Our Team

Dr. Lawrence Scripp

CMLIE President and CEO

Educated as a musical performer, composer, music theorist, curriculum developer, author, and psychologist of music and education, Dr. Scripp is the president and CEO of the Center for Music in Education (CMIE), an not-for-profit organization which provides consultant services for organizations that embrace what is now termed musical literacy-in-education teaching practices, program evaluation, research design, data collection, and analysis. Dr. Scripp has served as Founding Academic and Music-in-Education Co-Director of the Conservatory Lab Charter School, a Principal Investigator for more than a dozen arts learning research projects including National Center for Music-in-Education and its Learning Laboratory School Network in 12 U.S public school districts and was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus from New England Conservatory. For the past four years he created curricular for a 40 school network in Singapore creating, running and testing out what he now calls "the proof of concept" of his IDC based Musical Literacy Education programs to be now tested now in diverse population  public schools as based on results reported in Dr. Scripp's ResearchGate profile (see a full list of publications).

Joshua Gilbert, Ed. M.

CMLIE Treasurer and Senior Researcher

Josh Gilbert is a doctoral student in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received his bachelor’s degree in music from New England Conservatory and his master’s degree in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gilbert’s professional experience includes 10 years as a freelance musician and music teacher, research positions with Harvard Project Zero and Harvard’s READS Lab, faculty positions with New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music, and curriculum design and evaluation with MindChamps preschools in Singapore. His publications have appeared in Arts Education Policy Review, AERA Open, the Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Reading and Writing, among others (full publication list available here).

Jin Li Lim

CMLIE Research Associate and Principal Teacher Trainer

Jin Li is a Masters student in the National Institute of Education in Singapore, focusing on her interest in Educational Neuroscience. She received her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and she had worked professionally as an engineer, piano technician and vocalist prior to joining the education industry. Her experiences in education include teaching Musical Literacy-in-Education in a cluster of preschools to children from 18 months to 6 years old, mentoring teachers for on-the-job training, conducting mass trainings for the network of 40 schools and was the Research Associate for MindChamps Applied Integration Research. Adopting the philosophy and role of an artist-teacher-scholar, Jin Li evaluates her teaching practice through these 3 perspectives, bridging theoretical research into classroom practice and teacher training for the CMLIE.