This all began from the music classroom of Margaret Jerz. She was trying to decorate her room with motivational posters, and not being able to find what she was looking for in the teacher supply catalogs, decided to create her own, on her home computer. Other teachers saw them on her walls, and started asking for them. She contacted Evan, a graphic designer, and incidentally, her son-in-law, and he developed them as original art, sent them to a 4-color printer, and they became what you see today, now offered nation-wide in teacher resource catalogs Music In Motion, Music K-8, West Music.

Margaret Jerz
Co-founder

Margaret A. Jerz is a veteran teacher having taught elementary music in Florida, New Hampshire and, since 1990, in the D. C. Everest school district in Schofield, WI. In addition to her kindergarten through fifth grade classes, she directs several DRRUM (Discipline, Respect, Responsibility and Unity through Music) clubs, an outgrowth of the students' desire for more time to improve their music performance skills through percussion activities. Membership is open to all students with the understanding that their homework must be done carefully and handed in on time or they cannot attend DRRUM class that week.

Ms. Jerz holds a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and a Masters of Music Education from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. She earned her Certification in Orff-Schulwerk at the University of Lowell, Lowell, MA. She has been involved in the World Music Drumming program since its beginnings at Conference Point in Lake Geneva, WI. She accompanies vocal students at the Wausau Conservatory of Music and is a member of the music staff at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Wausau.

Margaret is the creator of a new set of concept wall posters, Word Power, that feature the key words from the World Music Drumming curriculum. For more information, contact her at: mfjmmm2@aol.com.

Evan Schultz
Co-founder

Evan Schultz is a graphic designer who has spanned the spectrum in the design field from Advertising Agencies to marketing firms to environmental design. He has worked with a broad range of clients: Sun Microsystems, HP, American Family Insurance, Fantastic Foods, Xilinx, Teradyne, GE Medical Systems and Agilent Technologies, United way in his 16-year career.

Creating the graphics for the Word Power was a way to explore art for art's sake, a chance to marry musical imagery with a musical theme. Since Evan doesn't play a musical instrument himself, but loves music, designing musical graphics was as close as he could get to playing.

Evan holds a B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin Madison. To contact Evan, you can email him at: evan@two-che.com.

Connie Schultz
Co-founder

Connie is well-versed in understanding children of all ages and walks of life. She has taught in both Elementary school and High school special education.

Connie holds a B.A. in Education from Keene State College, New Hampshire, a Masters in Environmental Education from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and a Special Education Endorsement from the University of Colorado at Denver.

You can reach Connie by emailing: eczschultz@msn.com.