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 Isaac L. Bickmore

1034 West Malibu Dr. 

Tempe, AZ 85282

isaacbickmore@gmail.com

                                                                       

 

Education 

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Doctor of Philosophy in Music: Music Education (ABD)

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

 

Master of Music Education May, 2010

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Bachelor of Music: Choral Music Education Aug 2007

Minor in Spanish

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

University Teaching Experience

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Arizona State University

  • Dance Music and Meaning (Fall 2013)

  • Music for Children and Youth (Spring 2014)

  • Digital Hybrid Lab (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017)

  • Pop Music Lab (Summer 2015, Summer 2016)

  • Song Writing for Music Educators (Summer 2014)

  • The Art of Teaching Children Music Teaching Assistant (Fall 2013, Spring 2016)

  • Arts, Culture and the Economy Teaching Assistant (Fall 2016) 

  • Student Teacher Supervisor (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)

 

University of Utah, Instructor and Teaching Assistant

  • Fall 2007, MUSIC 1700 Introduction to Music Education, 24 students

  • Facilitated the use of the Music Education Lab at the University of Utah School of Music

 

Public School Teaching Experience

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Nibley Park School, Salt Lake City, Utah                                    Aug 2008- May 2013

General Music/Choir Teacher/Alternative Language Coordinator

  • K-8th General Music

  • Rock n’ Roll History Choir Director

  • Nibley Park Honors Choir Director

  • ESL Instructor

  • ERI Instructor

  • SIC Member

  • Music Camp July 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

 

Brighton High School, Salt Lake City, Utah                            Aug 2006-Dec 2006

  • Taught and managed the Mixed Chorus for eighteen weeks Assisted in teaching the Advanced Placement Theory course, the Concert Choir, and the Madrigals

 

Riley Elementary, Pre-K-- 4th grade music classes.                  Aug 2007- May 2008

  • Planned and executed the teaching of general music projects        

  • Integrated core subjects into the projects

 

Hillsdale Elementary, 4th grade, Salt Lake City, Utah              Jan 2006-April 2006   

  • Arts Bridge Scholarship appointment

  • Assisted the students in conceiving, writing, and performing an opera

  • Integrated core subjects into the project

 

Washington Elementary, 3rd grade, Salt Lake City, Utah       Jan 2005- April 2005

  • Familiarized students with the literary devices found in blues music

  • Assisted students in writing and performing their own blues songs

 

Salt Lake Arts Academy, Salt Lake City, Utah                                    Jan 2004- April 2004

  • Taught a unit based on the Civil Rights movement and the music associated with that movement.

  • Helped with the planning, rehearsal, and performance of music associated with Civil Rights. 

 

Research

 

Presentations

Tobias, E. Bickmore, I. Bledsoe, R. Rathgeber, J. (2015, May) Design and Iteration in Music Education. Presented at the Mountain Lake conference in Mountain Lake, Virginia.

 

Bickmore, I. Cano, T. Rathgeber, J. Sanchez, N. (2015, May) Reflecting In Action: Preservice Teacher and Graduate Student Reflections on a Middle School Songwriting Project. Presented at the Mountain Lake conference in Mountain Lake, Virginia.

 

Stauffer, S. Nichols, J. Bickmore, I. (2015, April) Living With Tenure: A Narrative

Presented at The Research In Music Education Conference in Exeter, England.

           

Bickmore, I., Rathgeber, J., VanKlompenberg, A. (2015, January) What’s going on in that classroom?: The wonderful and varied possibilities of student-centered ensembles. Presented at the Illinois Music Educators Association Conference in Illinois

 

Bickmore, I., Rathgeber, J., VanKlompenberg, A. (2015, February) What’s going on here?: The wonderful and varied possibilities of student-centered ensembles. Presented at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference in Texas.

 

Bickmore, I. (2014, April) What is Going on in that Choir: The Rock n Roll History Choir and a Robot Rock Project. One of three winning papers presented at the local Artswork conference at ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in Tempe, Arizona.

 

Bickmore, I. (2014, June) What is Going on in that Choir: The Rock n Roll History Choir and a Robot Rock Project. Presented at the national Association for Popular Music Educators (APME) conference in Los Angeles, California.

           

Invited Presentations

Bickmore, I. (2015, October) Young Adult Literature Mashup: Applying the Ideas from Contemporary Musical Practices to the World of Young Adult Literature Education. Presented in CIL 684 Fall 2015 at UNLV.

 

Bickmore, I. (2015, October) The Robot Rock Project: My Experiences Working With Adolescents on a Film/Concert Project. Presented in MUS 343, Fall 2015 via Skype at the University of Illinois.

 

Publications 

Bickmore, S. T. & Bickmore, I. (2016). Music and the Young Adult   Novel: Assessing How Adolescents “Read” the Music of Their Lives. In J.A. Hayn, J. S. Kaplan, & K. R. Clemmons Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher 2nd Edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Bickmore, I. & Bickmore, S. T. (in production summer of 2017) Exploring Music Connections and Opportunities in Brendan Kiely’s The Last True Love Story. In P. Greathouse, B. Eisenbach, & J. Kaywell (Eds.), Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Grants and Entrepreneurship

Content Team Lead for the NSF Grant Funded App Maker Pro Music Tech Lab App Design Village Fall 2016

Selected to co-teach a group of 27 high school students and 4 high school teachers with the goal of helping them design musical mobile apps as part of an NSF Funded Grant. 

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Author and Recipient of the Edson Grant at ASU 2015/2016, and 2016/2017

CEO of Bot + BotScripts LLC

Awarded $15,000.00 towards the founding of Bot + BotScripts, a company that makes programmable robots for kids and provides educational support to teachers who work with those kids.

 

Atom: Innovation + Product Development Speed Seed Competition Winner

Was awarded $10,000.00 in services toward the development of a working prototype for a programmable robot for kids after competing in a round robin interview pitch event.

           

Author and Recipient of the GPSA Group Travel Grant May 2015

Wrote a proposal and received funding for five graduate students who were attending the Mountain Lake Conference in Mountain Lake, Virginia.

              

Applied for the BMI Woody Guthrie Fellowship Spring 2015

Was the principal investigator and sole author.

 

Finalist for the PAVE Arts Entrepreneurship Grant at Arizona State University in the Fall of 2014

 

Author and Recipient of the Qwest Technology in the Classroom Grant $2,500.00

  • Was awarded two Apple Imac computers for the Music Education Computer Lab at Nibley Park

  • Found matching funds for two additional Apple Imac Computers through the Afterschool program

 

Community Engagement and Service

 

Pioneer Preparatory Academy Robotics Club​ 

  • Managed an after-school robotics club for 10 students k-5 once a week for the Spring 2016 semester.

  • Taught basic principles of coding using block based graphic coding interfaces like scratch.mit.edu, boardgames like Robot Turtles, and group activities like game design and coding obstacle courses.

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Student Teacher Supervisor

  • Spring 2016 Supervised Three teacher candidates

  • Spring 2015 Supervised two teacher candidates

  • Spring 2014 Supervised two teacher candidates

 

Musical Maker Space at the MIM March 20th and 21st 2015

  • Planned and carried out a musical maker space at the Musical Instrument Museum for two days

  • Supervised two undergraduates who planned and ran a MakeyMakey musical center.

           

Songs of the Heart Project Spring, 2014

  • Carried out the grant-funded project, Songs of the Heart in association with the Broadwa League and ASU Gammage Auditorium.

 

Music Education Consulting

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Contracted Music Education Consultant for the Phoenix Symphony

  • Helped develop programming for a traveling educational outreach concert featuring their woodwind quintet.

  • Helped develop curricular materials for pre, during, and post activities for students that they engage with

 

Contracted Music Education Consultant for Alexander Laing and The Leading Tone an educational non-profit group that offers classes on bucket drumming, step, and other musical projects in after-school programs in south phoenix.

  • Currently helping to develop a project based learning, interdisciplinary curriculum

  • Developing a training program on project based learning for the educators that work at the Leading Tone

 

Volunteer Music Education Consultant for OME (Oh My Ears) a local Phoenix based non-profit organization dedicated to the development of new music in the greater Phoenix area.

  • Helped develop and write curriculum for community events and competitions including the Epic Maker Instrument Challenge and the annual Marathon Concert

  • Helped with grant writing

 

Volunteer Music Education Consultant for AZ Beat Labs an educational organization in association with the Mesa Center for the Arts that teaches the fundamentals of beat making to children of all ages

  • Helped develop curriculum and online interaction 

           

Related Activities

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  • Author and Illustrator The Robotronic ABC’s http://isaacbickmore.wordpress.com

  • Children of the Mud Volcano ASU Gamelan Ensemble 2013-Present

  • The Crimson Five, male acapella group, Dec 2005- Present (Performed at the International Rotary Convention in Salt Lake City, and opening session of the Utah State Legislature)

  • The Well-Known Facts, local band, Aug 2006- Present

  • University of Utah Singers directed by Brady Allred, choir member and featured soloist, Sept. 2004-May 2006

  • University of Utah Concert Choir directed by John Cooksey, choir member and featured soloist, Sept. 2003- May 2004

  • Utah State University Chamber Singers directed by Cory Evans, choir member and     featured soloist, Sept. 2002- May 2003

  • Choir Director for local church congregation, Aug. 2008- 2009

 

Other Skills and Interests

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  • Computer Skills—Sibelius, Garage Band, iMovie, Scratch, Soundtrap, basic robotic programming

  • Music— Singing and songwriting Voice Acting    

 

Honors

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The Edson Grant 2015/2016 and 2016/2017

The Herberger Scholarship

The ASU Graduate Education Grant

Full Teaching Assistantship and Full Tuition Scholarship for the Doctorate in Music   Education at ASU from 2013-Present

Outstanding Teacher Award, Nibley Park School, 2009-2010

Full Teaching Assistantship and Full Tuition Scholarship for the Master’s in Music Education program at the University of Utah. August 2007-May 2008

Arts Bridge Scholarship, 2003-2006

Dean’s List, 2005

University of Utah School of Music Vocal Scholarship 2003-2005

State finalist in the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Competition

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