2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Scott Shuler

President - National Association for Music Education

Scott C. Shuler is the Arts Education specialist in the Connecticut State Department of Education.  He previously served as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for the Simsbury Public Schools and as an associate professor at California State University, Long Beach.  An experienced K-12 and college music teacher and active clinician, Dr. Shuler holds numerous awards for teaching, writing, and leadership from state and national organizations.  He served on the task forces that developed America’s first National Standards in Music in 1994; co-chaired the development of the music section of the 1997 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in the Arts; co-chaired the CCSSO interstate arts assessment consortium; served as president of the National Council of State Supervisors of Music; and is currently president of NAfME: The National Association for Music Education (formerly MENC) and co-chair of the writing team updating National Standards in Music.

Past Balanced Mind Keynote Speakers

Jacques D'Amboise included 30 dancers in his Keynote Address - 2002

The Balanced Mind Conference has been honored by a wonderful series of Keynote Speakers over the first sixteen years.


2011    Dr. Daniel Levitin

2010    Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft
2009    Dr. Jerrold Ross
2008   Tom Chapin
2007    Dr. Todd Siler
2006    Dr. Eric Booth
2005    Dr. Benjamin Zander
2004    Dr. Roger Taylor
2003    Dr. Elliot Eisner
2002    Jacques D'Amboise
2001 - Dr. Leon Botstein, Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

2000 - Dr Howard Gardner
1999    Larry Rivers, Dr. Edward Lalor
1998    Marvin Hamlish
1997    Mark Green
1996    Dr. Maxine Greene, Kitty Carlisle Hart,
            Dr. Eric Oddleifson