Course Description Teaching music in any capacity can present several challenges, but building relationships with your students should never be one of them. Empathy and sympathy are not the same and while growing relationships with your students, it’s important to deprogram your implicit or overt biases. In this workshop, Eric and Justin provide solution-based strategies […]
Justin McLean is currently the Percussion Director/Assistant Director of Bands at Hightower HS
and Lake Olympia MS Band in Fort Bend ISD.
Prior to his appointment at Hightower he was the Percussion Director/Associate Director of
Bands at Heights High School and former director of bands at Hamilton Middle School. During
his time there he has received superior UIL ratings at both middle and high school, developed
region band students, and a quality indoor percussion ensemble.
Mr. McLean is a Texas native raised in Rosenberg, Texas a humble community right outside of
Houston. Justin's love of music began at an earlier age and was heavily influenced in church
through both gospel and secular artists/musicians. His ambitions propelled him to strive for
excellence not only in his personal aspirations, but also in his academic/professional life.
He received a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Prairie View A&M University in 2011
and has had the pleasure of educating and training young musicians as a band director and
percussion instructor for the past 9 years in HISD and now Fort Bend ISD. He is also devoted
music director and student minister in his local church and currently pursuing a Masters
Divinity degree through Reformed Theological Seminary.
Justin McLean co hosts the podcast called The Score,
along with friend and colleague Eric Jimenez. He is the husband to Bee McLean and the
father to Lennox, Blaise, Cairo, and Ari.