BRAVO EDUCATION SPECIALISTS HONORED.Byline: Tracy Zaborac Daily News Staff Writer Matthew McKagan, a music teacher at Lindero Canyon Middle School Lindero Canyon Middle School is a public middle school in suburban Agoura Hills, California. It is located west of Morrison Ranch district and north of Lake Lindero. It serves the entire city of Agoura Hills and is one of three middle schools of the Las Virgenes Unified School in Agoura Hills, took top honors Monday in the 17th Annual Bravo Awards for art education. Also honored at a reception at the Regal Biltmore Hotel Biltmore Hotel is the name of a hotel chain created by hotel magnate John McEntee Bowman. The name evokes the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore Estate, whose buildings and gardens within are privately owned historical landmarks and tourist attractions in Asheville, North in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. was the Buckley School, a private school in Sherman Oaks, which won out from among eleven Bravo school nominees. The school received a $2,500 cash award and each teacher received a $1,000 cash award. McKagan won the Arts Specialist Award for his work as a sixth- through eighth-grade music instructor and band director at the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. campus. He was chosen from a pool of 53 nominated teachers from 38 school districts in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Amy Ellison, a teacher from the San Bernardino City Unified School District The San Bernardino City Unified School District serves the Inland Empire in San Bernardino California. History The district was officially founded July 1st, 1964 when the San Bernardino City School District merged with the San Bernardino High School District. , was also honored as a winning educator. All three winners received a Bravo Award Sculpture. The Bravo Awards honor schools and educators that integrate the arts into all academic curricula. The Education Division of the Music Center of Los Angeles County hosts the awards through Club 100, its membership organization. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO At Monday's Bravo awards ceremony are, from left, Ellen Mahoney, Vincent Houser, Paul Horovitz, Joan Boyett, Louise Epstein and top honoree Matthew McKagan. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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