René is a grandma who has served as a full-time nanny to grandchildren Caleb, Aurora, Margaux, and Phineas.
She is also a professor emerita of music education at the University of Cincinnati’s Col...ver másRené is a grandma who has served as a full-time nanny to grandchildren Caleb, Aurora, Margaux, and Phineas.
She is also a professor emerita of music education at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, where she worked as a music educator for over thirty years.
René is known nationally and internationally for her work in multicultural and urban music education. She is author of Music Fundamentals, Methods and Materials for the Elementary Classroom Teacher, published by Pearson, Share the Music, Spotlight on Music, and Music Studio, three K-8 basil textbook curriculum programs published by Macmillan McGraw-Hill, Songs and Rhythms of a Nation, Expressions of Freedom: An Anthology of African American Spirituals in three volumes, Walking in the Light of Freedom, also in three volumes, The Ballad of the Underground Railroad and United We Stand, published by Hal Leonard.
René received her BM and MM from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois, and her doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She possesses all levels of Orff Certification as well as Kodaly Certification from Hungary.
René has received many awards for her contributions to music education, but her most coveted awards have come from her travels throughout the United States and abroad where she has been privileged to work with both children and teachers for the betterment of music in our schools.ver menos