Stephen T. McClard

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Stephen McClard has been the Director of Bands at Bolivar High School since 2002.  Mr. McClard graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1990.  He started his teaching career in Southeast Missouri before moving to Illinois where he taught band for 8 years. 

Mr. McClard's bands have consistently received superior ratings at contest as well as many other awards and accolades.  Since 2002, the band has traveled twice to Chicago, where they won 1st place class 4A and 1st place overall at the Midwest Music In the Parks Festival.  The band also traveled to Cincinnati in 2006, receiving the same honors. 

In 2006, Mr. McClard was named by SBO Magazine as one of the 50 Directors Who Make a Difference.  In 2006, 2008 and 2009, Bolivar RI School district was named one of the "Best 100 Communities for Music Education" in America by the American Music Conference.   Mr. McClard was previously featured on the cover of the 2003 issue of SBO Magazine for his work with music technology.

In addition to his career in education, Mr. McClard maintains an online woodworking business and is a 3rd generation piano technician.  His woodworking creations include custom bass guitars, which have sold all over the world and one-of-a-kind computer desks made from old pianos.  His piano desks have been featured in magazines such as Business 2.0 and Piano Technicians Journal and in many other newspapers and television news features.  

His first book, The Superior Educator, A Calm and Assertive Approach to Classroom Management and Large Group Motivation, is  available on Amazon as well as other book outlets.