Lawrence Scripp

Background

About Lawrence Scripp

Lawrence Scripp. Educated as a musical performer, composer, music theorist, curriculum developer, author, and psychologist of music and education, Dr. Larry Scripp is at present a senior faculty of theoretical studies and the Founding Chair of the Music-in-Education Concentration at New England Conservatory, and the Founding Director and senior researcher for the Center for Music and Arts in Education (CMIE), an organization that provides consultant services for organizations that embrace arts and arts integration practices, program evaluation, and research design, data collection, and analysis. Dr. Scripp has served as Founding Co-Director of the Conservatory Lab Charter School and a Principal Investigator for more than a dozen arts learning research projects in public schools and is currently working with arts learning portfolio assessments in two CAPE/Chicago Public School District projects, Oakland Unified School District Music Integration Learning Environment (MILE) program, the Miami Choral Academy, the Center for Arts Education in New York, and the San Francisco Opera. Dr. Scripp’s most influential writings include his essay on music and learning research in the Critical Links Compendium [aep-arts.org] and his innovative research-based Music PLUS Music Integration education practices as reported in the International Handbook on Innovation (Pergamon). More recently, ArtsEdSearch has posted Dr. Scripp’s Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report that details the expansive scope of art learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools and Arts Education Policy Review (April 2013) has published his treatise on the challenges that conceptions of innate talent pose to music ‘s evolving role in 21st education. Lawrence Scripp has also drafted the Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Primer for the MILE project in Oakland Public Schools.