
Lauren Bain
Carl Schurz Elementary School
2018 NBISD Elementary Teacher of the Year
Lauren Bain has been an educator for the past 12 years and a teacher in NBISD for the past 9 years. She worked in North East ISD as an elementary music teacher before coming to NBISD in 2009. She currently works as the Music Teacher at Carl Schurz Elementary.
She earned both her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Music Education and Master of Arts in Teaching for All-Level Music from Trinity University. She is certified to teach music (early childhood through 12th grade) and English as a Second Language (Supplemental). She also received her Kodály Certification from Texas State University and Orff-Schulwerk Certification from Trinity University. She is President-Elect 2017-2019 for the Kodály Educators of Texas and is a member of the Organization of American Kodály Educators, Texas Music Educators Association and International Kodály Society.
Her past honors include being selected as a grant recipient through the NBISD Education Foundation in 2017, TangerKIDS in 2014 and North East ISD Educational Foundation in 2008. In 2015, she was selected as Campus Teacher of the Year at Carl Schurz Elementary School.