“A Survival Guide to Your First Year of Teaching” offers practical tools and encouragement for navigating the real-life challenges of a music educator’s first year, coming from a recent first year teacher. It’s focused on the things you probably didn’t cover in your methods class, like purchase orders, travel packets, fundraising logistics, and other "wish I'd known that" moments.
Bio - Bailey Pearce is currently the choir and piano teacher at Dobson High School, located in Mesa, Arizona. She recently survived - ahem - completed her first year of teaching. She holds an Associate of Arts with a Choral Emphasis from Eastern Arizona College and a Bachelor of Arts in Instrumental Education from Ottawa University. She is an Arizona native, and resides in Mesa with her husband Stephen. Outside of school, they both enjoy hiking, camping, or finding any other excuse to escape the desert heat.