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Daniel Steele

Daniel Steele, professor of Music Education and graduate coordinator for the School of Music, has been on the faculty at Central Michigan University since 1983. He specializes in preschool, elementary, and middle school music methods. Dr. Steele previously taught K-6 general music for eight years in Ohio, and has served as membership chair of the Michigan Music Educators Association and is a past president of the MMEA.  He received the Music Educator of the Year award from MMEA in 2007.  He is treasurer and a member of the executive committee of the Michigan Music Conference, serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Michigan Youth Arts Festival, and the board of Very Special Arts of Michigan. He has been published in the Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, The Michigan Music Educator, and recently published an elementary methods textbook and accompanying DVD entitled Music Is Fundamental: Fundamentals and Methods for Elementary Music. He has presented sessions at the Michigan Music Conference, the Michigan Music Education in-service conference as well as at the Alma Conference and the summer workshop at Michigan State University. Dr. Steele received the B.M.E. from Wheaton College, the M.M. from the University of Kansas, and the D.M.E. from the University of Cincinnati.

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