Like some of the songs she gets her students to play, University of Tennessee alumna Kelly Ballard has a naturally upbeat way of discussing her life and current job as a music and band teacher at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga.
She has been able to grow the number of band and orchestra participants at the independent girls’ school in her nearly three years there, she said, and she enjoys her teaching colleagues.
“I work with amazing people,” she said. “I love coming to work every day.”…