Spring Bulletin No. 234 - January 2009 - Iowa High School Music ...

NEWLY-ELECTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Mike Teigland is superintendent of the Indianola Community School District. He graduated
from Garner-Hayfield High School and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees
from Iowa State University. He then started his career in education as an elementary teacher
and coach for the Collins-Maxwell and South Hamilton Community School Districts. Dr.
Teigland began his administrative career as an elementary/middle school principal in
Earlham. Mike was then a shared superintendent for the Dunlap and Dow-City Arion School
Districts and has also served as superintendent in the Sheldon and Clear Lake School
Districts before coming to Indianola in 2004. Mike is a member of Rotary and serves on the
Indianola Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He and his wife Kathy attend Lutheran
Church of Hope in West Des Moines where Mike is a member of the church choir. They have
four grown children. Mr. Teigland’s term will expire in 2013.
Brian Ney graduated from West Waterloo HS in 1970 and was active in instrumental music.
Following graduation from UNI in 1974, he started teaching science at LuVerne HS (now part
of Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne). In 1980, he moved to North Kossuth HS (now part of North
Sentral Kossuth) and taught science and computer technology there. In 1993, he became HS
Principal/Activities Director at North Kossuth, and he became superintendent there in 2003.
In 2005, he became superintendent at Howard-Winneshiek Community Schools and remains
in that position. Brian’s interests include classic and high performance cars, NASCAR
(actually any type of vehicle racing), and watching students excel in academic and extracurricular
activities. Mr. Ney’s term will expire in 2010.
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DISTRICT ADVISORY GROUP REPRESENTATIVES
Northwest: Tom Gerking, Sloan
North Central: Daryl Sherman, Lake Mills
Northeast: James Fritz, Decorah
Southwest: Teresa Nook, Villisca
South Central: Sharon Day, Garden Grove
Southeast: Robert Youngquist, Washington
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Music Training Can Help Underachieving Students
Excel
In eight first-grade classes in Rhode Island public schools, seven months of
music and visual arts training helped lower-scoring students catch up with their
peers in reading and surpass them in math by 22 percent. The following year, the
arts students further widened this margin. [M. F. Gardiner, A. Fox, F. Knowles,
and D. Jeffrey, “Learning Improved by Arts Training,” Nature 381, 284 (May 23,
1996)]
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