
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 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.