Spring Bulletin No. 234 - January 2009 - Iowa High School Music ...
Spring Bulletin No. 234 - January 2009 - Iowa High School Music ...
Spring Bulletin No. 234 - January 2009 - Iowa High School Music ...
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NEWLY-ELECTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS<br />
Mike Teigland is superintendent of the Indianola Community <strong>School</strong> District. He graduated<br />
from Garner-Hayfield <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees<br />
from <strong>Iowa</strong> State University. He then started his career in education as an elementary teacher<br />
and coach for the Collins-Maxwell and South Hamilton Community <strong>School</strong> Districts. Dr.<br />
Teigland began his administrative career as an elementary/middle school principal in<br />
Earlham. Mike was then a shared superintendent for the Dunlap and Dow-City Arion <strong>School</strong><br />
Districts and has also served as superintendent in the Sheldon and Clear Lake <strong>School</strong><br />
Districts before coming to Indianola in 2004. Mike is a member of Rotary and serves on the<br />
Indianola Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He and his wife Kathy attend Lutheran<br />
Church of Hope in West Des Moines where Mike is a member of the church choir. They have<br />
four grown children. Mr. Teigland’s term will expire in 2013.<br />
Brian Ney graduated from West Waterloo HS in 1970 and was active in instrumental music.<br />
Following graduation from UNI in 1974, he started teaching science at LuVerne HS (now part<br />
of Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne). In 1980, he moved to <strong>No</strong>rth Kossuth HS (now part of <strong>No</strong>rth<br />
Sentral Kossuth) and taught science and computer technology there. In 1993, he became HS<br />
Principal/Activities Director at <strong>No</strong>rth Kossuth, and he became superintendent there in 2003.<br />
In 2005, he became superintendent at Howard-Winneshiek Community <strong>School</strong>s and remains<br />
in that position. Brian’s interests include classic and high performance cars, NASCAR<br />
(actually any type of vehicle racing), and watching students excel in academic and extracurricular<br />
activities. Mr. Ney’s term will expire in 2010.<br />
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DISTRICT ADVISORY GROUP REPRESENTATIVES<br />
<strong>No</strong>rthwest: Tom Gerking, Sloan<br />
<strong>No</strong>rth Central: Daryl Sherman, Lake Mills<br />
<strong>No</strong>rtheast: James Fritz, Decorah<br />
Southwest: Teresa <strong>No</strong>ok, Villisca<br />
South Central: Sharon Day, Garden Grove<br />
Southeast: Robert Youngquist, Washington<br />
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<strong>Music</strong> Training Can Help Underachieving Students<br />
Excel<br />
In eight first-grade classes in Rhode Island public schools, seven months of<br />
music and visual arts training helped lower-scoring students catch up with their<br />
peers in reading and surpass them in math by 22 percent. The following year, the<br />
arts students further widened this margin. [M. F. Gardiner, A. Fox, F. Knowles,<br />
and D. Jeffrey, “Learning Improved by Arts Training,” Nature 381, 284 (May 23,<br />
1996)]<br />
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