Waves of Wellness: Developing Ecological Habits of Mind Through the Arts.Keynote address for the LTTA 10^th Anniversary Forum, Winnipeg District School Board, Winnipeg, MN, November 5, 2010.

Architecture as Pedagogy: The Third Educator. Presented at the Reggio Inspired Caring and Education Conference, Winnipeg, MB, May 6-9, 2009.

School Architecture, Complexity, and Mathematics. Keynote address presented at the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education Conference, Toronto, ON, February, 2006.

The Schools that Shape Us. Public Lecture Series of the National Institute of the Humanities and Creative Arts, Canberra, Australia, June 2005.

Why the Arts Matter. Keynote address presented at the York Region District School Board Conference, The Power of Literacy Through the Arts, January, 2004.

Music Makes a Difference. Keynote address presented at The Art of Teaching Conference, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, ON, June, 2004.

From Guns and Knives to Trumpets and Paintbrushes: Why the Arts Matter. Presented at the Opening of the Kay Meek Performing Arts Centre, West Vancouver, B.C., September, 2004

The Arts and Mathematics. Keynote address presented at Mathematics as Story: A Symposium on Mathematics Through the Lens of Art and Technology, London, ON, June, 2003.

Why the Arts Matter: Student and Teacher Engagement. Presented at the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic/Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, January 2003.

Work that Matters: Research and Policy in Music Education. Presented at the Sixth Colloquium for Teachers of General Music Methods, Mountain Lake, Virginia, May 2001.

Spheres of Influence: The Interplay between Music Research, Technology, Heritage, and Music Education. Presented at the International Society for Music Education 24th World Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, July, 2000.

Artistic Forms of Research. Presented at the Conference for Research in Music Education, University of Exeter, UK, April, 1999.

Teacher Education and the Arts. Presented at the National Symposium on Arts Education, Cape Breton, August, 1997.

Popular Culture and the Music Classroom. Presented at the American Orff-Schulwerk Association Annual Conference: Bridging Traditions, Memphis, Tennessee, November, 1996.

Wrapping up the conference: Themes and directions. Keynote address presented at the National Symposium on Arts Education. Ottawa, ON, 1999.

Measuring the Instrumental Outcomes of Arts Education. Keynote address presented to the Assembly of Regions of Europe Conference on Arts Education, Dublin, Ireland, 2004.

Responsive Research: The Art of the Bricoleur. Keynote address presented at the Third Annual Grad Conference in Education, York University, Toronto, ON, March, 2005.