67. Jessica Billings-White discusses her itinerant string teaching position outside of Boston, MA

Ms. Billings-White is honored to be one of four the strings
specialists in the Lexington Public Schools. She is currently the
only itinerant teacher at the elementary schools, both middle
schools and high School. Ms. Billings-White is an active
director, strings teacher and performer in the Greater Boston
area. She earned a Bachelors degree of Music in Cello Performance
from McGill University and a Master's degree of Music in Cello
Performance, Graduate Performance Diploma in String Performance,
and a Master's degree of Music in Music Education from the Boston
Conservatory at Berklee. Ms. Billings-White is a member of NAfME,
the National Association for Music Education; ASTA (the American
String Teachers Association; and MA-ASTA, the Massachusetts
Chapter of the American String Teachers Association where she is
now past President, Secretary and webmaster. She started her
teaching career as a K-5 general music teacher in the New Bedford
public school district. After that, she started her full time
strings teaching career in the Ipswich Public Schools teaching
students grades 5-12 and directing their orchestra ensembles.
Additionally, Ms. Billings-White is on the Faculty in the Music
Education Department at the Longy School of Music of Bard College
where she teaches a Strings Method II class. Her musical
background also included Trumpet and French Horn during her
middle and high school years in Update New York. Other interests
include sight-reading parties, musical theater gigs, going on
adventures with her husband and three children, making sure her
two French Bulldogs (Bear and Bianca) are not tearing up the
house, enjoying chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream whenever
possible and indoor rock climbing at Central Rock Gyms all over
Massachusetts.
jbillingswhite@lexingtonma.org