The 2025-2026 school year marks Julie Brown's 21st year as a band teacher in the Appleton Area School District.  In addition to teaching beginning band at McKinley Elementary School, she also teaches beginning and middle school band at Classical School.  She has also taught in the district at James Madison Middle School and Johnston, Horizons, Janet Berry, and Edison Elementary Schools.

Mrs. Brown earned her masters in music education degree from Northwestern University and also graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire with bachelor degrees in music education and music composition.  She was awarded a Kohl Educational Fellowship in 2008 and was also published in Music Educators' Journal, the national publication for National Association for Music Education (NAfME).  She has served as a member of the Wisconsin Student-Centered Learning Action Research Group and has presented at a variety of state and national conventions and conferences on the subject of student-centered learning.  Mrs. Brown has also served as the Wisconsin State Band Chair on the state Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA) Council and regularly contributed to that organization's publication, Wisconsin School Musician.  Mrs. Brown was published as a composer through Alliance Publications.  Her original work for concert band, "Always Gold" is available via the Alliance Publications website, as well as a wide variety of other online sources! 

In August of 2025, Mrs. Brown received the prestigious AASD's Mielke Secondary Educator of the Year.  In February 2020, Mrs. Brown served as guest conductor for the Northeastern Conference Middle Level Honor Band.  Prior to AASD, Mrs. Brown was in two smaller districts where she taught band to students in grades 5-12.  In her free time, she enjoys travelling and going on adventures with her family, being outdoors (hiking, swimming, golfing, and kayaking in the summer, and skiing and sledding in the winter), reading, and writing and arranging music.  Mrs. Brown lives in Appleton with her husband, Adam, their son, Sebastian (who is a junior at Tesla and plays tuba and bass at East this year), their cats, Lily and Lyra, and Sebastian's leopard gecko, Snowball.

Professional Interests Include:

Student-Centered Learning

Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance (CMP)

Music Advocacy

Arts PROPEL

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