Music Makes A Difference

12 years teaching 3rd-5th General Music 4 years teaching K-2 General Music 4 years teaching 6th grade General Music 4 years teaching beginning band and beginning orchestra. 1 year teaching High School Concert and Marching Band. 3 years teaching drumline/percussion ensembles. 20+ years private lesson instructor, mostly piano and flute 14+ years Religious music performance and directing 12+ years Piano performance and accompanist

All-Inclusive!!! Every child can learn and be passionate about music because there are so many different avenues! I give students the opportunity to explore everything music has to offer with continuous combinations of singing, instruments, movement, percussion, and everything else available to us! I continually strive to reach outside of my classroom. Music is an integral part of any school system, and I feel it is the music teachers job to make us and the importance of our craft known outside of the short time we spend with our students each week.

John Philip Sousa Award

2012 Graduate of McKendree University, Lebanon IL. BA in Music Education, Endorsements in Middle School History and Middle School Literature

I am a wife, mom, fur-mama, church music director, private lesson instructor, piano accompanist, and full-time music teacher. I live, breath, and sleep music! Thank you for the opportunity to use my life passion to enter your classroom and pass on the passion to more children!