Building a music program anywhere is undoubtedly a challenging endeavor. Add the complications that can come with teaching in a Title I school, and your adventure can become monumental. In this clinic, you will learn about some key research based concepts that help to promote success of music students and some experience based methods and strategies from a Bay Area Middle School Instrumental Music Teacher.
Sarah Moulder
- Biographical Information
Sarah Moulder is the Director of Bands at Central Middle School
and Arroyo Upper Elementary School in San Carlos, California. Prior to her
experience in San Carlos, Ms. Moulder has spent the last decade striving to
provide quality musical experiences to students in Title I Schools in Michigan,
Idaho, and California. Originally from Michigan, she holds a Bachelor's Degree
in Music Education from Northern Michigan University, and a Master's Degree in
Wind Band Conducting from the American Band College. An active freelance
musician, Ms. Moulder enjoys playing regularly throughout California's
culturally rich Bay Area in pit orchestras, big bands, and the San Francisco
Wind Symphony. Ms. Moulder created a band and orchestra program from the ground
up in East Palo Alto, one of the most economically disadvantaged communities in
the state of California. While her program started with merely one band
ensemble at one school, it has grown to include three separate leveled bands
and two orchestras at two schools. Ms. Moulder provides free and equal access
to all students who wish to participate.