2025 OMEA Professional Development Conference

02/06/2025 - 02/08/2025
In-Person Event

Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland
300 Lakeside Ave
Cleveland, OH



Clinic Details

Saturday, February 8

8:00 am – 9:00 am CST

Inspiring Hope In Our Students and Ourselves

Peggy Rakas

Join Peggy Rakas, positive psychology life coach and music educator, to explore ways to remain hopeful and grateful during challenging times. This humor-filled session will examine researched tools from positive psychology that we can use to provide a brighter path forward for both our students and ourselves. We will also explore music that can reignite our optimism, inspire our students, and remind us how fortunate we are to be music educators.


Clinician Details

Peggy Rakas

Peggy Rakas

Peggy Rakas is a lifelong educator who taught instrumental music in the North Merrick Schools on Long Island and is now an adjunct professor of music education at Hofstra University. She is the founder of Teaching Positivity – an organization that provides positive psychology workshops for educators across Long Island. She is a certified Optimize Life Coach specializing in positive psychology.