Her research focuses on parenting musically and the interplay of enjoyment and agency in children’s music making. Koops teaches early childhood music classes at The Music Settlement in Cleveland. Koops has published widely in music education journals and edited books and is the recipient of a Grammy Foundation Grant for her research on musical parenting (2017). Koops maintains the website musicplayzone.com as a means to applying research on early childhood music teaching and learning for parents and early childhood teachers.