I was fortunate enough to find an article that gave tips and suggestions for how to teach social justice in a music classroom. The article was written about Edward Shieh, a music educator who got his start teaching music to prison inmates in New York City. Throughout the article the author explains Shieh’s philosophy of music education by saying “Curriculum comes from and goes back to the world.” This article was written in April of 2015 and it references the events that have taken place thus far in Ferguson, Missouri and how those events are shaping today’s students. Rather than leaving the outside world outside, Edward Shieh brings it to center stage and teaches students how to take part in mature conversation about it through song. “There