Kristina Waugh

Kristina Waugh has been teaching music for over 20 years, with experience spanning middle and high school choir, as well as elementary and middle school general music. She currently serves as the choir director at Rossview High School in Clarksville, Tennessee and is the lead teacher for choral music in the Clarksville Montgomery County School System. In this leadership role, she facilitates professional learning for choral directors and leads the development and revision of the district’s choral curriculum.

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Kristina holds a Bachelor of Music Education, Master of Music in Music Education, and Kodály Certification from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. As part of her graduate studies, she also studied at the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary, with a focus on secondary choral music and Kodály inspired pedagogy. A passionate advocate for choral literacy and pedagogy, Kristina regularly presents workshops on integrating the Kodály concept in the choral classroom.

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Kristina’s leadership and contributions have been recognized nationally. She has served on the Organization of American Kodály Educators National Honor Choir Committee and is a recipient of the Jéno Àdam Scholarship awarded by OAKE. Her honors include being named a Country Music Association Teacher of Excellence in both 2018 and 2023, CMCEA Distinguished Teacher of the Year at Rossview High School in 2022, Rossview Middle School Teacher of the Year in 2019, and Golden Apple Award Teacher by WTHI TV in 2013.

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Email: kristina.waugh@cmcss.net

Phone: 931-553-2070 x2718