Hammond School is a rigorous independent school of approx. 1000 with an emphasis on liberal arts and a global education. Responsibilities include:

• Teaching general music to  Pre-Kindergarten through Fourth Grade using the school’s objectives, Kodály techniques, the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME) standards, and music technology to develop and author the curriculum.
• Planning, rehearsing, conducting, and producing the music for all Grade Level programs, the Grandparents’ Day Concert, the December Holiday Concert, the Country of Study Opening Ceremony, weekly Third and Fourth Grade Chorus, Talent day events, and Auditions.
• Accompanying or creating accompaniment for Lower School Programs, Student Recitals, Rehearsals, and Performances throughout the year.

• Providing iPad and SMARTBoard support for students and teaching faculty.
• Organizing and conducting professional development events to introduce, train and challenge the teaching faculty to utilize available technology to transform student learning.
• Assisting in deployment and year-round maintenance of 1:1 iPads.
• Training teachers in the effective use of SMARTBoard technology to create interactive learning.
• Designing and creating SMARTNotebook files to support interactive learning throughout the school.
• Researching, designing, and coaching 21st century learning in individual classrooms.
• Designing and creating supportive iPad lessons/ projects/ activities for math, word sorts, spelling, US History, geography, writing, science, art, and library skills.
• Assisting in the development of project-based STEAM units across the curriculum.
• Collaborating with teachers to acclimate parents to the use of technology in our school.

• Serving on the Technology Committee for the entire school (2008 – present)
• Creating daily Encore Schedules for Grades PreK – through Four (2003 – present)
• Providing sound / technical support for student assemblies and meetings.
• Served as a faculty representative on the Board of Trustees (2015-2016)
• Served on the  Lower School Head search committee (2013-2015)

• Assisting music director in all musical responsibilities for mega church of 4000+ members
• Serving as accompanist for all services and rehearsals each week
• Developing engaging curriculum, recruiting, training, and managing 60+ volunteer teachers for twelve children’s choirs each week
• Designing and orchestrating an innovative Musical Arts Camp for 450 students each summer (1993 – 2003). Offering thirty five different interest classes  including the STAGE BAND where students create accompaniments using electronic instruments,  and the Sound Team where students learn how to set up and run the sound system for the camp musical production.
• Authoring (Van Ness Pub.) two volumes of creative lesson plans for Children’s Choirs
• Directing and premiering new children’s choir musicals for Kathie Hill Music each year.
• Planning and hosting the “Creative Children’s Choir Coordinator’s Conference,” a week-long training / think-tank for 85 musicians from the largest churches in the United States.

• Teaching private and group piano lessons to students of all ages and abilities.
• Developing and leading bi-monthly group enrichment classes including composer studies, composition contests, and performance master classes
• Developing interactive theory games and creative assignments utilizing the newly installed music computer lab.
• Planning and teaching group piano lessons to non-majors utilizing music technology in the keyboard lab.
• Conducting workshops sharing my personal successes using computers in music instruction with local and state level organizations in SC.
• Coordinating master classes and auditions for National Guild, Federation of Music Clubs, South Carolina Music Teachers Association, and Columbia Music Teachers Association.
• Serving as adjudicator for local, state, and regional piano auditions year round, including summer travel as a National Piano Guild Adjudicator.

• Coordinating private and group lessons for all voice and piano students enrolled in the Music Preparatory School of  Coker College
• Planning, coordinating, and teaching weekly group enrichment classes to supplement private piano instruction
• Teaching Music Appreciation to Coker College Evening students.
• Accompanying recitals, concerts, and auditions for students and faculty.
• Founded and planned a monthly music teachers’ brunch designed to share and promote creative ideas for teachers in a tri-county area.