Clint Randles is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music and recipient of the 2015 Michael L. Mark Music Research Award for outstanding research by an early career scholar/researcher, issued by the University of Michigan. Randles has taught "Creative Performance Chamber Ensemble" at the undergraduate level, and "Philosophical and Historical Perspectives in Music Education" and "Creativity in Music Teaching and Learning" at the graduate level for students in the College of the Arts since 2010. He also teaches classes for students with disabilities in a community music outreach sponsored by Arts4All Florida. His research interests include the intersection of motivation theory and creativity, and exploration of the constructs "creative identity" and "creativities" in music education. He is the author of Music Teacher as Music Producer: How to Turn Your Classroom into a Center for Musical Creativity (Oxford University Press) and To Create: Imagining the Good Life Through Music (GIA Publications). He has four edited books: Musicianship: Composing in Band and Orchestra (GIA Publications), and Music Education: Navigating the Future (Routledge), The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education (Routledge), and Milestones in Music Education (Routledge). Randles has formed two book series, Musicianship through GIA Publishing (Chicago) and the New Directions in Music Education series (Routledge) to assist the music profession in realizing expanded curricular possibilities on a large scale. He is the winner a Bronze Telly Award for his original music (2021).