Professional Information

    This is my 27th year teaching choral music at Southside and my 33nd year teaching altogether. I was honored to be selected as the Teacher of the Year for Southside for the 2018-19 school year.  My Music Education degree is from Wingate University and I have a Master’s degree 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 DOME teacher in FSD1 and I am on the State Middle School Choral Committee for SC Music Educators Association. I am a member of the American Choral Directors Association and have students make ACDA Honor Choir each year.  At Southside, I currently teach five chorus classes a day.  These classes include auditioned and non-auditioned classes. I teach students in 7th and 8th grade representing every team in both grades including mainstreamed students. This allows me to teach a diverse population of our school through choral music education.