Sarah Van Waardhuizen, ABD, is currently an Instructor of Music Education and Voice at Central College, in Pella, IA. She finished her final semester of coursework for her PhD in music education at The University of Iowa in May. She is working on her dissertation involving motivation in music education. In 2011, she completed her master’s in music education and choral pedagogy from The University of Kansas. Van Waardhuizen has served the North Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association and Iowa Choral Directors Association as Repertoire and Standards chair for Show Choir. She is a sought after clinician for middle school and high school students, working privately, in the choral and show choir settings. She has also conducted numerous honor choir festivals. Van Waardhuizen has recently presented at IMEA, SunCoast Music Education Symposium in Tampa, FL, Mountain Lake Music Education Conference in Pembroke, VA and The Self-Determination Theory in Victoria, BC in June 2016. She is a member of ACDA, ICDA, NAfME, OAKE, NATS and HLAA. Van Waardhuizen is married to Shane, and has two children, Ella and Tyce.
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