Ms. Powers has been teaching chorus and piano classes for the district since she moved to Long Branch in 1995, and has been teaching group piano classes at Monmouth University since 2005. She received her undergraduate degree in Music Education, k-12 from Kean University in 1982, and received an MBA in Corporate Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson in 1991. In this time, she took summer music classes at Westminster Choir College, including AP music theory, music technology, Piano Pedagogy, Gospel Music, Vocal Techniques, NATS workshops (National Association of Teachers of Singers), and Kodaly training part !.