Staff Development Sessions (Summer In-Service Workshops & Quarterly Staff Development Day- Hempstead Public Schools – "Team Teaching across the Curriculum".Staff Development Sessions (Summer In-Service Workshops – Hempstead Public Schools – "The Open Classroom: Readiness and Preparation".Solo and Group Vocal Development, Secondary Curriculum Development, Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Development, Supervision and Mentoring of Student Teachers, In-Service Staff Training, Vocal and Piano Adjudication In more recent years she devotes considerable time supervising and mentoring prospective music teachers in both weekly seminar meetings and field work experiences.
Aside from the various music methods courses she has taught, she was most honored to have served the Music Department as Interim Director of Music Education during the semester the director was on sabbatical leave. Retirement was not to her liking and she joined the Adjunct Music Faculty at LIU Post in 2002, where she currently remains. Under her direction many extra enrichment activities were brought to the two district's student population as well as selected students received extra cultural experiences at a BOCES site. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in both the public school districts she served, she also coordinated the BOCES Cultural Arts Program. There she created the district's annual "Music and Art Awards Celebration" with the sole purpose to recognize and honor students in the district having exemplary skills in music and the visual arts. In 1990 she left Hempstead and accepted the position of Director of Music and Fine Arts in Amityville Public School District where she remained for eleven years until her retirement in 2001. During the district's emergency in 1988 involving the illness of the then superintendent, Gwen was assigned to serve as the Acting Superintendent for Secondary Curriculum and Instruction to which she left her music directorship for a year. Under her leadership she created the district's annual "Music in Our Schools" celebration where vocal and instrumental music groups representing the ten district schools came together in a public forum for an afternoon of music. She became the District Director of Music, Art, and Cultural Arts. It was in 1985 she honored the call to leave the classroom altogether to devote her talent and skills in supervision and administration. Years later she moved to Hempstead High School as the Hempstead High School Choir Director teaching Vocal Music, Piano and Music Theory. Gray Schultz Middle School where she also got her first experience in an administrative supervisory position as a "Team Leader" with direct responsibility to students and teachers who were introduced and adjusting to the new "Open Classroom" concept.
Gwen began to make her mark in this district and later moved through different phases teaching music and coordinating the annual drama production at Alverta B. Moving to New York in 1967, she secured a teaching position in Hempstead Public Schools.
Festival Competition was a huge responsibility in high schools in the state of Florida in those early years and as a result of extensive preparation her vocal music groups successfully garnered numerous awards and recognition on an annual basis. In her six years there she taught Vocal Music, Music Theory, General Music and Classroom Piano. She began her career in the public school system in Sarasota, Florida at Booker Jr/Sr High School with responsibility teaching music to students in grades 7-12. School Administration and School District Administration, LIU in Gainesville, Florida, Gwen completed her undergraduate studies in 1961 at Bethune- Cookman College (now university status) located in Daytona Beach, Florida and known as one of the premier HBCU's (Historical Black Colleges and Universities). Music, Concentration in Piano and Voice, Bethune-Cookman College M.A. Adjunct Professor of Music Education University Supervisor for Music Education student teacher candidates, Department of Musicī.A.
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