Dr. Artie Almeida is the music specialist at Bear Lake Elementary school in Orlando, Florida area. Her dynamic performing groups have performed at the Southern Division MENC conference, national AOSA conference and on the NBC Today Show.

Artie was chosen as Florida Music Educator of the Year, and was also selected as an International Educator, 2004 by the Cambridge, England Biographical Society. She is included in Who’s Who in American Education as well as the publication Great Minds of the 21st Century. Artie has been a Teacher of the Year at the school level six times.

In addition to her public school teaching duties, Artie teaches elementary music classes at the University of Central Florida, early childhood music classes at Seminole Community College, is a private saxophone instructor and performer, and performs on historical winds with the renaissance group Ars Antiqua. She is the author of numerous resources for the general music classroom teacher and has presented clinics and workshops in most parts of the United States and the Republic of China.

Artie received a B.A. and M. Ed. In Music Education from the University of Central Florida and later earned her Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the same institution.

You can visit her site at www.artiealmeida.com.