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Artie's Bio
Dr. Artie Almeida is the music
specialist at Bear Lake Elementary school in Apopka FL, where
she teaches 1150 kindergarten through 5th grade students. Her
dynamic performing groups have performed for MENC, AOSA, and on
the NBC Today Show.
Artie was chosen as Florida Music Educator of the Year, and was
also selected as an International Educator 2006 by the Cambridge
England Biographical Society. She was Seminole County Teacher of
the Year, Runner-Up for Florida Teacher of the Year and a
Teacher of the Year at the school level 6 times.
She served seven years on the Board of Directors of the National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and was an early
childhood music consultant for Walt Disney World. She is
included in Who's Who in American Education and the publication
Great Minds of the 21st Century.
Artie is the author of Mallet Madness, Recorder Express, The
Ultimate Game and Activity Pack for Orchestra, ten Music
Proficiency Packs, as well as four music theory and assessment
games featuring the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes characters.
In addition to her public school teaching duties, Artie teaches
applied saxophone lessons and performs on historical winds with
the renaissance ensemble Ars Antiqua. For twenty-one years she
also taught elementary music classes at the University of
Central Florida and early childhood music classes at Seminole
Community College.
In her spare time Artie enjoys reading, birdwatching, and
traveling with her husband John, who is the trumpet professor at
the University of Central Florida.
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