About Ms. J...

Terry Jenkins has been employed as a band director at North Augusta Middle School for the past twenty eight years. Her first year of teaching was spent at LBC High School and Jefferson Jr. High School teaching band to grades seven through twelve. She also participated as a faculty member in the Aiken County GATEWAY program (Gifted and Talented Education with Artistic Youth) for four summers.

During her twenty-nine years of teaching, she has held memberships in the following organizations:

MENC (Music Educator’s National Conference), SCMEA (South Carolina Music Educator’s Association), SCBDA (South Carolina Band Director’s Association) where she also participated on the Award’s Committee, Concert Festival Committee, and All-State Committee She also served as chairperson of the Award’s Committee where she was also a member of the SCBDA executive board. In addition, she served as chairperson of the Western Region Band and the Southern Region Band for several years. She is also a member SCAAE (South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education) and the SCAA (South Carolina Arts Alliance). She has been a member of the Aiken County Band Director’s Association since its inception and has held the following offices throughout the years, president, vice president, secretary, and publicity chairperson. She was a member of ASBDA American School Band Director’s Association) and NBA (National Band Association). Ms. Jenkins is a product of the North Augusta Band Program. She has lived in North Augusta all her life and graduated from North Augusta High School in 1974. Her former junior high and high school directors include: Richard Brasco (who she also taught with beginning in 1980) and Joe Wilson. Ms. Jenkins received a Bachelor of Music Education Degree (B.M.E.) from the University of South Carolina in 1978, and has done post-graduate work at Coastal Carolina University; Converse College, Ohio State University, and the University of South Carolina. Ms. Jenkins has three times been chosen as “Teacher of the Year” by her peers at North Augusta Middle School (2002-03, 1994-95, and 1986-87). In 2002, as “Teacher of the Year”, she was named to the District’s Honor Council. She was also named to “Who’s Who Among American Teachers” in 2002. In 1987 and 1991, the North Augusta Middle School band participated as a “Featured Performing Ensemble” at the SCMEA In-Service Conference in Greenville, SC. Her bands consistently receive superior and excellent ratings at festival and have fifteen times received the SCBDA “Outstanding Performance Award”. Ms. Jenkins has also served as a clinician and adjudicator in South Carolina and Georgia.

Ms. Jenkins is a proud mom to a "pound puppy llasa apsa" named Maggie.