This solution-oriented session will focus on combating teacher burnout by empowering new teachers to build the soft skills of communication and boundary-setting that will help them foster a livable work environment. Emerging teachers will come away with concrete tools that help them avoid power struggles in the classroom, foster a culture of accepting feedback and redirection, and build positive relationships with their students, administrators, and parents.
Katherine Rosenfeld is a music educator, voice teacher, clinician, and professional soprano teaching and performing throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area and across the state of Arizona. Katherine graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in choral music education. She grew up singing in Arizona and is an alumnus of the Phoenix Children’s Chorus and Horizon High School in Scottsdale. She currently teaches 5th through 12th grade choir at Arizona School for the Arts. She loves the musicality high school students can achieve, but her favorite grade to teach is 6th. Katherine has taught in Mesa Public Schools and ran a private voice studio in North Phoenix for students junior high through adulthood. She has performed and recorded with many Arizona-based ensembles including the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Canto Vivo Chorale, the Sedona Academy of Chamber singers, the Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale. When she’s not singing, Katherine loves to cook and practice yoga.