Jennifer Bell is the Director of Bands at Whiteaker Middle School. She is in her twenty-second year of teaching. She has spent the last five years at Whiteaker Middle School enjoying the process of starting students on instruments and watching them grow and develop into budding musicians as she did in her first 12 years of teaching at Claggett Creek Middle School. Prior to her return to middle school, she spent 7 years at McNary High School where she led the program to place in the top 5 at the OSAA State Championships for five of those years. Throughout her career several of her students placed in the OSAA State Solo Championships and the OMEA State Ensemble Championships.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Oregon in 2001 with a Bachelor of Music Education and a master’s degree in Music Education in 2006. She has been nominated for Music Educator of the Year by the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem in 2005, 2006, and 2008 and 2014. She is a member of Phi Beta Mu International Band Director Honorary Fraternity, OBDA, OMEA and NAfME. She is the Past President of the Oregon Band Directors Association and works diligently as a member of the OBDA Adjudication Committee. Her contribution to her profession consists of teaching multiple student teachers, organizing her district’s solo and ensemble competitions and All-City honor bands, five years of Transportation Manager for the All-State Honor Ensembles as well as All-State Ensemble Manager. She is a sought after middle and high school honor band conductor as well as an adjudicator for multiple area competitions. She has three children and has enjoyed having all three of her boys in her band classes.
Jennifer Bell
Band Chair
Whiteaker Middle School
Keizer, Oregon
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