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Name: Dr. Rochelle Karen Pyne
Title: Director of Graduate Education Programs
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Coordinator of the Greystone Cohort
Office Location: Dyson 388E
Extension: (845) 575-3000 ext. 2994
Email: rochelle.pyne@marist.edu
Degrees Held: Ed.D - Columbia University, Teachers College
Ed.M - Columbia University, Teachers College
M.A. - Columbia University, Teachers College
B.A. - Marymount Manhattan College

Certifications: New York State School District Administrator
New York State Music Teacher- K-12

Bio: Rochelle Pyne earned an Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the founder and artistic director of Music-Key, a not for profit organization that creates educational performing arts experiences-performances, workshops, and school residency programs,to honor and highlight cultural diversity and similarities.

Interests: Designing interdisciplinary projects as an instructional strategy
Playing the piano
Spending time with family, friends, and pets
Restoring old houses
Breathing ocean air
Crafts
Taking long walks
Gardening

Awards & Honors: GRANTS AWARDED

Hon. Senator Saland, New York State Special Legislative Project to establish The Dutchess County Arts in Education Institute

United Way, Poughkeepsie, NY to create performing arts programs for elementary school aged children

Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie, NY
Blues In Our Schools workshops for high school students and a performing arts after-school programs for elementary students

McCann Foundation, Poughkeepsie, NY-Family oriented music workshops for The Task Force for Child Protection

Honorary Thespian, John Jay High School

Scholarship, The Lee Strasberg Acting Institute

Publications: Pyne, R.(2009). The Blues An Interdisciplinary Project. www.menc.org/jazz/archives

Pyne, R. (2006). The Blues: An interdisciplinary curricular design (Doctoral dissertation). Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses (UMI No. 3269107)

Pyne, R. (2001).New York State Supports the Arts in Education. School Administrators Association of New York State, 30 (3), 21-24.


Research Interests: Integrating the arts into the curriculum
Music as a form of cultural expression

Affiliations: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Music Educators (MENC)
Music Makers Relief Foundation
The B.B. King Museum and Interpretative Centre

Presentations: 2008 The Arts, Community and Curriculum Integration
Conseil des Arts de la Baie, Nova Scotia, Canada

2007 How to Address the Adolescent Complaint Reading is Boring
National Council of Teachers of English-NCTE
Annual Convention, New York

2007 Nothing is created in a vacuum: Drawing on the
Blues to understand and create art and community,

Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont


2007 The Blues: An Interdisciplinary Curricular Design
Music Educators National Conference,
Hartford,Connecticut