, and using self-determination theory as a lens for sequencing music instruction. She presents regularly on topics including purposeful movement, curricular sequencing, improvisation, and applications of self-determination theory in the elementary music classroom.