I began my teaching career at Roanoke High School in Robersonville, NC. I later taught a Hibriten High School and Gamewell Middle School.  Here at Collettsville, I am the band director, general music teacher, and guitar instructor at Collettsville School in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Jonathan is a graduate of Hibriten High School and Wake Forest University, and holds a B.A. in Music Education. Jonathan has taught high school band, middle school band, general music, and guitar in the N.C. Public Schools for over twenty-two years. In 2011, Jonathan was the winner of the Maxine Swalin Award for Outstanding Music Educator of North Carolina. in 2016, I received the Service Award from the Loving Lenoir Organization.