Allison Schnier is an elementary general music specialist in the Elmbrook School District in Brookfield, WI. She has a BA in Music from Luther College in Decorah, IA and a Masters of Music in Music Education with Kodály Emphasis from Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, WI. She is certified in the Kodály approach, as well as Dr. John M. Feierabend’s First Steps in Music, Conversational Solfege Levels 1 & 2, and Conversational Solfege- Upper Levels curricula. She is also currently working on her Social-Emotional Learning Certification from Rutgers University. Allison currently serves as President-Elect of the Association of Wisconsin-Area Kodály Educators (AWAKE), a state chapter of OAKE, and as the Vice President of the Greater Milwaukee Orff Dimensions (GMOD), a local chapter of AOSA. She has presented workshops on Social-Emotional Learning in the general music classroom, and has served as a guest clinician working with high school choirs on South African and Namibian choral music. Allison is an active member of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus and has sung Soprano 1 with them for the past 5 seasons.