Tiffany Unarce Barry
Tiffany Unarce Barry is a performer, educator, presenter, and published author in Northern California. A second-generation Filipino-American, Tiffany has sung and played violin in ensembles all her life. She earned her BA in Vocal Performance at SJSU in 2001 and received a Single-Subject Teaching Credential in 2005. In 2008, she became Orff-certified through the San Francisco International Orff Course, and in 2017, she earned her MA in Music Education at SJSU with a focus on providing more Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education to music teachers in the Bay Area.
Tiffany taught general music and a variety of instrumental and choral ensembles for 14 years at Cambrian School District in San Jose, CA, where she was voted “Teacher of the Year ” in both 2010 and 2017 for her expertise in arts
integrations, STEAM education, and Project-Based Learning. She also received CMEA Bay Section’s Outstanding Classroom/General Music Educator Award for 2017-2018. Tiffany has held board positions for Resounding Achord Productions, Northern California’s American Orff Schulwerk Association Chapter, CMEA Bay Section, and the American Orff Schulwerk Association’s Board Restructuring Ad-Hoc Committee. She is currently serving on the board of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Museum in Stockton, CA. Over the last ten years, Tiffany has published articles in the San José Mercury News, AOSA’s The Orff Echo & Reverberations, Buck Institute for Education’s PBL Blog, Teaching with Orff, and NAfME’s Teaching Music Magazine. In February 2021, she published her first music education resource book, Songs of the Sun: Filipino Folk Songs for the Musical Classroom. Tiffany has presented Orff sessions and workshops nationally and is a Basic Orff Teacher Educator for Level 1. She is an adjunct lecturer at SJSU and is also lead female vocalist for the dance orchestra and swing band, Symphonia Phonotone
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The Essential Work of the Arts: A Productive Response for Teachers
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Musicast Episode 5: Young Band Directors Panel- Finding and Remembering Your “Why”
\A panel of high school band directors who have been teaching for 6 years or less come together to discuss the good, the bad, and the inspirational parts of being a band director. The discussion includes topics about leadership, COVID era teaching, and finding and remembering why they became music teachers. This episode will feed your soul! [...]
The Essential Work of the Arts
As a young educator, I was always tasked with the [...]
Musicast Episode 4: Kirsten C. Kunkle – Passionate Pioneering
Soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle has been hailed as an outstanding singing actress with a voice that has been described as beautiful, ethereal, powerful, fiery, and bewitching. he attended Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg for her undergraduate studies, majoring in voice performance with minors in Italian and German. Her graduate degrees are in voice performance from the University of Michigan. A voting member of the Muscogee Nation, Dr. Kunkle commissioned and premiered sixteen original compositions, including one of her own, based upon the poetry of her ancestor and highly-acclaimed poet of the Native American Muscogee Nation, Alex Posey. [...]
Research to Practice: Using Data for More than Just Grades
I used to think that research was complicated and couldn’t help me in my classroom. I used to see the Music Educators Journal arrive in my mailbox, flip through, sigh, think to myself – “If I only had time….,” and then add the issue to a growing pile on my dining room table. [...]
Musicast Episode 3: Lucky Chops – Streets & Stage: Funkifying Music Education
Lucky Chops has been unleashing high-energy brassy funk on the world since forming in NYC in 2006. The intensity of the band’s energy is fueled by their desire to share the healing and inspirational power of music with others. That power has resonated with audiences around the globe, giving the band hundreds of millions of views on their online videos and leading to live performances in more than twenty five countries. Lucky Chops maintains a busy schedule touring across several continents. [...]