Kimberly McCord

Professional Experience

Kimberly A. McCord is Professor Emerita of Music Education at Illinois State University. Currently she has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University, Teachers College Columbia University, and the University of Bridgeport. She is widely published on topics in special music education and jazz pedagogy. Her books include Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities, Exceptional Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities: International Perspectives, and Accessing Music: Using UDL to Enhance Student Learning in the General Music Classroom. McCord was appointed Editor of the prestigious Oxford Handbook on Special Music Education and Music Therapy that will be published late 2024 or early 2025. She is the past chair of the ISME Commission on Music in Special Education, Music Therapy and Music Medicine and the founder and past chair of the National Association for Music Education Special Research Interest Group on Children with Exceptionalities. She is the founder and director of Just Accessible Music (JAM,) an equity-based music school in Connecticut.