Tanya LeJeune lives in Denver, Colorado, USA and is in her 26th year of music education. She has taught K to 8th grade general music in Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado and is a Kodaly instructor of pedagogy and folk song analysis at the Colorado Kodaly Institute at Colorado State University. Tanya serves on the Elementary Music Curriculum Advisory Committee and is the music teacher mentor for Jefferson County Public Schools.
For what are you most grateful? (0:32)
This question is where you get to give some little ‘Nuggets of Fabulous’ to all of the listeners. What are 3 of your all time favourite resources, activities, songs or games? (8:01)
At a time when Music Educators seem to have to fight even harder for the existence of their profession, what advice would you give us around advocacy? (21:16)
Get on your soap box! To finish this interview, you get to tell the world something that is the most important thing for you to say. Ready, set, GO… (30:30)
Links Mentioned in the Episode:Click HERE to listen to the Music Teacher Coffee Talk Podcast
Where to find me:Ep 5: Chat with Tonya LeJeune Part 2: this mp3 audio file was automatically transcribed by Sonix with the best speech-to-text algorithms. This transcript may contain errors.
Debbie: Here is the Crescendo Music Education Podcast Episode 5. In this episode you'll hear the second half of the chat that I had with Tanya LeJeune. We cover things like gratitude, we hear some of her nuggets of fabulous and so much more. Enjoy the second half of my chat with Tanya LeJeune.
Debbie: What are you most grateful?
Tanya: I love that I get to teach music. Debbie, don't you ever have those moments where you look around, kids are singing, moving, reading, or notating and you go, 'This is my job'.
Debbie: Yeah, I get to do this, dude!
