Professional Information

This is my 29th year teaching choral music at Southside and my 35th year teaching altogether. I was honored to be selected as the Teacher of the Year for Southside for the 1998-99 and  2018-19 school year.  My Music Education degree is from Wingate University and my Master’s degree is in Elementary Education from Francis Marion University.  I was Nationally Board certified in Adolescent to Young Adulthood Music first in 2005 and again in 2015. I serve as a FAME teacher in F1S. As a member of SC Music Educators Association, I served on the State Middle School Choral Committee for 20 years. I am also a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and have students make the ACDA Honor Choir (Middle School All-State Chorus) each year.  At Southside, I currently teach five chorus classes a day using an A/B day schedule.  These classes include yearlong auditioned and semester non-auditioned classes. I teach students in 7th and 8th grade representing every team in both grades. I am passionate about teaching students to become more musically literate through choral music education.