Julie Gleason

Julie Gleason was born in Marysville, KS. She graduated from Valley Heights H.S. and graduated from Kansas State University with a dual major in Elementary Education and Music. Julie earned additional endorsements in Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science in middle school. Her music degrees were vocal and instrumental with minors in piano and trumpet. After teaching 5 years, she completed her Masters Degree in 1989 with an emphasis in Reading and Language Arts. During her teaching careers at Centralia School, her class assignments have included K-12 vocal music, 5-12 instrumental music, Junior high Speech, Spelling, 9th grade English, Sophomore English and college English. She is married with four kids. Mrs. Gleason has been a class sponsor for many classes and is serving as National Honors Society Sponsor. She currently has several high ranking performance groups all of which are soloists who have been very successful in music competitions at the league, regional, and state levels. Her music groups have been the opening act for performances such as Barbara Fairchild, The Hughes Brothers, 50's at the Hop, and The Hay Goods. Julie's hobbies are reading, needlework, drag racing, and cars. Mrs. Gleason's community activities include giving piano lessons, working for the Centralia Ambulance as an EMT, and helping coach summer League Ball. You can e-mail Julie at gleasonj@usd380.com.