I began teaching my first piano student at the age of 15, for just a few dollars a week. I lived in a small, not-so-artsy community, so when word got out that there was a piano teacher in the area who wasn't 80, parents started calling, and before I knew it I had a decent-sized studio that

“Dogface! Dogface! Dogface!” I can still hear those chants sometimes in my head. I was in sixth grade. I rode the bus home. The bus is always where the bullying was the worst. They called me dogace. They called me ugly. They called me fat. They organized a whole day where they ignored me. I

I can't do my job without being who I am. Who you are is in everything you do. I am so many things: I am a teacher, I am bilingual, I am married, I am married to a woman, I am a lesbian.“I am a lesbian” is the part that sticks out the most. It’s there facing my students head on, and therefore

Finding a teaching job, especially in the early 2000s, was very difficult. I did get a few interviews, but with only 2 years of experience under my belt, I was always passed over in favor of other applicants with lots more than that. Finally, I was hired at a private, all-girls Catholic ...Continue

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