Who I am as a teacher:

• Provide a structured framework that promotes student collaboration, creativity, artistry, and mindful originality
• Develop curious “life-long learners,” and promote the long-term development and success of each individual student
• Present students with challenging, entertaining, confidence-building, memorable, and relevant performing arts/musical curriculum and high-quality instructional resources - expose students to world-wide performing arts and musical traditions and performances spanning the globe
• Promote powerful family and community engagement to fully/completely support students and enhance their total academic-creative-experience
• Help students to achieve artistic and academic goals, explore potential career pathways, and  develop students into responsible, caring citizens of the world
• Utilize a whole child [student centered] approach - in which each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged
• Imbue each/every class with passion, purpose, perspective, and a sense of humor