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Alan’s Educational Credits Alan’s teaching career began in Baltimore, Maryland and has included several elementary to college positions. He was an adjunct jazz band instructor at Essex Community College and an exploratory music teacher in an inner-city junior high school. During this time, Alan also began writing special arrangements for the Essex Community College Jazz Band. In Las Vegas with the Clark County School District, Alan continued his teaching career. He began as an elementary band teacher. However, when the county decided to end all elementary band programs, Alan became the director of jazz bands and midi-lab instructor for the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies and Performing Arts High School. In the ensuing years, his Academy jazz bands consistently placed within the top three best bands at the Reno International Jazz Festivals and the NAU Jazz Festivals. His Academy combos often won the events. Several of his midi-lab students have won notable awards for their contemporary computer compositions. However, after 51 holiday concerts one year at the Academy, Alan needed change. He therefore took the next year off from teaching and was fortunate enough to play for the Las Vegas Broadway show production of “Chicago”. It was an eventful year. The year off from teaching allowed Alan to enroll in graduate (MIS - Management Information Systems) computer classes at the Community College of Southern Nevada and at UNLV. It paved the way for Alan to return to teaching but this time as a computer Literacy and Programming teacher at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas. Alan still teaches computer for the Clark County School District. He is currently on staff at Cannon Junior High School where he is one of the sixth-grade Computer Literacy teachers. To contact Alan, please E-mail him at elitejazz@aol.com
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