2009-Present Music Teacher – Wonderland Avenue School & Wonderland Avenue Gifted/High Achieving Magnet – developing and teaching a standards-based school wide musicology/theory program for 21 classes in the combined schools, grade levels K-5
Education
2006-2013 Music Teacher/Program Creator-Coordinator – General Music Program, Third Street Elementary School – developing and teaching a standards-based school wide musicology/theory program for 33 classes, grade levels K-5 2008-2009 Teaching Associate -- California State University, Los Angeles, College of Arts and Letters, Music Department – developing curriculum and teaching music fundamentals at the undergraduate level 2006-2009 Substitute Teacher – Los Angeles Unified School District 1997-2006 President -- St. Expeditus Productions – writing and supervising production on original programming for film and television 1986-1997 Freelance Screenwriter – working as an Artist For Hire for various movie studios and television networks including CBS, NBC, ABC, Warner Brothers and Disney 1981-1986 Production Assistant/Production Coordinator – overseeing various aspects of television commercial production in New York and Los Angeles
Master of Music, California State University, Los Angeles, School of Arts, Music Education – degree awarded December, 2010 Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Program – California State University, Los Angeles – credential awarded June, 2008 BFA – New York University Undergraduate School of Film and TV, 1981
Credentials/certifications
Preliminary Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, California CBEST & MS-CSET RICA Orff-Schulwerk Certification Level III
To download my resume please click on RLawtonResume’11 To read an abstract of my Master’s thesis entitled “Transcendent rhythm: the relationship between flow and Orff Schulwerk and its implications for teaching practices in the elementary music classroom” please click on Master'sThesisAbstract.pdf To read the thesis in its entirety please click on Master'sThesis.pdf To read an article by me in the Summer 2013 Issue of the Orff Echo click on OrffSummer13.pdf Resume_files/ThesisofR.Lawton12%3A2010Abstract.pdfResume_files/MastersThesis.pdfResume_files/OrffSummer13.pdfResume_files/R.Lawtonresume%2713%20revised.pdfshapeimage_9_link_0shapeimage_9_link_1shapeimage_9_link_2