Welcome!

I am Michele Steiner, one of two music teachers for BGISD elementary schools and I have been with BGISD since 2001. The best part of my job is that I have SO many little friends! We sing, dance, laugh and play games every week. I am a member of the Kentucky Music Educators Association and the Kentucky Educators Association.

My instructional approach is influenced by the idea of "tuneful, beatful, artful" by John Feierabend and the counting method of Gordon/Froseth . My classroom management system is modeled after the Nurtured Heart approach by Howard Glasser. Our curriculum comes from Quaver Music, a multimedia company based in Nashville. New in 2019 is the inclusion of bucket drumming with Sammy from bucketdrumming.net.

Music class is about learning the basic skill of musicianship - singing, keeping the beat, and responding appropriately to music. We will study the music of various cultures through performance and dance.