Music Educator Spotlight - Dr. Jeannine Mongeon

For today's #ThankfulThursday, we are showing our appreciation to Dr. Jeannine Mongeon for being a teacher, conductor, and mentor to young students in our community. Dr. Mongeon grew up quite musically involved, playing the violin, viola, and piano. As a young student, she was involved in the Young Peoples' Philharmonic of Bethlehem, PA, for eight years.

While in her first semester of college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Mongeon was asked by a family to help their daughter learn the violin. From there she fell in love with teaching and changed her major to Music Education. As a result, she went on to get a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania; a Masters from University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music; and a Ph.D. from the University of Miami all in Music Education.

After graduating college, Dr. Mongeon went on to start a string program for first through twelfth graders from scratch at a private school in Miramar, FL. Her career as a music teacher has taken her to all over the United States and to Canada. In 2011, she started working at L'ecole des Ursulines, in Canada, teaching violin and music theory in French.

She is now a music teacher at Montverde Academy where she teaches Music Appreciation, Chamber Music, and Sight-Singing courses for second through twelfth grade. In addition to teaching at Montverde Academy, she also teaches private string lessons for violin, viola, and orchestras. When asked why she thinks music education is important she said, "Music is basic to being human. Music Education contributes to the general growth and development of humans. There is nothing else like it".