Charlottesville orchestra teacher uses hip hop to engage students
Charlottesville orchestra teacher uses hip hop to engage students By Riley Wyant | May 11, 2021 at 8:53 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 8:53 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - An orchestra teacher in Charlottesville has found a unique way to engage hundreds of students both in the classroom and on social media.
Walker Upper Elementary Teacher Emily Waters is mixing strings and hip hop beats to make music class more relevant. She won the 2021 James Madison University graduate school innovation award for her work on a new method book to help orchestra teachers across the country utilize hip hop in their classrooms.
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Undaunted by the pandemic and the challenges of celebrating while adhering to mass gathering guidelines, East Carolina University s homecoming committee has developed a week of events aimed at entertaining Pirates both on campus and elsewhere.
After plans for homecoming were postponed in the fall, the committee went back to the drawing board, said Emily Waters, advisor to the student homecoming committee. Before the winter break, they developed plans for two homecoming options one virtual and one hybrid/virtual. As the spring semester started, the hybrid option was developed and a new name was chosen: Home Sweet Homecoming.