About WendyWendy Barden recently retired from Osseo Area Schools in Minnesota where she was a music educator since 1977.
For the first fifteen years of her career, Wendy taught band and general music in grades 7-9. During that time she was named a Yamaha National Mentor Teacher, NAfME Nationally Certified Music Educator, and 1992 Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) Band Educator of the Year. In 1992, Wendy moved into the role of district music coordinator. Still active in the classroom, her teaching experience broadened to include third grade classroom music, elementary band and orchestra, high school band and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Music. She has been recognized as a 2013 Yale Distinguished Music Educator, and was very honored to join the MMEA Hall of Fame in February 2014. |
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