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Faculty
Owen Roberts is a Level III Orff instructor in his thirteenth year as an elementary school music teacher. While completing his multiple subject teaching credential through the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute (BATTI), he taught in first and second grade classrooms as a support teacher at Marin Country Day School. Owen studied classics and international relations as an undergraduate, then spent 10 years playing in bands in Italy, New York, and back home in California. An accomplished singer and songwriter, Owen has toured extensively with bands and as a solo artist, and developed curricula for teaching songwriting to children. Owen joined the BPC faculty in 2020.
Teaching Since
2012
Pronouns
he/him
Contact
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Why I Work with Children
I love participating in the joy that children experience making music.
A Favorite Book
Shel Silverstein’s A Light In The Attic for its rhyme, meter, depth and levity
Quick Fact
Was a college volleyball coach
Lower School Spanish Teacher
Aïda attended the same elementary school as opera tenor Josep Carreras.
Full Bio >
First Grade Head Teacher, Kindergarten and First Grade Garden Teacher
Learning to play the Celtic Harp and studying Irish Gaelic
First-Third Grade Cello Teacher
Toured with the Western Opera Theater for eight years
Kindergarten Assistant Teacher
First Grade Assistant Teacher
As a child, I wanted to be a farmer when I grew up.
Second Grade Assistant Teacher
Favorite dish to make and eat is “Sin Nam Thok”
Kindergarten Head Teacher
Where I was born, now stands a Yoda statue
Lower School Art Teacher
Started clowning at age 9
Lower School Physical Education Teacher
Has developed a secret pizza sauce
Kindergarten-Fifth Grade Science and Second-Fifth Grade Garden Teacher
Apprenticed at the National Theater of Croatia
First-Third Grade Violin Teacher
Played at the Grammys
BPC String Orchestra Leader
Creates musical arrangements for fun
Second Grade Head Teacher, Lower School Assistant Teacher Coordinator
Mad for dancing
Fifth Grade Assistant Teacher
Trying to re-learn Spanish
Third Grade Head Teacher
Took three and a half months to bike across the country with my husband
