Dr. Charles R. Jackson, Jr.
Full-Time Lecturer in Music Education (Band) [beginning on August 1, 2022]
Georgia State University School of Music
Atlanta, GA
Full-Time Lecturer in Music Education (Band) [beginning on August 1, 2022]
Georgia State University School of Music
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Jackson is beginning his 44th year as a music educator with the start of the 2022-2023 school year. After nine successful years as a Part-Time Assistant Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University, he will begin his first year as a Full-Time Lecturer in Music Education (Band) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Over the past 9 years at KSU, he has taught all Woodwind and Brass Techniques courses, Instrumental Methods Materials and Curriculum, Music in Society, and has supervised student teachers in the area of Band. During the 2015-2019 school years, he served as the Part-Time Faculty Council Representative for the School of Music, serving as Vice-President 2017-2019. Dr. Jackson was elected the Director of the Cobb New Horizons Symphonic Band in the spring of 2016. He has served as a guest conductor for honor bands in Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia, and frequently serves as a trumpet and brass clinician for several Cobb County Public Schools. Dr. Jackson retired from the Cobb County School District at the end of the 2012-2013 school year after a 34-year teaching career as a Director of Bands. During his final 15 years with the Cobb County School District, he served as the Director of Bands at Dodgen Middle School in Marietta, GA (Cobb County).
Under Dr. Jackson's direction, the Dodgen Bands consistently receive straight superior ratings from all adjudicators in the areas of concert performance and sight-reading at the annual G.M.E.A. performance evaluation. Dodgen's Band Program placed 40 students in the Georgia All-State Band between the years 2002 and 2013. In addition to this honor, over 100 Dodgen Band students earn the highest rating of superior for performances at the G.M.E.A. Solo & Ensemble Evaluation each year. Under Dr. Jackson's direction, the Dodgen morning ensemble program has grown to include ten ensembles which meet weekly before or after school in addition to daily band classes for grades 6, 7, and 8. The Dodgen Band places 10 to 20 students each year in the G.M.E.A. District 12 Honor Band with many earning principal first chair positions! Dr. Jackson has had many private students awarded prestigious first chair positions in the Georgia High School and Middle School All-State Bands over the past 28 years. Before his appointment at Dodgen, Dr. Jackson served as Director of Jr. High School Bands in the Meridian Separate Public School System in Meridian, Mississippi (1979-1985). In addition to his duties and responsibilities as Director of Bands, he served as the Director of the Navy Chapel Choir at the Naval Air Station in Meridian, MS. He left his duties in Meridian to accept the position as Director of Bands at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, where he remained for eight years (1985-1992). Following his appointment at Campbell, Dr. Jackson served as Director of Bands at Garrett Middle School for five years (1993-1998). In addition to the annual G.M.E.A. performance evaluations, his bands have been awarded numerous superior ratings at regional, state, and international music festivals and competitions. In addition to his duties and responsibilities at K.S.U., Dr. Jackson maintains an active performance career on the trumpet. He frequently performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles throughout the Metro Atlanta area and has performed throughout Florida, Mississippi, and Illinois.
Dr. Jackson began his first college music courses in 1969 at the Miami-Dade Junior College in Miami, Florida. He transferred his college credits from M.D.J.C. and earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1979), and studied conducting with Dr. Joe Barry Mullins. He received the Master of Science degree in Music Education from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1984). While at Illinois, Dr. Jackson studied trumpet with recording artist David Hickman and was a conducting student of Dr. Harry Begian. He also performed as a member of the University of Illinois Band under the Direction of Dr. Begian. In 1994, Dr. Jackson earned his Education Specialist degree in Instrumental Music Education from Georgia State University and studied trumpet with Dr. Steve Winick, and was a conducting student of Jim Curnow. His Specialist thesis was titled: The Effects of Participation in High School Instrumental Music Ensembles On Adult Musical Activity and Musical Preference. The Doctor of Musical Arts degree was completed in 2008 at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. Dr. Jackson's dissertation was titled: Effectiveness of Preservice Experience and Course Work in Music Education toward Teacher Self-Efficacy in Classroom Management. He has served as guest conductor for the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony at Emory University. He has served as a guest conductor/clinician for several concert bands and honor bands at the high school and middle school levels in the Greater Atlanta area. In addition to his conducting appointments, he has served as a trumpet clinician for both middle and high school trumpet sections. He has served on the staff for the Music for All (B.O.A.) Summer Symposium from 2007 through 2019 presenting a series of clinics at Illinois State University and Ball State University. In December of 2018, Dr. Richard Crain, President of the Midwest Board of Directors, invited Dr. Jackson to serve as a clinician at the 2018 Midwest Clinic in Chicago to speak on the topic of Performance Preparation for Middle School and Young Bands.
As part of the D.M.A. degree, Dr. Jackson was a trumpet student of Mark Hughes (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) and a conducting student of Dr. Scott Stewart (Emory University). As a performing member and Vice-President of the Cobb Wind Symphony, Dr. Jackson was among the Cobb Wind Symphony members recently awarded the Sudler Silver Scroll, North America's most prestigious award for community concert bands. He performed in the trumpet section with the Cobb Wind Symphony at the 2003 and 2011 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Jackson's professional and honorary affiliations include G.M.E.A., M.E.N.C., P.A.G.E., Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Kappa Delta Pi, and an Honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma.
Awards and Recognition
He served as the Guest Clinician/Conductor for the Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble's Annual Trumpet Festival held at Emory University 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Dr. Jackson served the Georgia Music Educators Association from 2002 through 2004 as Chairman for District XII, a position overseeing all public and private schools in Cobb and Douglas counties (over 24,000 music students) and served two years on the State Board of Directors for the Georgia Music Educator's Association. Dr. Jackson has served as the Vice-President of the Cobb Wind Symphony and served on the National Brass Symposium Advisory Board.
Publications
His recent eBook titled The Band Director's Book of Secrets published through the C.L. Barnhouse Publishing Company is now available as of October 2017. Yamaha's December 2017 issue of SupportED featured an article By Dr. Jackson that focused on sight-reading. He is one of the principal authors for Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Band published in 2014 through G.I.A.
Dr. Jackson was born in Miami, Florida, and lived the first 18 years of his life in the City of Hialeah, a northwestern suburb of Miami. He attended Amelia Earhart Elementary School, Hialeah Jr. High School, and Hialeah Sr. High school. He lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi while attending the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Jackson is married to the former Jane M. Sykes of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and they will celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary in August of 2022. They have four children, Mary (38), Vincent (37), Stephen (34), and Angela (23). They have one grandchild, Kasper (9 years old). Mrs. Jackson currently serves as Director of Music at St. Peter Chanel Roman Catholic Church in Roswell, GA. Dr. & Mrs. Jackson currently reside in Acworth, GA.
Under Dr. Jackson's direction, the Dodgen Bands consistently receive straight superior ratings from all adjudicators in the areas of concert performance and sight-reading at the annual G.M.E.A. performance evaluation. Dodgen's Band Program placed 40 students in the Georgia All-State Band between the years 2002 and 2013. In addition to this honor, over 100 Dodgen Band students earn the highest rating of superior for performances at the G.M.E.A. Solo & Ensemble Evaluation each year. Under Dr. Jackson's direction, the Dodgen morning ensemble program has grown to include ten ensembles which meet weekly before or after school in addition to daily band classes for grades 6, 7, and 8. The Dodgen Band places 10 to 20 students each year in the G.M.E.A. District 12 Honor Band with many earning principal first chair positions! Dr. Jackson has had many private students awarded prestigious first chair positions in the Georgia High School and Middle School All-State Bands over the past 28 years. Before his appointment at Dodgen, Dr. Jackson served as Director of Jr. High School Bands in the Meridian Separate Public School System in Meridian, Mississippi (1979-1985). In addition to his duties and responsibilities as Director of Bands, he served as the Director of the Navy Chapel Choir at the Naval Air Station in Meridian, MS. He left his duties in Meridian to accept the position as Director of Bands at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, where he remained for eight years (1985-1992). Following his appointment at Campbell, Dr. Jackson served as Director of Bands at Garrett Middle School for five years (1993-1998). In addition to the annual G.M.E.A. performance evaluations, his bands have been awarded numerous superior ratings at regional, state, and international music festivals and competitions. In addition to his duties and responsibilities at K.S.U., Dr. Jackson maintains an active performance career on the trumpet. He frequently performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles throughout the Metro Atlanta area and has performed throughout Florida, Mississippi, and Illinois.
Dr. Jackson began his first college music courses in 1969 at the Miami-Dade Junior College in Miami, Florida. He transferred his college credits from M.D.J.C. and earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1979), and studied conducting with Dr. Joe Barry Mullins. He received the Master of Science degree in Music Education from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1984). While at Illinois, Dr. Jackson studied trumpet with recording artist David Hickman and was a conducting student of Dr. Harry Begian. He also performed as a member of the University of Illinois Band under the Direction of Dr. Begian. In 1994, Dr. Jackson earned his Education Specialist degree in Instrumental Music Education from Georgia State University and studied trumpet with Dr. Steve Winick, and was a conducting student of Jim Curnow. His Specialist thesis was titled: The Effects of Participation in High School Instrumental Music Ensembles On Adult Musical Activity and Musical Preference. The Doctor of Musical Arts degree was completed in 2008 at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. Dr. Jackson's dissertation was titled: Effectiveness of Preservice Experience and Course Work in Music Education toward Teacher Self-Efficacy in Classroom Management. He has served as guest conductor for the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony at Emory University. He has served as a guest conductor/clinician for several concert bands and honor bands at the high school and middle school levels in the Greater Atlanta area. In addition to his conducting appointments, he has served as a trumpet clinician for both middle and high school trumpet sections. He has served on the staff for the Music for All (B.O.A.) Summer Symposium from 2007 through 2019 presenting a series of clinics at Illinois State University and Ball State University. In December of 2018, Dr. Richard Crain, President of the Midwest Board of Directors, invited Dr. Jackson to serve as a clinician at the 2018 Midwest Clinic in Chicago to speak on the topic of Performance Preparation for Middle School and Young Bands.
As part of the D.M.A. degree, Dr. Jackson was a trumpet student of Mark Hughes (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) and a conducting student of Dr. Scott Stewart (Emory University). As a performing member and Vice-President of the Cobb Wind Symphony, Dr. Jackson was among the Cobb Wind Symphony members recently awarded the Sudler Silver Scroll, North America's most prestigious award for community concert bands. He performed in the trumpet section with the Cobb Wind Symphony at the 2003 and 2011 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Jackson's professional and honorary affiliations include G.M.E.A., M.E.N.C., P.A.G.E., Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Kappa Delta Pi, and an Honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma.
Awards and Recognition
- Dr. Jackson was one of only two music educators selected in 1991 by the Southern Bell company in the State of Georgia to study with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mstislav Rostropovich, for ten days during their residency in central Florida.
- Nationally Registered Music Educator (MENC, 1991);
- Nationally Certified Music Educator (MENC, 1991);
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers (1991);
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers (1996);
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2002);
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2003);
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers, (2005-2006);
- Teacher of the Year, Garrett Middle School (1997-98)
- Teacher of the Year, Dodgen Middle School (2004-2005);
- Recognized with a Congressional Proclamation which was read before the Georgia State Congress for being named a Georgia STAR teacher.
- The Dodgen Band Program was given international recognition through an interview with Dr. Jackson which was published in the Instrumentalist Magazine (August 2005).
- The Dodgen Band Program was recognized by the Mark of Excellence National Wind Band Honors in the spring of 2008, the only music ensemble in Georgia to receive this honor!
- In the spring of 2013, he was one of 217 music educators selected as a quarterfinalist for the Music Educator Award conferred by the Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation. In total, more than 30,000 nominations were submitted from all 50 states which included Music Educators involved with of Choral, Orchestra, and Band from all educational levels, elementary through college. There were only 12 of the 217 from the State of Georgia.
- In 2019, recognized with the Olin G. Parker Leadership Award for Georgia's Province 33 of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, the oldest and largest professional music fraternity in the world.
He served as the Guest Clinician/Conductor for the Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble's Annual Trumpet Festival held at Emory University 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Dr. Jackson served the Georgia Music Educators Association from 2002 through 2004 as Chairman for District XII, a position overseeing all public and private schools in Cobb and Douglas counties (over 24,000 music students) and served two years on the State Board of Directors for the Georgia Music Educator's Association. Dr. Jackson has served as the Vice-President of the Cobb Wind Symphony and served on the National Brass Symposium Advisory Board.
Publications
His recent eBook titled The Band Director's Book of Secrets published through the C.L. Barnhouse Publishing Company is now available as of October 2017. Yamaha's December 2017 issue of SupportED featured an article By Dr. Jackson that focused on sight-reading. He is one of the principal authors for Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Band published in 2014 through G.I.A.
Dr. Jackson was born in Miami, Florida, and lived the first 18 years of his life in the City of Hialeah, a northwestern suburb of Miami. He attended Amelia Earhart Elementary School, Hialeah Jr. High School, and Hialeah Sr. High school. He lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi while attending the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Jackson is married to the former Jane M. Sykes of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and they will celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary in August of 2022. They have four children, Mary (38), Vincent (37), Stephen (34), and Angela (23). They have one grandchild, Kasper (9 years old). Mrs. Jackson currently serves as Director of Music at St. Peter Chanel Roman Catholic Church in Roswell, GA. Dr. & Mrs. Jackson currently reside in Acworth, GA.
