Mrs. Ronda Jackson

Hi, my name is Ronda Jackson.  I am the music teacher here at St. John Paul II Catholic School.  I graduated from Hanover College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and then completed my Masters of Education Degree at Indiana University Southeast.  This is my twenty-eighth year teaching and twenty-seven of these years have been in the Indianapolis Archdiocese.  I am both blessed and proud to say that this is my twenty-third year to be part of this wonderful JPII school family.
 
          My personal family includes my husband, Keith, and two precious children we adopted from Guatemala.  We have been married for almost 26 years and our kids are in grades 7 and 8.  We live on a farm, travel when possible, and love to spend time together. 
         
          Music in school is both a body of knowledge and a sequence of activities that provide a wide variety of experiences.  These experiences prepare students to be enlightened music listeners as well as performers.  I encourage students to become life-long learners and I strive to stimulate student learning through activities that are aligned with the Indiana State Standards for Music Education. 
 
          I look forward to meeting each of you here at St. John Paul II Catholic School.  May we all remember that in music there is harmony and in harmony there is peace…