BRAVOS RING FOR SCHOOL GLENDALE HIGH LAUDED FOR TOP ARTS OFFERINGS.Byline: Brent Hopkins Staff Writer Glendale High School Glendale High School can refer to:
The 19th annual BRAVO Awards, given annually by the Education Division of the Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. of Los Angeles County, recognizes one school and two teachers for excellence in arts education. The winners were selected from among 73 nominees from 39 school districts throughout Southern California. Glendale's triumph elicited a hail of applause as co-principals Gloria Vasquez and Mike Livingston accepted the award at a gala dinner at Los Angeles' Regal Biltmore Hotel. ``The program has been strong for a long time, but I think we have a great combination of teachers now,'' said Vasquez. Glendale also won a $5,000 cash award, furnished by Robinsons-May Department Stores. In its quest for the prize, Glendale competed with 10 other schools from Los Angeles, Ventura and Riverside counties, including Canterbury Elementary Magnet School in Pacoima, Valley Presbyterian in North Hills and 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. Aspen Elementary of Thousand Oaks also was a finalist. Glendale won because of its intense dedication to student learning, said Lynda Jenner, producer of the awards. ``They had a rich arts program at all levels - dance, music, visual arts and drama. It was all very well thought out,'' Jenner said. The BRAVO Awards also recognize two teachers - an arts specialist and a generalist - for excellence in arts education. This year, the awards went to Fernando Pullum, a music teacher at Washington Preparatory High School George Washington Preparatory High School is a secondary school in the Westmont section of unincorporated Los Angeles County, California that is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It was founded in 1926. in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , and Paul Astin, a third-grade teacher at Moffet Elementary School in the Lennox Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. . Deborah Hanson, a kindergarten teacher at El Dorado School in the Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
When Hanson started teaching 10 years ago, there was no music program at El Dorado. She started a choral and music program and helped establish them at the district's other schools. She and another teacher also were instrumental in starting the district's Kids on Stage program in 1993, in which students from each school perform at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center every spring. The event helps raise funds for the Lancaster Education Foundation. Mack Dugger, a drama teacher at Glendale, said the students earned the award. ``My joy is going to be telling the kids tomorrow. They're going to come unglued un·glued adj. 1. Loosened or separated; unfastened. 2. Informal In confused distress; upset. Idiom: come unglued Informal To lose one's composure. .'' |
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