This week we sat down with Dr. Rhoda Bernard, the Managing Director of the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Education (the only organization of its kind in the world) and the Assistant Chair of Music Education at Berklee College of Music.

Dr. Bernard holds a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in government from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Music with academic honors in jazz voice from New England Conservatory. She earned both her Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Bernard regularly presents keynote presentations and research at conferences throughout the United States and abroad, and she provides professional development workshops for educators in local, national, and international forums. Her work has been published in several book chapters and in numer ...