Everything Band Podcast

Amy Knopps is the Associate Director of Bands and the Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Missouri, Columbia. In this episode, Amy shares her story of growing up in the Kansas City area and how she found her way to her dream job as the director of the Marching Mizzou. Topics: Amy’s background growing up in Lee’s Summit through her college experience as a student at the University of Missouri. Amy’s first job, the connections that made her first teaching job in Kansas City so special, and her first college teaching job at Eastern Michigan University. Some lessons that we can apply to our own teaching from her story. The Marching Mizzou, leadership, community, and the advantages of being the athletic band director at the flagship university of her native state. The challenges of being a female band athletic band director and words of encouragement for young female band directors. Links: Amy Knopps The Marching Mizzou Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry Biography: Amy M. Knopps is the Associat