Janwin Overstreet-Goode

Student Teaching Supervisor

Janwin Overstreet-Goode   currently serves as a secondary choral music consultant, following 36 years as a high school choir director. She taught for 13 years, from 2004-2017, at Friendswood High School. In 2008, the FHS Campus Singers were a TMEA Invited Performing Choir. Ms. Overstreet-Goode also served as music director of the school’s annual musical. The school’s production of “South Pacific” received the Tommy Tune Award for Best Musical in 2006, and the award for Best Musical Directon for “Oklahoma” in 2010, and “Les Miserables” in 2017. Choirs at Friendswood performed with Houston Baptist University, Lamar University, the Bay Area Chorus, and were twice invited to sing at the University of Houston’s HS Invitational (2007 and 2016.)  She was twice recognized by Friendswood ISD as “Making a Difference:” in 2009 and 2017.   

Prior to joining the faculty at FHS, she taught at Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena, TX; the 2001 SRHS Chorale Women were selected to perform for the Texas Music Educators Association. She taught at Langham Creek HS and Dobie HS prior to teaching at Sam Rayburn. Her choirs were consistent Sweepstakes and superior ratings recipients at the University Interscholastic League contests and were named Best in Class at contests in Florida, Louisiana, California and Texas.  

Overstreet-Goode served as Vocal Division Vice-President, President-Elect, President and Past President of the Texas Music Educators Association from 2011-2016.  She also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Texas Choral Directors Association from 2007-2009 and was the conductor/clinician of the 2006 Kentucky All-State Women’s Choir. She was honored by the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Fidelity Future Stage as the 2008 Outstanding Music Educator in the Field of Choral Music. Overstreet-Goode was a collaborator on two sight-reading books: SMART-Sight-reading Made Accessible, Readable, Teachable; and SMART-Modulations.