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    The document summarizes new initiatives implemented by Meghan K. Major in North Brunswick from 2017-2019. Some of the key initiatives included creating a Select Choral Ensemble to perform more challenging music within the community, instituting new technological tools like a website and Remind app to improve communication, composing a new school song, and collaborating with other teachers on various projects. Meghan K. Major also attended professional development conferences, helped plan school events, and wrote new 2nd and 3rd grade general music curriculum.

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    The document summarizes new initiatives implemented by Meghan K. Major in North Brunswick from 2017-2019. Some of the key initiatives included creating a Select Choral Ensemble to perform more challenging music within the community, instituting new technological tools like a website and Remind app to improve communication, composing a new school song, and collaborating with other teachers on various projects. Meghan K. Major also attended professional development conferences, helped plan school events, and wrote new 2nd and 3rd grade general music curriculum.

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    The document summarizes new initiatives implemented by Meghan K. Major in North Brunswick from 2017-2019. Some of the key initiatives included creating a Select Choral Ensemble to perform more challenging music within the community, instituting new technological tools like a website and Remind app to improve communication, composing a new school song, and collaborating with other teachers on various projects. Meghan K. Major also attended professional development conferences, helped plan school events, and wrote new 2nd and 3rd grade general music curriculum.

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    Meghan K.

    Major
    106 Green Street Somerville, NJ 08876
    Phone: (908)-285-0524  E-Mail: [email protected]
    Portfolio: www.meghanmajor.weebly.com
    2019
    New Initiatives in North Brunswick

    • Creation of a Select Choral Ensemble


    o Purpose: to teach music that is more challenging
    o Encourage more performances within the community
    o Performances to date:
    ▪ Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration w/Livingston Park (2017-2019)
    ▪ Board of Education Meeting at Parsons (2018-2019)
    ▪ Patriots Game with Judd (2019)
    ▪ Music Café (2019)
    ▪ International Night (2019)
    • Instituted new technological assistance
    o Website: www.parsonschorus.com
    ▪ Includes:
    ▪ Music to practice with at home
    ▪ Schedules
    ▪ Copies of handouts
    o Remind App
    ▪ Communication with Select Choir and Chorus parents
    o Twitter Account for Parsons Music
    ▪ @MusicatParsons
    • New music rules & awards
    o New initiatives
    • Assisted in planning/execution of a pep rally at the beginning of the year
    o Powerpoint
    ▪ Included all staff members
    ▪ Shown at Back to School Night
    o Running assembly
    • Composed a new school song
    o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YqOGzaVmPDKK4omAq3ZmFcTSpJq2OArI/view?us
    p=sharing
    • Collaboration
    o Superhero videos
    ▪ Each month, collaborates with the Guidance Counselor to create a new promo
    video for the character education lesson each month
    ▪ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWkxQEMtKQtHo7QUzouNcVnXcCUsi2tK
    o Respect! Video (2017)
    ▪ Worked with a small committee of students and Guidance Counselor to bring to
    fruition a student idea
    o Music Careers
    ▪ 5th grade students worked on a small project using school-issued Chromebooks to
    research a career in the music industry and create a “Now Hiring” poster
    o Music Teachers within North Brunswick
    ▪ Assisted with the Summer Music Camp
    ▪ Joint performances with other chorus
    ▪ Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in North Brunswick with Livingston
    Park (2017-2019)
    Meghan K. Major
    106 Green Street Somerville, NJ 08876
    Phone: (908)-285-0524  E-Mail: [email protected]
    Portfolio: www.meghanmajor.weebly.com
    2019
    ▪ Star Spangled Banner at the Somerset Patriots (2019)
    ▪ Performed/composed two tunes with instrumental colleague
    ▪ Spring 2017
    ▪ Winter 2018
    • Committees
    o Sunshine - executive board
    o STEAM Night
    o Assisted with International Night
    o Yearbook
    • Winter Concert
    o Arranged a tune for combined band, strings and select choir
    o Assisted Select Choir in arranging an accompaniment to a tune using Orff instruments, hand
    drums and tambourines
    o Taught sign language
    o Collaborated with the PTO to sell Hot Chocolate at the winter concert
    • Tegy School Scheduling Institute 2019
    o Attended workshop with Principal and Vice Principal
    o Hosted by Rutgers Graduate School of Education
    • Professional Development
    o Hosted a course for newly written 2 & 3 Grade Curriculum
    o Attended New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference in February 2019
    o Attended a workshop in 2016 with clinician Denise Gagne
    • Curriculum
    o Wrote 2nd and 3rd grade curriculum for General Music in North Brunswick
    o Created digital resources for colleagues to assist with new curriculum

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