Sandra Nicolucci
Associate Professor of Music, Music Education
BM, MM, EdD, Boston University. Dr. Nicolucci is a frequent clinician, specializing in presentations on standards-based curriculum development, assessment, public relations, classroom management, music program evaluation, instructional strategies, and a variety of other music education topics, as well as a composer of music for young children. She serves as program reviewer for school music departments as well as consultant and facilitator for music curriculum development initiatives, including helping develop the first Arts Curriculum Framework for Massachusetts as well as the subsequent state committee charged with developing an arts component for the emerging MCAS. She is principal of Music Education Consulting, serving as program evaluator for public schools, music organizations, and colleges as well as consultant on music curriculum development projects and an active member of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA), having served on many conference planning committees, state and district boards, and as leader of the affiliate association, Administrators in Music Education (AIME). She has received the Lowell Mason Award, the MMEA Visionary Leadership Award, and the MMEA Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor. Boston University awarded her its Distinguished Alumna Award, and the National Music Foundation honored her innovative work in curriculum development with the American Music Education Initiative Award. She has served on the education advisory committee and strategic planning team for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Education and Community Programs Department and has assisted with a variety of initiatives on behalf of arts-centered pilot and charter schools in Boston and is an active member of the Urban Music Educators' Coalition (UMEC) whose mission is to improve access to music instruction for Boston children. She was a member of the Music Education faculty at the Boston Conservatory for over 30 years, where she taught courses in methods, developing a field-based internship program, and working with student teachers. She previously taught music and served as arts administrator in Newton and Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the K-12 Director of Performing Arts in the Wellesley, Massachusetts, public schools, where she supervised programs in music, drama, and dance for 18 years. The Wellesley program was twice cited as one of the "100 Best Communities for Music Education" in the US.