Teaching School With A Beat is a story starting back in the 1940's to the mid-1970's it was not with a paddle, it was with a baton. It was a thrilling and exciting experience to form and develop a band at Avon Grove High School and Kennett High Schools, both located in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

It was a great challenge and demanded patience and determination. Teaching students from fourth grade through high school to develop musical skills on instruments they never thought of playing. During those early years of development, they produced some of the most un-Godly sounds you can imagine. To watch them develop musical skill and eventually play in the concert band, brass choir or Tijuana brass was most satisfying and a feeling of great accomplishment.

This is a story relating to the lighter side of teaching in a public school. Relax and enjoy my memories of 30 years of teaching.

Teaching students a new language, to read a musical score and teaching students how to play their instrument has been for me an upbeat, downbeat, and sometime my heart would skip a beat, however, over the years it's been a joyous and satisfying heart beat.. How wonderful it has been to have created a long lasting association with many of my student and in retrospect I over the years feel it's been a joyous and satisfying heart beat.



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