Seth Skiles is a passionate music educator and West Virginia native serving as an elementary music specialist at Rock Branch Elementary School in Nitro, West Virginia. Skiles earned his Bachelor of Arts in music education from Anderson University. He obtained a master’s degree in church music with a conducting concentration from Belmont University. After teaching elementary music in the Nashville, Tennessee, area, Skiles returned to West Virginia, bringing his acquired educational practices and cultural experiences to his home school district.

Skiles is certified in the John Feierabend First Steps in Music curriculum and is pursuing National Board Certification. His professional development experience includes the Mozarteum University Orff Institute’s international elemental music course in Salzburg, Austria; conducting intensives through Rider University’s Westminster Choir College; Disney Institute’s Approach to Leadership Excellence course; West Virginia University’s World Music Pedagogy course; the 2024 National Association for Music Education Biennial Music Research and Teacher Education conference; and state music education conferences in Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia. His passion for arts education influences the classroom environment, creating a learning atmosphere driven by heightened student engagement and lifelong learning attributes.

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