Sandra Stauffer is Professor of Music at Arizona State University, where she teaches undergraduate courses in general music methods and graduate courses in creativity, qualitative research, narrative inquiry, and social and cultural dimensions of music teaching and learning. She presents music education workshops and clinics throughout the United States and abroad. Her studies of children and young people as composers and her research on music teacher preparation can be found in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the Journal of Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, The Mountain Lake Reader, and The Orff Echo. Sandra is co-author with Margaret Barrett of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty. She is also an author for the 2005-2008 editions of the Silver Burdett Making Music textbooks for elementary and middle schools, and she has collaborated with composer Morton Subotnick in the development of his creative music software for children.