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In her homeroom class, she began to talk about her music and club experiences. One Friday she brought her guitar and played for the doudoune moncler kids.

She became one, winding up teaching 6th-grade science at the Morrill Math & Science Specialty School in the Gage Park neighborhood.

Her first album, the independently produced “Be the Change,” was hailed as “a masterpiece … intriguing, captivating and compelling,” by doudoune femme Maverick Magazine, a respected country music publication in, of all places, Great Britain. Quick was a finalist in the international John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and the Texas-based Countrychart.com said “she has the vocal chops to take on the divas of country music.” In addition to all that, she has created Fingertips (fingertipsprogram.com), an arts and education effort that combines her live music with motivational tales.

She’s got a couple of Fingertips programs scheduled at local schools next month and a public appearance Sept. 21 at the Orland Park Library. “I really love Nashville,” she says, “but it’s not Chicago.”

There is no question that one of the tragedies of public education is that when budgets get squeezed the arts get cut, deemed expendable rather than essential elements of education, doudoune pas cher of life.

But her heart, in chaussures soldes many important ways, is still in Chicago and still in the classroom.

“By then I had, empowered by the response of the kids, started to write my own music at night, after grading papers,” she says. “When I was put on probation, that seemed almost like a sign, a blessing in disguise. Still, it broke my heart, the decision to leave teaching and pursue music full time.”

Listen to authors , Krista August and James Joyce (the former Chicago Fire Department commissioner) and musician Patti Rain on “The Sunday Papers With ,” 6:30-9 a.m. Sunday on WGN-AM 720.

Always in love with music — “I was a big Beatles fan and nuts about Motown,” she says — she hooked up through Craigslist with the country/rock band Yard Fulla Cars and started playing the local scene.

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She is charming, personable and sincere, and is also a one-woman operation, doudoune moncler pas cher doing all of the producing, booking, public relations and scheduling herself (katiequick.com). She recently sang at a local benefit here and louboutin homme generally returns home about once a month to play and to see her family and friends. From CPS teacher to Nashville singer: Katie Quick traces her start as a country singer back to singing in classroom

“A lot of the kids in there and other neighborhoods in Chicago don’t even show up for class,” says Quick. “And veste moncler if they do come, some just shut down, zone out. Too much testing, too much routine. Their minds can’t take it.”

And so, in short, here is that story.

She hung around these parts for a while, playing with the band and working as a nanny. Two years ago she moved to Nashville.

Five years ago, Quick was placed on probation for her musical efforts in class.

Quick is a child of Evergreen Park and a 2000 graduate of Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School.

“Growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher, to try to make a difference,” she says.

It is possible, had things worked out a bit differently, that Katie Quick might be back in a Chicago Public Schools classroom doing what she loves to do, which is teach.

“There are so many kids, especially in the inner city, that never experience live music,” she says. “I started to use my music and stories as a kind of incentive for the kids to come to class, to do their homework and to behave. Some of them thought it was funny, ‘Oh, Miss Quick, she sings country.’ But attendance went up and so did grades.”

But life is full of unexpected twists and turns, and so we find Quick living in Nashville, Tenn., and making a name for herself in the music world. She is a rising star on the country music scene, a singer-songwriter with two CDs, dozens of TV and radio appearances, international concert dates and a growing following.

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