About jammie.phillips

Jammie N. Phillips has been a music educator for over 20 years. She currently serves as the Director of Bands at McKee Middle School in Montgomery, Alabama. Prior to joining Alabama, she taught in the Atlanta metro area in Georgia for several years. During her tenure there, her bands were consecutively rated superior for several years. Phillips has received numerous awards for her contributions to music education, including the 2022 Golden Anniversary Award from the National Flute Association, the 2019 40 under 40 recognition from Bethune-Cookman University, and the 2017 Teacher of the Year award from Eddie White Middle School. Additionally, she has been named the 2023-2024 District Teacher of the Year for Montgomery Public Schools, Teacher of the Month for River Region Magazine, and the 2024 Alabama Arts Alliance Outstanding Intermediate Arts Educator. Phillips has built a career delivering consecutive Superior & Excellent ratings for her band programs in Georgia and now Alabama. She is a National Teacher Leader for the National Association for Music Education Connected Arts Grant Project. Phillips continues to perform as the Piccoloist/3rd Flute for the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Bethune-Cookman University and a Master of Science and Education Specialist in Education and Administrator Leadership from Walden University. Phillips is passionate about making a difference for band directors who graduated from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as they often face different challenges. She was inspired to pursue a career in music education as early as 10th grade when she noticed that all her band directors were either men or white women. She wanted to become one of the few successful black women in the profession to encourage more black girls to become successful band directors and musicians. Phillips is a mother of three teenagers, and she has a cat and a dog.