Nominate your school music teacher for the Mary V. Dodge Award for Outstanding Music
in the Schools and Win 100 concert tickets for your class to attend PYP's Spring Concert.

 

Pictured above: Mary V. Dodge teaching her first orchestra, the Harney County Sagebrush Symphony Orchestra from 1912-1917.
Later she moved to Portland to conduct the Irvington School Orchestra.

PYP invites you to nominate your school music teacher and their outstanding program of training future musicians and audiences for the public recognition it deserves. Does your school music teacher inspire students? Do they build community? Do they encourage and instill excellence and dedication? Then nominate your school music teacher for the first Mary V. Dodge Award for Outstanding Music in the Schools.

This long overdue award is named after PYP’s founder, a music teacher from Portland’s Irvington School, who created the forerunner of today’s PYP with the most advanced students in her orchestra class. Because back then, just as it is today, it all starts in the schools.

The winning school will receive 100 free tickets for the winning teacher and their students to PYP’s Spring Concert on May 1, 2010 in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Submissions must be received no later than Friday, March 19th. Winning school will be notified by the week of April 5th.

CLICK HERE and nominate your school music teacher today!
Required information: your name, your phone number (for prize notification), your school name, and teacher name. Why do you want to nominate your teacher for this award? (Things to consider: what is your classroom environment like? What creative, unique, or valuable things does your teacher incorporate into their teaching? Do they involve others in teaching? How do they encourage learning from all students?)