About Me
Dr. James Frankel is the instrumental and general music teacher at the Franklin Avenue Middle School in Franklin Lakes, NJ where he has taught for the past 10 years. Dr. Frankel earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Montclair State University in 1993, where he studied the tuba as well as composition. In 1996, Dr. Frankel completed his Masters Degree in Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where he completed his doctoral studies in 2002. The focus of both his Masters Degree and Doctorate was the role of the standards, assessment and technology in the music classroom.
Dr. Frankel has published over 30 articles in various state, national and international journals of music education. He is also the author of “Teaching Classroom Music in the Keyboard Lab”, published by SoundTree. He has presented clinics and workshops at the statewide and national level. He has appeared on the MENC Television program Tempo, where he discussed the role of technology in the music classroom. Recently, he was included as a contributing author in Strategies for Teaching: Technology, and Spotlight on Technology, both published by MENC. Dr. Frankel is on the Board of Directors for TI:ME where he also serves as the Chair of the State Chapters Committee and the Editor of the TI:ME E-mail Newsletter.