2019-20 AKTS Workshops

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Tanya LeJeune lives in Denver, Colorado and is in her twenty-fourth year of teaching music.  She currently teaches K– 5th grade general music at Jefferson County Public Schools, and Kodály Level I courses at the Colorado Kodály Institute at Colorado State University. Tanya is past president of ROCKE and has served as OAKE Member at Large. She has also served on the Elementary Music Curriculum Advisory Committee for Jeffferson County Public Schools since 2000. Tanya has presented music education workshops and in-services for several school districts, universities and colleges in Colorado, as well as CMEA, AOSA Rocky Mountain Chapter, NKE, and OAKE. Tanya’s latest endeavor is the podcast Music Teacher Coffee Talk with Carrie Nicholas.

Karlena L. Leal taught General Music K-6, Band 5-6, and Orchestra 5-6 at Quail Run Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona in the Marana Unified School District, for fifteen years before starting her sixteenth year in the district and her first year at the brand new Dove Mountain CSTEM K-8 teaching General Music K-4, Chorus 6-8 and Band 5-8.  She graduated from the University of Arizona in December 2003 with a BA in Instrumental Music Education and a minor in Spanish.  At the University of Nebraska, Omaha, she instructs the Kodály Level I Pedagogy Course.  She has Certification Levels I-IV for Kodály and is a Past-President of AKTS: Arizona Kodály Teachers Society.  She also has Certification in Levels I-III plus Master Class for Orff-Schulwerk and previously taught Recorder Levels as a part of the Summer Orff Levels Courses at Arizona State University.  Currently she serves as Co-Facilitator for MUSD’s Elementary Music Professional Learning Community and serves on Dove Mountain CSTEM K-8’s PBIS: Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Committee.  She is a native of Tucson and enjoys spending time with her husband and innovative ten-and-a-half-year-old daughter.