Hi! I'm Sarah, a 13th year music teacher who helps other teachers inspire lifelong musicianship with resources, activities, and lessons that switch things up. Doing things by the book works for some people, but me? It's writing my own book that's worked best.

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I believe in a process-oriented approach to music education that involves students at all levels of music-making, from planning to creating to directing to performing. I'm also a strong advocate for meaningful, diverse, and joyful musical experiences for all children.

• Featured guest on the podcast HERstory, hosted by Casidy Reed, in a conversation about equity in music education today (summer 2020)
• Postgraduate compositional premiere – Innocente ma Curioso performed by the Fort Dodge Symphony Orchestra, Iowa, dir. Joshua Barlage (December 2019)
• Alumni Honoree at school district's annual spring concert
• Featured New England composer for the 2015 Women Composers Festival of Hartford
• Graduated magna cum laude with an honors thesis in composition and theory/analysis
• Selected for private composition coaching session with composer Kaija Saariaho
• 2 year Music Department prize recipient – Mount Holyoke College
• 3 year honoree at state music educators association’s Student Composition Festival

Teaching Certifications:
Music, PK-12 – Alternate Route to Certification, Hartford, CT

Master of Music, Composition – University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
• Completed two-year teaching assistantship in Music Education

Bachelor of Arts, Music, magna cum laude – Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
• Concentrations: Composition, Theory, Voice
• Minor: Mathematics

Hi! I'm Sarah, a 13th year music teacher who helps other teachers inspire lifelong musicianship by switching things up. I found my strengths doing things not quite by the book. I now help other music teachers write their own (metaphorical) books with joyful lessons and activities that meet kids where they are, nothing fancy required.