Carol Broos has recently accepted a consulting job at the Golden Apple Foundation and will be a full-time employee August 2012. She retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois. Her passion is to move education into the digital age and infuse music and technology together. Awarded 2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher, 2008 Google Teacher Academy, 2008 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year (Mary Hoffman), 2008 “Golden Apple” winner, and 2009 Apple Distinguished Educator. Her blog http://www.beatechie.com/ is one of the top ME (Music Education) bloggers on http://musicpln.org She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME.