Lorelei Batisla-ong

Education

PhD, Music and Human Learning, The University of Texas at Austin
MM, Conducting (Instrumental), Texas State University
BM with Teacher Certification, Music Education, Southwest Texas State University

Biography

Dr. Lorelei Batisla-ong is Assistant Professor of General Music Education at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to UWM, she taught undergraduates at Baldwin Wallace University, The University of Texas at Austin, and University of the Incarnate Word, as well as taught elementary music for 14 years in San Antonio and Austin public schools. They served on the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) Board of Trustees, was the State Director of the National Association for Music Education – Texas (NAfME-Texas), and currently serves as an officer for the Music Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is Lead Editor of Decolonizing the Music Room and co-author of Elemental ʻUkulele: Pathways and Possibilities.

Lorelei’s teaching and learning interests include ʻukulele pedagogy, teacher noticing and cognition, teaching skills development, equity in the classroom and teaching profession, and generally wondering why everything is the way it is and how it can be better.

She is perpetually considering getting a dog.