I didn't have a lot of elementary music experience.
So my highlights and music were high school, college.
Therefore I wanted to give,
give that same gift to others in that same area.
So I went right into high school music, did some junior high music of there too.
I had been a band member for all of my
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I have been in band for my entire high school.
Junior high, high school life.
So I really didn't have a lot of experience
that it took to get into high school choir.
I had done some singing of my own in college, but the training wasn't there.
So I struggled a lot and had to do a lot of learning in that aspect
on how to do things musically, to make things work.
And I wasn't really good vocally. I was great on the piano.
Long story short, I eventually found,
and it wasn't by choice on my end, it was because I was moved to a new area.
There wasn't a high school job open. There was an elementary job open.
I took that job. And all of a sudden, had I not been forced in that position,
I would have never realized that my personality
and the way I liked to teach and the way I like to relate to kids,
with, it closely, more and more closely fit the elementary area than it did the high school.
I also found that I had a lot more success.
And then after I started exploring exactly what elementary does and how it plays
a role in the development of the kid, I understood that my,
my importance in teaching was not to be where the kids end up,
but to be the person that helps them start out.
And, I think that when I finally realized that,
that's when I just got excited about elementary music and when I wanted to continue with that.
And I want to make other teachers that graduate,
realize, I know it looks like elementary music,
but do you see what you can do for these kids?
You're laying a foundation that they build on.
And if you don't do a good job here,
they're going to have that much less success later on,
it's going to be and harder for them.
So that has definitely become my focus. And I'm glad.