Michele Kashub is Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern Maine. She is a frequent workshop presenter on the topic of music composition in the classroom and she has published in such journals as Research Studies in Music Education, Choral Journal, Music Educators Journal, and Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Janice Smith is Associate Professor of Music Education at Queens College, City University of New York. Like Kaschub, she is a frequent workshop presenter and also auther of articles which have appeared in several music education journals. Together they are authors of Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking (2009).