My teaching philosophy is to cater every lesson to the individual needs of each student while maintaining a culture of mutual respect and constructive interactions. Anti-racism, trauma informed, and culturally responsive sustainable education practices are embedded into how I teach and interact with students and families.
Teaching
Teaching Experience
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Brooks began in August of 2023 as a Teaching Artist for SDYS’s Opus Project
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Brooks taught double bass, strings, and ensembles at MYCincinnati from 2019 to 2023
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In the summer of 2023, Brooks was an assistant director of 4 summer camps through School of Rock Cincinnati.
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In the summer of 2022, Brooks was a disciplinary assistant to the music department of Kentucky’s Governor’s School for the Arts
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From 2019 to 2022 Brooks taught bass and coached bands through Girls Rock Cincinnati’s summer programs, and served as the Youth Programming Coordinator in 2021.
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Brooks coached double bass sectionals at Mason High School in Cincinnati, Ohio during the 2022-2023 school year.
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Brooks has taught private lessons since their undergrad. Students have been recognized as exceptional by the Carlson-Berne Foundation, and Brooks’s student has placed 4th chair in the state of Ohio’s Allstate Orchestra as a freshman in high school.
Private Lessons
Rates:
Online lessons: $50/45 minutes, $60/1 hour
I drive to you: $60/ 45 minutes, $70/ 1 hour
If you are under financial stress, talk to me about pay what you can rates.
Student projects
Girls Rock Cincinnati 2021; Brooks’s camper band Tangerine wrote this song and recorded it in 2023
MYCincinnati double bass class project guided by the Lynx Project’s Sounds of a City cirriculum
MYCincinnati & WordPlay students collaborated to accompany poetry with planned instrumental improvisation