Carolynn is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University and past president of The National Association for Music Education. Before college teaching, she taught and coordinated elementary classroom music programs. Active as a speaker and clinician, she has given presentations throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching, 9th ed. (Routledge, 2018), PianoLab: An Introduction to Class Piano, 7th ed. (Thomson/Schirmer, 2012), The Piano Advantage: A Concise Introduction for Beginners (Thomson/Schirmer, 2006) and has published more than fifty articles in professional journals. She served as series editor for sixteen publications (MENC, 1995–2003) related to implementing and assessing the 1994 National Standards for Music Education and was a member of the writing team for both the 1994 standards and the 2014 National Core Music Standards. She was inducted into the Music Educators Hall of Fame in 2014.