I got an email from Cody on Friday about being the feature story in the Arts and Entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune “Disney’s Next Big Thing?” He is an amazing musician as well as a person with great depth. I have written about Cody before, but to see a young artist’s career take off
Mrs. Muench, a music teacher from Gilman, Illinois and I are collaborating on a composer project. The fifth graders will create composer multi-media projects and the third graders from Gilman will do voice-threads about the composer. Look at http://composerproject.wikispaces.com/ for details.
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
