Standard #3: Learning Environments
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I am blessed to have had the opportunity to work in many profoundly different academic environments throughout my time as an educator. From individual, hybrid-platform music lessons to public, private, religious and secular in-school settings teaching band, orchestra, and theatre, I have experience at many levels of the learning process across a myriad of settings and populations.
Bishop McNamara High School - Forestville, MD
As my placement for my student teaching internship, Bishop McNamara High School has been a font of education and wisdom for me. Bishop McNamara is a private Catholic school, where I have worked full-time in the band and orchestra programs.
As part of my work at McNamara, I have created a virtual platform for students in the band program to navigate online resources, download sheet music and other important classroom documents, and access any other class-related resources they need. Linked here is a copy of this resource, with personally-identifying information removed.
Gonzaga College High School - Washington DC
At Gonzaga College High School, I have had the privilege of serving as the lead musical director for the Gonzaga Dramatic Association, an organization which draws talent from high school programs all over the Washington Metropolitan Area such as Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Georgetown Visitation School, and many more. With the GDA, I have done extracurricular musical work for several productions, teaching singing to students with no experience and professional theatre experience alike, and directing bands composed of students, community members, and professional musicians. This creates an incredibly unique and dynamic learning environment which prepares theatre students for the realities of participating in theatre at a college and professional level, something I am deeply passionate about. Gonzaga is unique in that it allows me to teach in multiple subject areas at once - choral, instrumental, and theatre often at the same time.
Leadership team of the Gonzaga Dramatic Association (above)
Pit Orchestra from the GDA's 2024 production of Mary Poppins, featuring students, community musicians, and professionals. (below)
Leadership team of the DCI theatre program (above)
DC International School - Washington, DC
The District of Columbia International School brought me on to their team of musical theatre teachers (pictured left) as the first purely-music teacher the school has ever had. Since I began with them, they have founded a school-day music program and as such I have gotten to witness the dynamic growth of their arts programs through the musical productions we have done together. As a public charter school, DCI has a profoundly different environment from other schools I've worked at, one more similar to the one I grew up in attending Seattle Public Schools.
DCI students at an end-of-show ceremony
My conducting chair for DCI's production of "Mamma Mia!"
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