Introducing our Founder of MHSG  ______________________________________________________________________ Introducing
our Teaching Staff at MHSG From date of hire ______________________________________________________________________ Alana Jacobs: Profile coming soon! I am a music student getting my master's degree
in flute performance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was
homeschooled all the way through high school. I also took Spanish as a minor in my undergraduate studies. Last semester I sat in on the Spanish class and really enjoyed meeting the students. I would love the opportunity to help the students further their Spanish speaking abilities. GlenScott Copper: GlenScott Copper, Has recently retired from teaching full-time at The Milwaukee High School of the Arts, where he taught for fifteen years in the English and Theater departments and then with a colleague founded the Creative Writing / Journalism Department. He has degrees in Mass Communications, Speech/Theater, and English from Wisconsin Universities and a Master of Liberal Arts degree from St. John's College-Annapolis. He studied Education Systems in Japan on a Fellowship from the Fulbright Memorial Fund. and joined the Science Under Sail program taking a group of Milwaukee high school students on the s.v. Denis Sullivan, a three masted schooner, on an expedition to the Bahamas. Lately he is in finishing stages of writing a coming-of-age novel dealing with the problems of a teen boy and girl from dissolving families in Wisconsin and Illinois during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ______________________________ Megan Thomas: Meg Thomas recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, receiving a BFA in both Art Education and Photography. She is certified to teach art to ages early childhood to adolescence (K4-12). During her college career, Meg spent a great deal of her time focusing on art history and studio arts including (but not limited to): Photography, Ceramics, Painting and Drawing, and Sculpture. Throughout her student teaching and field experiences, Meg worked with students from in grades K4 to 12. She planned and implemented the daily curriculum, in-class assignments and assessments. Meg is receptive to different learning styles and makes every effort to accommodate each student and their abilities. With her positive and enthusiastic personality, Meg is able to build rapport with her students. As early as the age of 8, she knew that photography was an important part of her life, as she visually documented the world around her. She hopes to inspire other young artists and photographers to explore and interpret the world they live in and love."  ______________________________
Gabriel Hammer is a very talented musician and teacher that has been teaching around the Midwest since 2004 and has a BA. in jazz studies, percussion performance, and with piano as his secondary instrument from Columbia college . As a musician Gabriel has played with many different groups, performing many different genres, and playing on different instruments - ranging from drums, piano, vibraphone, bass, and guitar. Gabriel has a very high success rate with his students. Several of Gabe's students have won competitions (2007 heat strokes drum off) and several have been accepted into honors bands, advanced music theory classes, and other prestigious music programs. Recently after studying Marimba music and Latin percussion with Rubin Alvarez and Giovanni Hidalgo, Gabriel developed an interest in Latin culture, studied Spanish, and traveled around Guatemala for a month learning more about the significance of music within their culture.   ______________________________ |
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