I am very excited to begin a new school year with you all. We are so lucky in education because we all have the chance to begin again, to erase anything we didn't feel proud of the year before and to build upon the great moments of the previous year. We can set goals - and we will in class - and do our best to reach those goals. For me it is an especially important year. I am beginning my 41st year of teaching! I hope to share with my classes why I have maintained such a commitment to teaching despite other opportunities in my career. I firmly believe that all of my students this year will work with me to make this unquestionably my best year ever as an arts educator!