CURRICULUM, MUSIC, AND COMMUNITY | CREDITS

Curriculum, Music, and Community

THE CURRICULUM, MUSIC, & COMMUNITY PROJECT (CMC) is a collaborative program of the School of Education and the Curriculum in Folklore at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Arts Council, and participating North Carolina schools and local arts councils.

Funding for CMC is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Web hosting is provided by LEARN NC.

Project Directors

  • Glenn Hinson, Co-Director
    Associate Professor and Chair, Curriculum in Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Dwight Rogers, Co-Director
    Associate Professor, School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill

Project Coordinator

  • Sydney Brown

Graduate Assistants

  • Wendy Bray
  • Sarah Starnes

North Carolina Arts Council

  • Arts in Education — Linda Bamford
  • Folklife Director —Wayne Martin
  • Folklife Specialist — Beverly Patterson

Ashe County

  • Ashe County Arts Council — Jane Lonon
  • Blue Ridge Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Earlene Barker, Jerri Eller, Dawn Richardson
  • West Jefferson Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Dianne Brown, Lu Hagel, Juli VonCanon
  • Music Instructor — Judy Dancy

Caldwell County

  • Caldwell Arts Council — Lee Carol Giduz
  • Gamewell Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Rebecca Austin, Gretchen Griffith, Donna Hopkins, Robyn Rodriguez, Lesa Widener
  • Music Instructor — Phoebe Tucker

Durham County

  • Durham Arts Council — Jane Williams
  • Forest View Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Karen Carr, Mike Cowal, Mary Earp, Christina Royster, Peggy Waters

Haywood County

  • Haywood County Arts Council — Trina Royar, Joe Sam Queen
  • Central Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Michele Medford, Jan Nesbitt, Andria Spicer
  • Physical Education Instructor — Diana Hofle

Orange County

  • Orange County Arts Commission — Ann Kaplan, Jim White, Martha Shannon
  • New Hope Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Kurt Beckenhauer, Kelly Collins, Christie Gardner, Betty Stephan
  • Art Instructor — Sarah Finman
  • Music Instructor — Sarah Davies

Surry County

  • Surry County Arts Council — Tanya Rees
  • Cedar Ridge Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Bobbie Dillman, Barbara Luffman, Rhonda McHone
  • Music Instructor — Luann Lovelace
  • Shoals Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Barbara Harbour, Sharon Jessup
  • Westfield Elementary 4th Grade Teachers — Lori Hiatt, Melanie Slate
  • Music Instructor — Sherri Collins

Web and CD design

  • David Walbert, LEARN NC, School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill

Photo credits

  • Front page photograph of children listening to music:
  • Photograph of Dwight Rogers, Glenn Hinson, and children on the Project History page by Steve Exum. Appeared in Endeavors, Winter 2002 (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
  • Photograph of The Badgett Sisters by Jock Lauterer for The Carolina Slate, News from the School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winter 2001.
  • All other photographs by faculty, staff, or participating teachers of the Curriculum, Music, and Community project except where otherwise noted.