People do best what they love best. Throughout my career, I have poured into the hearts of children, an appreciation and love for music. Whether as an entrepreneur or professional educator, I have been extremely successful in communicating technical and historical knowledge to students in an interesting, stimulating, and effective manner.
As C.E.O/Founder of Music Therapeutics, I enjoy serving 40 children (10 of whom are special need) as I deliver individual piano, voice and brass instrument lessons. With an enthusiastic teaching style and sound pedagogical approach, I have consistently raised the musical performance standards of my students within a 4 to 6 week period. Despite the challenges of working with special needs students, the joy cannot be overstated. I am proud to share that I have located and secured county/state funding pay for services for special needs and developed special needs programs that were incorporated into physical, occupational, psychiatric, psychological and medical therapies.
Working as an entrepreneur has afforded me the opportunity to excel in a variety of administrative projects including advertising, fees and tuition, and policies/procedures as well as creating and distributing pricing and policy packets. I have evaluated student needs, selected both conventional and progressive instructional resources while customizing lesson plans to correspond with individual learning styles. In order to achieve objectives, I combine innovative teaching methods and philosophies such as the Tomatis method (electronically modified music to achieve non-musical goals) and the Kodaly philosophy (believes every person has right to high level of music education early in life and everyone has ability to sing, dance or play music).
Aside from my entrepreneurial success, I have as also served as General Music Teacher and Choir Director for Lancaster City Schools. Within two schools, I guided elementary and junior high school students through courses covering general music, music theory, music history, and music reading skills. During this time I was the first teacher in the district to mainstream learning and physically disabled children into music classroom.
In both public schools and the private sector I have enjoyed collaborating with parents, teachers, and health care providers to ensure optimized lesson plan adjustments. As you know, school districts are increasingly growing with populations from other nations most of whom are learning English as a second language. As I have always embraced diversity, I will embrace the opportunity to welcome those unfamiliar with their new home.