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HIGH SCHOOL
Middle School
Powell Elementary
The North Baltimore staff have selected Alivia DeLancy as Student of the Month for February. Academically, she excels in the classroom with a 3.64, has received academic honors the last three years, and was a BVC All-Academic recipient in cross-country last fall.
Outside of the classroom, Alivia is extremely involved in her school. She is a four-year member of cross-country where she served as captain her senior year and was a three-time second team All-BVC runner. She has also participated in track, basketball, softball, student council, Paws For a Cause, and National Honors Society.
In addition to athletics, Alivia demonstrates a passion for the arts on a daily basis. She has participated in band, choir, and drama club every year since seventh grade. During her time in band Alivia was a squad leader for three years and drum major her senior year. In her role as drum major she did an outstanding job teaching marching fundamentals, conducting the National Anthem, and helping the director with various tasks throughout the season. She was also a trumpet soloist this year in both pep band and jazz band. This past November she performed Taps at the Veterans Day Assembly and sang the National Anthem at a recent basketball game. More impressively, to ensure that younger band students receive all the help they need, she volunteers every Wednesday morning to play along with the Powell 5th grade trumpet section. On January 28, Alivia received a Superior rating (highest rating possible) on both her vocal and trumpet solos at the Ohio Music Education Association Solo/Ensemble contest at Lake High School. With this generous amount of dedication to the arts department it’s no wonder why Alivia was voted President of Tri-M Music Honors Society this school year.
While working with Alivia, one can instantly tell she has a great sense of humor, she pays attention to detail, works extremely hard, and takes criticism well. Next fall, Alivia will major in Exercise Science and minor in Music at Tiffin University where she will continue in both band and choir. She has been an absolute joy to have as a band student and will be a tremendous success no matter where life takes her. Because of her attitude, accolades, and dedication to her community, North Baltimore High School is pleased to name Alivia DeLancy as its February Student of the Month.
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Emily Meyerson, the K-12 Music and Drama Educator for North Baltimore Local Schools, isn’t afraid to try anything to improve her program. “I came into an established program in 2010, where things had been done a certain way for so long, and I was too green to immediately shake things up,” she says. “After I had a couple of years under my belt and gained a little confidence, I knew that major change was necessary in order for this program to thrive.”
Meyerson started with a huge revamp of the middle school program. “I went from 50 kids in the middle school choir to seven, which was terrifying,” she says. “I leaned on my administration for support, and the elementary principal at the time suggested the creation of an elementary show choir as a feeder program.”
Over the next several years, her numbers grew and she started to see the fruits of her labor. Meyerson now has a strong middle and high school choir program, and she continues to use the elementary show choir as a great feeder program to get strong singers involved early.
Another change she made was switching her pedagogy to Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), a concept the art teacher introduced her to that focuses on:
• What do artists do? The child is the artist. The classroom is the child’s studio.
Meyerson and the art teacher took the plunge together and incorporated this new methodology. “Switching to a TAB pedagogy completely revitalized my classroom, the way I teach and my students,” she says.
When students come into her music class, they begin with a mini-lesson or demo that usually lasts about five to seven minutes, then they are free to explore and create in whatever ways they want, within certain guidelines. “In the visual art world, TAB studios are offered by medium so you might have drawing, painting and sculpture studios,” she explains. “In music, I wanted to do the same thing, offering the same type of choices. Some of my favorite studios are boomwhackers, keyboards, ukuleles, electric guitars, electric drums, note knacks, electronic music (on iPads) and the recording studio that my custodians built for me in the back of my classroom.”
Meyerson acts as facilitator, helping students work through whatever problems that may arise as they work toward project completion of their choice. “Sometimes, it’s absolutely chaotic, and at any given time, instead of creating one lesson plan for a whole class, I could be working on 25 different things with 25 students,” she laughs. “We’ve got things in place to help with that though, including a check-in system with specific points they need to touch base with me, and a list of questions to keep them thinking, reflecting and acting like musicians.”
Meyerson also created a swing choir to push and stretch students who were ready for a bigger challenge, as well as a high school guitar program to reach students who weren’t in choir or band or those who wanted additional musical outlets. She started with a two-level class, Guitar I in the fall and Guitar II in the spring. It was a huge success and soon Guitar III was added, followed by Guitar IV this year. “I am super excited about this new course! It features more advanced guitar techniques, electric bass and culminates with a final project that will be writing, recording and producing an original song,” she says.
https://hub.yamaha.com/music-educators/40-under-40/2023/40-under-40-2023/
Emily Meyerson, the K-12 Music and Drama Educator for North Baltimore Local Schools, isn’t afraid to try anything to improve her program. “I came into an established program in 2010, where things had been done a certain way for so long, and I was too green to immediately shake things up,” she says. “After I had a couple of years under my belt and gained a little confidence, I knew that major change was necessary in order for this program to thrive.”
Meyerson started with a huge revamp of the middle school program. “I went from 50 kids in the middle school choir to seven, which was terrifying,” she says. “I leaned on my administration for support, and the elementary principal at the time suggested the creation of an elementary show choir as a feeder program.”
Over the next several years, her numbers grew and she started to see the fruits of her labor. Meyerson now has a strong middle and high school choir program, and she continues to use the elementary show choir as a great feeder program to get strong singers involved early.
Another change she made was switching her pedagogy to Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), a concept the art teacher introduced her to that focuses on:
• What do artists do? The child is the artist. The classroom is the child’s studio.
Meyerson and the art teacher took the plunge together and incorporated this new methodology. “Switching to a TAB pedagogy completely revitalized my classroom, the way I teach and my students,” she says.
When students come into her music class, they begin with a mini-lesson or demo that usually lasts about five to seven minutes, then they are free to explore and create in whatever ways they want, within certain guidelines. “In the visual art world, TAB studios are offered by medium so you might have drawing, painting and sculpture studios,” she explains. “In music, I wanted to do the same thing, offering the same type of choices. Some of my favorite studios are boomwhackers, keyboards, ukuleles, electric guitars, electric drums, note knacks, electronic music (on iPads) and the recording studio that my custodians built for me in the back of my classroom.”
Meyerson acts as facilitator, helping students work through whatever problems that may arise as they work toward project completion of their choice. “Sometimes, it’s absolutely chaotic, and at any given time, instead of creating one lesson plan for a whole class, I could be working on 25 different things with 25 students,” she laughs. “We’ve got things in place to help with that though, including a check-in system with specific points they need to touch base with me, and a list of questions to keep them thinking, reflecting and acting like musicians.”
Meyerson also created a swing choir to push and stretch students who were ready for a bigger challenge, as well as a high school guitar program to reach students who weren’t in choir or band or those who wanted additional musical outlets. She started with a two-level class, Guitar I in the fall and Guitar II in the spring. It was a huge success and soon Guitar III was added, followed by Guitar IV this year. “I am super excited about this new course! It features more advanced guitar techniques, electric bass and culminates with a final project that will be writing, recording and producing an original song,” she says.