about linda granite

Linda teaches fourth & fifth grade elementary band at Marshall & McKnight Elementary Schools, in the North Allegheny School District.  She earned a bachelors of science degree in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  She has taken graduate classes at Mansfield University and in Duquesne University’s Summers Only Masters Program.  She plans to complete her masters in the coming year (if she can find someone to watch her kids and clean her house while she does that!).

She started her career teaching grades 4-12 music in the Port Allegany School District, Port Allegany, PA.  For four years, her responsibilities included all band instruction for the district and junior high general music.  She directed marching band and four concert bands.  For enrichment, she led extra-curricular junior high and senior high jazz bands, clarinet, flute and percussion ensembles. 

In 1998, she moved back home to Butler, PA and taught elementary band and strings in the Butler Area School District.  In 2001, she married and by 2003, had 2 kids under 2.  She took a huge leap and resigned from that position, to be with her two small children.  For four years, she did her best to remain current in the profession by teaching privately and playing in several local ensembles.  She loved being home with her girls, but missed teaching in the public schools.  When an opportunity arose to go back to work in January of 2007, she went for it.  She is now teaching in the building where her oldest daughter is in kindergarten.  What a fabulous job for a working mother!  She is very happy to be “back in the saddle again” with such a wonderful school, where there are tremendous resources and enthusiasm for the arts.

Balancing work and marriage and motherhood is challenging, but she always tries to make time for making her own music.  She plays clarinet in the Musicians Concert Band (Slippery Rock, PA) and the Keystone Wind Ensemble (Indiana, PA).