I have been teaching in the Alton School District since 2006. I have taught elementary general music and choir, K-12. I am currently teaching Choir and Music Tech at AMS.

I live in Alton with my husband, Jerry, my daughter, Emi and my son, Eric. We have a beautiful smart Blue Healer/Austrailian Shephard Mix named Bella.

Last year our music classes looked very different. We met on Zoom, learned some new music, reviewed some songs we already knew and we spent some spent some time on Solfege. Solfege is a building block to creating exceptional singers - that is who I work with!

This year, 21/22, we are not starting back like nothing happened but we are going to be closer to what happens in a "normal" choir class.

We will continue to work on our music reading and choral singing eventhough we will be wearing masks.

I used the device, pictured below, last year and it made a big difference for singing and talking.

I look forward to seeing and hearing from all of you as we begin another year of "not sure what is going to happen"!