While reflective education has a long history, the active stewardship of complex learning environs is particularly urgent today given three factors: (1) the increasing impact of public policy on education; (2) the deep cultural changes brought about by new media; and (3) the migration of the classroom from a purely physical space to one where virtual components connect us with the entire world. Patrick Schmidt is Associate Professor of Music Education at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He joined the faculty after eleven years at the Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University in Princeton, US. He teaches courses in secondary and choral methods as well as the philosophy and sociology of music, research, curriculum, and Hip Hop culture.