EDUCATION

PhD in Music Education, Louisiana State University

BM and MME, University of North Texas

 
EXPERIENCE

            Children’s Music Development Center, 2005-present; Co-Director and Instructor,

     teaching children’s music classes, group piano classes, private piano lessons

Teacher’s Music Development Center, 2010-present; Director and Instructor,

    providing music and movement workshops for classroom teachers

Musikgarten, 1994-present, teacher/educator in the field of early childhood music,

  conducting workshops for music and elementary teachers in the US, England,

  Canada, Malaysia, South Korea, Beijing, and Taiwan

Music to Grow – Cobb County, 2006-present, teaching children’s music classes

University of Miami (FL)

  School of Education, 1995-2005, teaching Fine Arts Methods for elementary education majors

  School of Music, 1987-2005, teaching children’s music classes (0-9)

      1997-2005, supervising elementary music interns in Miami-Dade County schools

Private and Group Piano Instructor, 1972-present

Choir Director for K-1^st graders (volunteer), Northminster Presbyterian Church, Roswell, GA, 2009-present

 
PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS, MUSIC AFFILIATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS

              Certified Trainer, Bright from the Start: The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning

              1^st Vice-President, International Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, 2006-present

               Level III Certification, ECMMA

Co-author, Music Makers: at the Keyboard Year 1 (2001), Year 2 (2002), Year 3 (2004), published by Music Matters, Inc.

Co-author, Musikgarten Adults: Enjoying the Piano Together (2008)

Co-author, Drumming and Dancing (2006)

“Aesthetics in Education” grant from the University of Miami’s Project Succeed and the US Department of Education, 2001-2002

“When Appreciation of the Arts is Enough” Early Childhood Connections, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2002

  Grants from the Foundation for Music-Based Learning, research project working with

  Head-Start and Florida First Start children and teachers, 1994-1996

Grant from SAI, research project working with Florida First Start children and teachers, 2000

Perspectives: regular contributor to quarterly music professional journal

Affiliations: MENC, GAMEA, MTNA, GAMTA, ECMMA, SAI (music fraternity), Pi Kappa Lambda (national music honor society); listed in Outstanding Young Women in America