| Linda Johnson and Charles McCampbell
Linda Johnson is a Music Educator, Consultant, Arts Integration Specialist, and Entrepreneur from Dallas. She began her career in education over 25 years ago as an elementary music teacher at Dallas ISD. She taught secondary choir for eight years before returning to elementary school, where she explored songwriting, music tech, and arts integration. In addition to her private piano studio, she took on leadership roles as the district elementary honor choir clinician and lead music teacher. Ms. Johnson left the classroom in 2019 but is still in demand as a music consultant and choir clinician in the DFW metroplex.Â
Charles McCampbell is a professional recording artist, producer, songwriter, author, and owner of Music Lovers School of Music in Dallas. For over 30 years, he’s taught private music lessons to children and adults of all ages in his studio, various schools, camps, and clinics. He’s had students succeed as all-state musicians and professional singers in the music industry. The motto at his school is ” Pursue Perfection Through Private Lessons,” where he offers lessons in guitar, bass guitar, drum set, congas, percussion instruments, voice, piano, and strings. |
Aisha Christa Atkinson –
This resource is so intentionally designed to bridge the gap between increasing diverse representation and student learning within the K-12 instructional setting. What I appreciated most about this is the level of care that has been given to make each musical selection an example of translanguaging – an essential component of language development. This makes the play more accessible to audiences, particularly in parts of the United States such as Texas. It is also really fun to see and hear the different musical genres as they connect to different countries. I hope that the educators behind this continue this project, particularly for the upcoming Native American and Asian American Heritage months.