The 2022-2023 school year is Ms. Neugent's 27th year of teaching and her tenth year at Colleyville Elementary School. Natalie Neugent hails from a family of educators and band directors and began her career as a junior high band director. She has also taught elementary music in H.E.B. and Arlington. Ms. Neugent began her musical training in dance and on the piano and then later played the bassoon, which she still enjoys playing for the students at CES!

Natalie has three dogs and has lived in Hurst for twenty years. Ms. Neugent enjoys walking, reading, gardening and playing handbells at First United Methodist Church of Hurst in her spare time.