​Yael Haislip (she/her) is an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. Yael currently instructs MUED270: Critical Issues in Music Education and ARSC​​301: Aesthetics and Education. She is also a student herself and is currently pursuing her Ed.D. in Literacy Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation (upcoming) is a practitioner inquiry focused on preservice teachers' experiences with embodied learning through the arts. Previously, she attended the University of Delaware where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Education with a minor in Jazz Studies. Post-graduation, she had the pleasure of teaching secondary school music for 6.5 years in both public and private settings. From 2010-2016, Yael also served as a research mentor and collaborator for UD Arts Bridge America, a program geared toward building partnerships between scholars and school communities in arts integration.

Yael’s current research a​​nd professional work focuses on arts integrated learning, culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogy, preservice education, and professional development. In recent years, Yael worked with teach​ers at the Gateway Lab School and teaching artists at DiAE (the Delaware Institute for Arts in Education), providing workshops in music-integrated instruction and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She also served as a research mentor and educational coordinator for cross-collaborative multidisciplinary productions at UD such as Same Story, Different Countries (2016) and Suite Blackness: Black Dance in Cinema (2023).

Whether through professional scholarship or community volunteer work, Yael is committed to t​he elevation of marginalized students and families and the education of school practitioners for social justice.​