Jennifer Sparkman Bartee

Dr. Jennifer Sparkman Bartee serves as Assistant Professor in the Division of Education, Health and Social Work within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia. An award-winning educator and researcher, she specializes in arts-integrated pedagogy and inclusive curriculum development across music education and early childhood settings.

Her educational foundation includes a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver. Dr. Bartee's research centers on curriculum theory, arts integration, and music education, with particular emphasis on caring philosophical approaches to arts education, historical perspectives of educational thinkers like Hildegard of Bingen, and application of child development theories in early childhood contexts.

Recent scholarly output reveals strong focus on arts-integrated teacher training and curriculum innovation, including investigations into music business education in secondary schools and collaborative autoethnographic studies of preservice teacher development. Her work bridges historical educational philosophy with contemporary pedagogical practice.

• Teacher of Promise, College of Arts and Sciences, UDC (2024)
• Early Career Scholar Awards from AERA's Eisner and Dewey SIGs (2023-2024)
• Uhrmacher Award for Research and Scholarship (2017)
• Multiple teaching honors including Mayoral Citation and Congressional Recognition (2006-2007)

As Supervisor of Clinical Teaching, Dr. Bartee mentors student teachers while serving as doctoral dissertation advisor at Marymount University. Her leadership extends to chairing AERA's Elliot Eisner Special Interest Group and Executive Board membership in the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum. She actively shapes curriculum policy through committee work in UDC's Education, Health and Social Work division and co-curated the DC Public Library exhibition on UDC's education program history.