Local Hagan Foundation helps Cheney School District outfit students with new xylophones
Windsor music teacher Dorothy Thomas directs the fifth-grade marimba band on aspects of the song "Mbira Jam" during practice Feb. 15.
See a photo gallery from the event here.
Dorothy Thomas feels she has a pretty good deal working part-time for the Cheney School District. After retiring a few years ago, the long-time Spokane-area music teacher has been filling in where needed in the school district the last three years, helping teach beginning band at Betz Elementary School in Cheney and several music classes at Windsor Elementary, including strings.
"It's like a nice, little part-time gig that I just love," Thomas said.
But at the school on Hallett Road, Thomas felt she was detracting from the music instruction of fulltime...
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