Zander values the creation of learning communities that provide professional opportunities for students and educators in the areas of performance and music education. 15年来, 她主持了Avenues: 探索乐队和爵士方法, 每年夏季在布兰登大学举办的专业发展研讨会. She is 教师 Advisor for the Brandon University Student Music Educators Association (BUSMEA), an organization that designs and delivers the annual Da Capo professional development conference. 除了, 她曾在学区和省级音乐教育会议上做过演讲, 全国大学乐队总监协会区域会议, 和中西部诊所.
Zander是马尼托巴9-12年级音乐课程框架的主要作者, publishes in the journal Canadian Winds and has been a regular contributor to the publication and recording series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band and Teaching Music Through Performance in Beginning Band. A former president of the Manitoba Band Association (MBA) and Canadian Band Association (CBA), she is both an Educational Clinician with the Conn-Selmer Division of Education and a Teaching Affiliate with Brandon University’s Centre for Teaching, 学习, 和技术. 致力于卓越的音乐教育, 在攻读研究生之前,詹德教授乐队和普通初级音乐. 一个萨克斯, she holds the Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from Brandon University and completed a Master of Music in instrumental conducting at the University of North Dakota with Gordon Brock and James Popejoy. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas where she served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate and Teaching Fellow in the Wind Studies Department with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. She completed her cognate studies in Music Education with Deborah Rohwer and Darhyl Ramsey.
Zander调查了与排练和学习相关的领域, 指挥和器乐文学作为做事的有意义的来源, 知道, 以及音乐课堂上的理解. She is presently eng年龄d in research related to the Wind Recording projects of her mentor, Corporon. Zander has been awarded Brandon University 校友 Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as the Manitoba Band Association’s Award of Distinction and Canadian Band Association’s National Band Award. 温蒂住在曼尼托巴省的布兰登,她的两个儿子罗里和安德斯都是音乐制作人.