Dr. Carla Becker teaches Music, Music Education, and Education courses.
She received a Bachelor of Music Education (BME) and Percussion Performance degree from Central Michigan University.
Master of Music (M.M) in Percussion Performance with an Ethnomusicology emphasis from the University of Washington.
Doctor of Music Education (EdD) from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Becker’s passions reside in preparing K-12th Grade Creative, Culturally Competent, General and Instrumental, Anti-Racist pedagogues. Most importantly, her goal is to cultivate creative thinkers. Her research and teaching interests include Ethnomusicology, General Music Pedagogies, Creativity, Performative Identities, Race and Identity in Education, Percussion, Popular Music Education/Hip Hop Music Education, Mindfulness in Education, and Arts Integration (steAm). She draws from her ethnomusicology research, her percussion performance background and 18 years of teaching K-12th Grade music in Seattle Public Schools to inform her collegiate level teaching. She has conducted Ethnomusicology and Music Education field research in Ghana, Jamaica, and The Gambia. Her teaching emphasis centers around percussive, world music, improvisation, and movement-based pedagogies. She is an avid pedagogue of Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Orff Schulwerk. As a classically trained percussionist studying with the late Robert Hohner, recordings include Songlines and Lift Off from the DMP record label. Her interests remain with World Music, Jazz, and Popular Music performance mediums.