Schools Where I have Trained Teachers in Music and Movement

The Children’s Montessori School, Ipswich, MA [four 1-day sessions throughout the school year]

 Lake Mary Montessori, Lake Mary, FL [2 ½ days, 17-hour training] [3-day scheduled June 2010]

National Center for Montessori Education – New England, Gordon College, Wenham, MA [2 days, 15-hour training]

The Montessori School of Pensacola (FL) [2 years; 15-hour workshops each]

Toronto Montessori School, Richmond Hill campus [2-day training]

Pasco County (FL) Public Schools [2-day training for music specialists’ summer retreat at Daytona Beach]

The Sagemont School, Weston, FL [6-hour training]

Pinecrest Presbyterian Day School, Miami [4-hour training]

Boca Raton Preschool [2 days, 15-hour training]

Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired (Baton Rouge) [4-hour training]

Appleton, WI Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc [2 days, 15 hour training]

Cupertino, CA Music Studio [5 days, 30 hour training]

Korean Community Presbyterian Church Preschool (Duluth, GA) [3-hour training]

Wayside Baptist Church Children’s Sunday School Leaders (Miami) [4-hour training]

Rollins College (Winter Park, FL) Early Childhood Music Specialists [4-hour training

First Presbyterian Church of Orlando Children’s Music Ministry [6-day 38-hour training]

International Musikgarten Workshops 1996–present   

(I’ve conducted 1- and 2-week workshops in several of these countries for multiple years and am scheduled for 5 workshops in South Korea, June 2010.)

Seoul, Pusan, Taegu, Taejon, & Kwangju South Korea

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Toronto and Calgary Canada

Exeter, England

Beijing, China

Taipei, Taiwan

US Musikgarten Wokrshops 1994-present

(I’ve conducted 2 ½ - 6 day workshops in several of these cities for multiple years.)

Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, FL; Atlanta, Decatur, and Marietta, GA;  San Jose, San Diego, and Cupertino, CA;  Oak Park and Wheaton, IL;  Cincinnati & Columbus Ohio; Richmond, VA; Des Moines, IA; Greensboro, NC; Boston, Grafton, and Lowell, MA; Seattle and Redmond, WA; Denver, CO; Dallas and Houston, TX;  St. Paul, MN; Baltimore, MD; Logan, UT; Kansas City, KS; Honolulu, HI (approved by the Hawaii State Dept of Ed for Professional Development credit)

In addition, cities where I have conducted 4-7 hour introductory music sessions:  Ft. Lauderdale, Pensacola, and Winter Park, FL; Birmingham, AL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL

CONVENTION PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE

Keynote Speeches

Baltimore County (MD) Early Childhood Education Conference, March 2009

Pensacola (FL) AEYC, ECAF & SECA Annual Early Childhood Recognition Luncheon

National

MENCs (2006 Salt Lake City, 1984 Chicago Research Poster Presentation);  MTNAs (2006 Austin, 2002 Cincinnati, 1999 Los Angeles); American Orff-Schulwerk Society (1998 Tampa); American Montessori Society (1998 Boston, 2000 New York City); World Piano Pedagogy Conference (2001 Orlando); Musikgarten Festivals (DE 1998, 2007; VA 2001; TX 2005; NC 2006, 2009;WI 2008, 2010); National Guild of the Community Schools of the Arts (2007 Los Angeles)

Local, State, and Regional Conference Presentations

Louisiana MTNA (Northwestern State University, Natchitoches), Georgia MTAs (Atlanta and Athens), Georgia MEAs (Savannah), Florida MTAs (Boca Raton, Jacksonville, Pensacola, St. Petersburg), Florida MEAs (Tampa and Jacksonville), Texas MTA (Arlington), Texas MEA (San Antonio), California MEAs (Sacramento and Ontario), Illinois MEA (Peoria), Iowa MTA (U. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls), Virginia MEA (The Homestead at Hot Springs), Southern Division MENC (Tampa, FL), California Association of Professional Music Teachers/MTNA (Costa Mesa and Sacramento); AISF - Association of Independent Schools of FL (Miami); ECMMA Regional Conferences (Atlanta and Williamsburg, KY); Greenville SC MTA Fall Workshop; GA  Association on Young Children (Atlanta); Early Childhood Education Conference (Decatur); Northeastern Wisconsin Piano Forum (Green Bay); American Montessori Society (AMS) Winter Regional Seminar (San Francisco); AMS Fall Regional Seminar (Tampa); AMS Fall Regional Seminar (Oakland, CA); Atlanta ECMMA Fall Workshop (Sandy Springs); Tampa Bay Piano Teachers Forum (St. Petersburg);  Music Teacher’s Association of California/MTAC (Riverside, CA); Miami Baptist Association Children’s Choir Leadership Clinic, FL Assoc of Christian Schools and Colleges (Orlando)

MENC: The National Association for Music Educators, formerly Music Educator’s National Conference

MTNA: Music Teachers National Association; MTAs are the stare affiliates

ECMMA: Early Childhood Music and Movement Association