Meet our newest teacher, Ms. Zoe Harvey, and her student, 4th grader Jada!

One of the most important lessons we try to teach our students is persistence - playing a string instrument, like most things in life worth doing, requires a lot of it. Recently, we were reminded of the importance of persistence in another way, by Woodford’s intrepid and determined strings teacher, Carolyn Quinn. Early in the fall, Ms. Quinn had urged us to take Jada (above right) in the after school program. I explained that we didn’t have a teacher for her, and couldn’t give her what she needed. A couple weeks later, she brought it up again, and after some discussion, we discovered that Woodford has a bass teacher after all - Ms. Zoe Harvey! Ms. Zoe works at Woodford as a specialist with hearing-impaired children, but she has played bass since she was an orchestra student at Walnut Hills High School (studying with John Caliguri, one of our other teachers), and was delighted to join us. We’re really glad she’s able to pitch in, and help remind our kids how music can always be a part of your life. A big thank you to Ms. Quinn, for modeling persistence for all of us, and to Jada, for her persistence in lugging her bass around!

Please support the work that Ms. Zoe and all our teachers are doing by making a donation to the 4-Way String Project - thank you!