The 2004-2005 school year is my second year to teach at Barbara Bush Elementary School and in the GPISD.  I am thrilled to be here and am having a great time teaching the wonderful students here. 

I taught in public schools for 19 years prior to coming to Bush, most of those years as a middle school choir director.  My first teaching position was as the Assistant Choral Director at Odessa High School in Odessa, TX.  I have also taught in Mesquite, Cedar Hill and Farmers Branch.  I taught 2 years of elementary music in Cedar Hill.  I have also served as choral director at churches and for 8 years was the Assistant Director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus.

I thoroughly enjoy teaching elementary music!  Even though I also loved my teaching days in secondary choral music, working in the elementary grades offers so much variety!  I am having a lot of fun working with different kinds of music and the many instruments that we have at Bush.  The students really love experiencing music through playing instruments as well as singing.  Our students are very well-behaved, intelligent and talented, so I feel very lucky to be here. 

Some personal information about me:  I live in Cedar Hill with my husband, Donnie, and a lot of dogs!  We are volunteers with Border Collie Rescue Texas which saves border collies from shelters/pounds or from people who can no longer care for them.  We foster them, have any vetwork done, do some basic training and find new, appropriate homes for them.  I also enjoy training dogs and showing them in obedience trials and flyball tournaments.  I also LOVE to read!  I've read all of the Harry Potter books, Lord of Rings trilogy, lots of mysteries and classic novels.  Of course, I also enjoy music of all kinds!  I also love to go walking, usually with one or two of the dogs, traversing the neighborhood, Cedar Mountain Preserve or other fun places.

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