1Chance2Learn.net Founders
Justin Ormsby is a music educator in the
Southwest Missouri region. After graduating from Missouri State University with a Bachelors of Music Education degree,
Ormsby joined the team at The Summit Preparatory School in Springfield, MO where he taught K – 6 general music. After leaving The Summit he accepted a
graduate assistantship at Missouri State University to continue his Masters of
Science in Secondary Education – Music degree.
While employed at Missouri
State University, where he taught introduction to music
education and arts integration courses, Ormsby also assumed the position of
Assistant Band Director at Parkview High
School.
After the completion of his Graduate Assistantship Ormsby took the head
band directing job in the Mansfield
Public School
District, Mansfield, MO.
While at Mansfield he created the school’s first ever field show marching
band, which won 6 trophies (including best in class, best drum major and best
color guard) at the band’s very first competition. Ormsby also organized the school’s first
performing jazz band, had an 80+ % recruitment rate for beginning band, and
helped produce the first two instrumental music majors in Mansfield history. Along with Music Education, Ormsby’s primary
interests are educational philosophy and policy, creating effective and
thoughtful teachers, and the relationship between philosophy and praxis in
education. Ormsby is a founding member
of 1chance2learn.net. 
He holds a BA and MA in English from Missouri State University.
His professional interests include composition and rhetoric, modern and contemporary American literature, journalism, and science fiction.
Jonathan Hall is in his
fourth year as an educator at Bradford
High School, in Starke, Florida. His teaching responsiblities include
teaching instrumental music and a freshman foundation course of entitled
Critical Thinking &
Career Choices. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree
from Missouri
State University in 2007. Hall is currently
pursuing his Masters degree in Music Education from Auburn University.
His crucial concerns deal
with building a case against standardized testing, showing and proving that
social inequities still exist, debunking a heavy reliance on traditional methods of
teaching and validating arts education as a true curricular component of
schooling--more for its aesthetic, affective and emotional implications, rather
than the statistic and trends of benefiting other content areas and,
[especially] higher test scores.
Jonathan and his wife Stephanie currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida with their children, Noah and
Olivia.
