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Douglas C. Armstrong
Director of Bands |
Doug Armstrong is
the Director of Bands for Mountain View High School.
Originally from Richmond, Virginia, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Virginia Tech
and completed a Master of Arts degree in Music with emphasis in Conducting from Radford University.
Mr. Armstrong has been with the Stafford County Public Schools for
eleven years. Before coming to Mountain View, he spent a year working as assistant to the band directors at A. G. Wright and Gayle Middle Schools. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Bands at Brooke Point High School for eight years
where the band program earned a reputation for Superior performance.
Before coming to Stafford County, Mr. Armstrong taught in Montgomery and Washington Counties in southwest Virginia and served for one year in the Virginia Beach City Schools.
Mr. Armstrong holds membership and leadership positions in numerous professional
music and music education organizations including MENC, VMEA, VBODA, The National Band Association, Phi Mu
Alpha and Phi Beta Mu International Bandmaster's Fraternity.
He is currently serving as President-Elect of the Virginia Band and
Orchestra Directors Association. He remains an active performer on Euphonium as a member of the Fairfax Wind Symphony.
Honors include listings in
Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in American Education and
five consecutive listings in Who’s Who Among
America’s Teachers. He has been awarded the Virginia
Lottery's Excellence in Education Award and has been granted
the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. He is also the recipient of a joint
resolution by the House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia for
excellence in education. In 2002, he was named Brooke Point High School Teacher of the Year.
He was also selected as the Stafford County Teacher of the Year and was awarded the Washington Post’s
Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2003, Mr. Armstrong was
selected as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Teacher of the Year.
E-mail:
armstrongdc@staffordschools.net
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Favorite quotes:
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of students of unequal ability."
- Plato in The Republic
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"We make a living by what
we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
White House Oval Office Ceremony for
State Teachers of the Year, April 30, 2003
With Virginia's Governor Mark Warner,
January, 2003 |
