Debbie Rawlins
Debbie Rawlins, MME
Adjunct Professor of Music Education
School of Music, 321 | 936.294.3427 | dhr001@shsu.edu
Division | Music Education
Debbie Rawlins, Adjunct Professor of Studies in Music for Children at Sam Houston State University, graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Music Education with Elementary Certification and a Masters of Music Education. She taught in the Texas public schools for 29 years including Lubbock I.S.D., Bryan I.S.D., Lexington I.S.D., LaPorte I.S.D., Spring Branch I.S.D., and Spring I.S.D. She has had experience in classrooms as a classroom grade-level teacher, music specialist (K-5), middle school general music teacher, and high school choir director. She has had numerous student teachers from Sam Houston State University, University of Houston, Baylor University, and Texas Tech University.
Mrs. Rawlins has been a clinician, in 2017 and 2018, for the Houston Area Suzuki Piano Teachers Association Workshop, teaching music and movement to ages 4 through 18 and a clinician in 2018 for the Area 9 Handbell Convention, teaching the workshop entitled Handchimes for Elementary Through Middle School. She has certification levels in Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly methods and has also been affiliated, as piano accompanist, with the Spring Branch Girls’ Choirs and as a lead teacher for the Spring I.S.D Honor Choir. She was also the lead teacher of the elementary students’ performance for the Texas Association of Superintendents and Administrators Convention in 2003.
From 1990 to 2006, Mrs. Rawlins directed 4th and 5th grade choirs and handchimes groups at Memorial Drive Christian Church in Houston, Tx, at Hirsch Elem and Salyers Elem in Spring I.S.D. While affiliated with Spring I.S.D., she received the coveted Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award and Teacher of the Year Award. She has also conducted New Music Teacher Inservices and has been an Elementary Music Consultant for the district. Formerly an oboist, she has taught privately in Lubbock and Bryan, Tx and has performed with the Roswell Symphony, Midland-Odessa Symphony, and the Brazos Valley Symphony.
Her affiliations have included Phi Delta Kappa, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Retired Teachers Association, and the Handbell Musicians of America. Believing that volunteer work is extremely important, she has been President, Vice-President, and President-Designate of the Spring High School Band Boosters. Mrs. Rawlins spent 19 years as the Coordinator of the Spring High School Splashtown Music Festival. She is currently the Chairperson for the 85 booth Dickens on Cypress Creek Christmas Market at Cypress Creek Christian Church. Mrs. Rawlins is a volunteer assistant for the Music Ministry at Cypress Creek Christian Church where she also teaches Pre-school through 5th Grade Sunday School, works with the Children’s Choir, and is a member of the Disci-Bells and Chalice Handbell groups. Mrs. Rawlins also sings with the Cypress Creek Community Chorale and is Vice-Chair of the CCCC General Board.