Accomplishments:

1. Past vice president of Organization of American Kodaly Educator’s Music Assn.
2. Past treasurer of Midwest Kodaly Music Educator’s Association
3. Past chair of the State Early Childhood Music Committee
4. Past chair of the Middle Level Repertoire and Standards committee of North Central
5. State Honor Choir Conductor in Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Indiana and WI

Credentials:

1. M.S., UW Milwaukee
2. B.S., Alverno College 

Interests:

1. I love to flower garden
2. I love to kike and walk my dog.
3. I love to be with my friends and my children.
4. I play tennis and have won at the state level for the past five years and completed at the divisional level for the past five years.    

Community Involvement and/or Service Work:

I cantor at church and lead the children’s Liturgy of the Word.

Personal Teaching Style:

I try to build ideas form the foundation up. As we learn to sing in choir, I work with what the student’s know and then let the music teach by what it requires to do a solid performance: rhythmic ideas, melodic ideas, diction, breathing , worked painting, expression of text and so forth. Discussion, experimentation and comparison are techniques I use often to build my student’s knowledge of choral singing.

How I integrate my faith and Catholic values into my teaching:

My faith and Catholic values are integrated into my teaching in several ways. First of all, who I am as a person is exhibited throughout the day by how I react to and respond to student’s questions and concerns. Secondly, how I treat my student one on one and in a group setting, displays who I am as a person. Lastly, as we explore the texts of songs, I am able to integrate Jesus’ teachings as they relate to the text of the songs we are studying.