OMEA Nominations

Vice President Candidates

Janet Lea

Janet Lea teaches kindergarten through fifth grade general music as well as fourth/fifth grade choir at North Bay Elementary at North Bend School District in North Bend, OR. This is her 4th year teaching general music. The seven years prior she taught secondary choir and drama in various schools throughout Oregon. She currently serves as OMEA District 7 chair.

Janet attended Pacific Lutheran University from 1995 to 1998 where she studied music composition. She received her Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in music composition from Whitworth College in 1999, and her Master of Arts in Teaching from Lewis & Clark College in 2005. Ms. Lea also holds an Endorsement in Drama from George Fox University.

Elementary Area Chair Candidates

Sarah Goff

Sarah Goff is in her third year as the music teacher at Portland Village School, a K-8 Waldorf-inspired public charter school. At PVS, she also leads an after-school choir, acts as the school’s Events Coordinator, and serves on the Principal’s Advisory Committee. In addition to her position at PVS, Sarah directs the choir at Bethel Lutheran Church in North Portland, and has worked for the Oregon Bach Festival’s Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy for 7 summers.

Sarah earned her Master of Arts in Teaching at Oregon State University, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Grinnell College in Iowa. She served as an AmeriCorps volunteer through Ethos Music Center for two years in Central Oregon, teaching elementary music and middle school choir in the Jefferson County School District. Sarah’s graduate research with Dr. Jason Silveira about music teachers’ attitudes toward transgender students and supportive school practices was recently published in the Journal of Research in Music Education. Sarah is an active member of OMEA/NAfME, sending elementary and middle school singers to participate in allstate ensembles each year, and attending state and national conferences.

Mandy R. Mullett

Mandy R. Mullett is the Director of Bands at Highland Park Middle School in Beaverton, OR. The program includes beginning band, symphonic band and wind ensemble, as well as marching band and jazz ensembles. In addition to her current appointment, Ms. Mullett has served as both marching and jazz instructor at Southridge High School in Beaverton. She attended the University of Oregon, where she earned both her Bachelor and Masters degrees in Music Education. Ms. Mullett is active as an adjudicator and guest conductor for several programs across the state, as well as teaching at summer band camps including Twin Rocks and Metro Honor Band Camp. She currently serves as Area Chair for OMEA District 15.

Beth Wheeler

Dr. Wheeler teaches various courses in music education at the University of Oregon, including: elementary music pedagogy, managing behavior in the music classroom, and research in music education. Her research focus is primarily in the area of perception and cognition. She has presented research at the National Association for Music Education Conference, the International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior, and the Kansas Music Educators Association State Conference.

Dr. Wheeler has served as the Northeast District Elementary Chairperson of the Kansas Music Educators Association, Secretary/Treasurer for the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association, flute and woodwind ensemble adjudicator for the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association, curriculum and instructional coach for elementary music educators in Kansas, professional development instructor for public school music educators in Missouri and Kansas, guest clinician/conductor in Missouri and Kansas, and as a public school music educator in Iowa, Kansas and Arkansas.

Dr. Wheeler is a member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Oregon Music Education Association (OMEA), Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA), and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC).