• Meet the Music Teacher:  Mrs. Molly Lueken pic of Mrs. Molly Lueken

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    Hello!  Thanks for visiting my music classroom page.  My name is Mrs. Molly Lueken, and I am the lucky music teacher at W.D. Richards Elementary School in the great city of Columbus, IN.  This is my fourth year at Richards, but my sixth year teaching elementary music. 

    I am a graduate of the Ball State University School of Music.  I have a bachelor's degree in K-12 Vocal and General Music Education.  My major instrument in college was voice and I was a member of the Ball State Chamber Choir for four years.  After graduating in December 2006, I taught elementary music for two years in Sebring, Florida.  In Fall 2009, I moved to the mountains of Appalachia and spent two years working in adult education and afterschool programs.  I found myself back home again in Indiana in the fall of 2011 and worked for one year as the Literacy Coordinator for BCSC's McDowell Adult Education Center before starting at Richards in the fall of 2012.
     
    While I consider my primary instrument to be voice, I also play the flute and a little bit of guitar.   I am a big fan of musical theater and have performed in community theater productions of Thouroughly Modern Millie (Miss Dorothy Brown; Highlands Little Theater, Sebring, FL; 2009), Seussical the Musical (Mayzie la Bird; HLT, Sebring; 2008); and Nunsense (Sr. Robert Anne; Appalachian Community Theatre, Paintsville, KY; 2011).
     
    In summer 2015, I completed my training as a certified Orff-Schulwerk instructor at Anderson University.  The Orff-Schulwerk is a teaching process created by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman in the early 1900s.  Orff and Keetman believed that music should start with a child's natural speech, body movement, and cultural folk songs.  Children then learn to accompany themselves, improvise, and compose  on unique mallet instruments known as Orff instruments.  I am excited to share this process with the students at Richards and watch them grow in musicianship and creativity.
     
    I live in Franklin with my husband, Kyle, and son, Jude.  Outside of performing, listening to, and doing pretty much anything involving music, I also love to read and enjoy the outdoors.  In addition to my music teaching certification, I also hold a K-12 reading license and assist with reading instruction in some Richards classrooms.
     
     
     
     
Last Modified on July 12, 2018