Marcia H. Laird

 Marcia Laird holds a Bachelor’s and Master of Music Education degree from Eastern Kentucky University, where she served as a graduate assistant. She taught high school band in Southern Indiana from 1979 to 1988 before coming to Georgia.  Ms. Laird has taught at the middle/junior high levels in DeKalb and Fulton County for the last twenty one years. Her bands have performed at prestigious conferences and have earned superior ratings at state and national music festivals.  She has finished her seventh year as Director of Bands at Elkins Pointe Middle School where the symphonic band in 2005 was awarded the National Middle School Concert Band Award from Music Festivals with the top score from 38 festival sites nationwide.

 Ms. Laird was named “Teacher of the Year” at Miller Grove Junior High School for 1991-92 and the TBS “Super Teacher” for the month of November 1992  She received the National Band Association  “Citation of Excellence” award in 1993 and has been named to the 1994, 1996, 2002, and 2005 “Who’s Who Among American Teachers”.  In 2000 Ms. Laird and the Northwestern Symphonic Band was awarded the “Music For Life Leadership Award” on behalf of the Flashback Concert idea and received a grant from the National Association of Music Merchants.  Governor William Patton named Ms. Laird a “Kentucky Colonel” in 2001 for her leadership in music education.  She was named “Teacher of the Year” at Elkins Pointe for 2006-2007 and the 2006 Georgia Music Educators’ “Music Educator of the Year”. 

Ms. Laird is a member of the following professional organizations: GMEA, MENC, Delta Omicron, and Phi Beta Mu.   Within GMEA, the state music education association, she has served as District Chair, District Band Chair, GMEA State 1^st Vice-President, and GMEA State President.  In 2005-07 she served as President of the Georgia Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, an honorary band fraternity.

 Marcia Laird currently serves as a head adjudicator for the GMEA Middle School Band LGPE and is the Band Department Chair for North Fulton County Schools.