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MUSIC and ART Begins October 12, Thanks to Your Direct Investment!
Welcome Dr. Gwendolyn McGraw who will be teaching our K-3rd grade PTA sponsored Choral Music Program! Dr. Gwen currently teaches and provides oversight of preservice teachers’ (General Music K-5) preparation for the state-required PACT portfolio submissions at UCLA. She recently retired from administrative/faculty position at USC to continue research on developmental psychoacoustics (with implications for audio-media); to compose, arrange, and record research-based music and multimedia for children; and to conduct research on cognition, music experience, and singing voice development in infancy, early childhood, and primary grades. Dr. Gwen was an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Music Education at USC, an Associate professor and Coordinator of Music Education at CSU, Sacramento, and a lecturer and Associate Conductor of International Children’s Choir at Emory University. She has taught students of all ages from Tallahassee, Florida to Los Angeles, California. We are very honored and excited to have her join PDMSS.
Welcome back to Mrs. Amy Loch, Choral Music Director of Malibu High School, who will be leading our 4th and 5th grade PTA sponsored Choral Music Program! Mrs. Loch earned her Bachelors in Music Education from the University of Nebraska Lincoln with an emphasis in vocal music and a minor in dance in 2002. While attending UNL she was a member of the University Singers, a large mixed choral ensemble and the Scarlet and Cream Singers, the University's show choir. She taught vocal music and dance in Nebraska for three years before relocating to North Carolina where she taught vocal music and theatre at Northwood High School in Pittsboro, North Carolina. While in North Carolina she was a member of the Duke Chapel Choir and sang with the Durham Vocal Ensemble. She moved to the Los Angeles area in April with husband Jeremy who works for School-Link Technologies in Santa Monica.
Welcome back to Ms. Joanne Horton is a ceramic/fine artist living and working in Granada Hills, CA. She holds a BFA degree in Ceramics/Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design. Since graduating, she has worked in several aspects of the ceramic industry, specializing in the creation of custom tile and restoration of vintage tile for historic buildings. In 1998, she and her husband, Rich Mudge founded Creative Fire Studio, an art studio dedicated to bringing ceramic and art classes to elementary and middle schools over four school districts.
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Please join the 53% percent of PDMSS families who have chosen to make an investment in all of our students. Participate in the Direct Investment Campaign today. Your 100% tax- deductible donation allows us to ensure a stable, high-quality education for our children. It will take every family’s involvement in order for the PTA to achieve our aggressive fundraising goal - 100% is our goal.
Direct Investment Grade Level Participation Percentage Breakdown
Kindergarten - 49%
Grade 1 - 57%
Grade 2 - 64%
Grade 3 - 66%
Grade 4 - 43%
Grade 5 - 37%
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Thank you to the following 105 families for their investments:
Aldrich Family, Alexander Family, Anawalt Family, Annis Family, Barish Family, Barton Family, Bode Family, Boland Family, Brosnan Family, Brufsky Family, Burger Family, Carrola-Landry Family, Carson Family, Chartoff Family, Cloete Family, Cohen Family, Cole Family, Cook Family, Day Family, DeMeritt Family, Dempsey Family, DeStefano Family, deVarennes Family, Dion Family, Ekman Family, Embiricos Family, Errico Family, Farrer Family, Finn Family, Fox Family, Gerber-Crawford Family, Gonzalez Family, Gordon Family, Goudzwaard Family, Graham Family, Griffin Family, Hack Family, Haines Family, Hamilton Family, Harrer Family, Hernandez Family, Herz Family, Holmes Family, Kevin & Samantha Hughes Family, Jenkins Family, Junger Family, Kassoy Family, Kennedy-Bailey Family, King Family, Kish Family, Kline Family, Krawczyk Family, Lamont Family, Lanier Family, Lehman Family, Lewis Family, Loftus Family, Longo Family, Mankoff Family, Mark Family, Martin Family, Martinez Family, Mason Family, Mastrippolito Family, Mazzarella Family, McDonnell Family, McKeever Family, McNulty Family, Ken & Janice Miller Family, Motavasselan Family, Nanula Family, Nathan Family, Nokes Family, O’Connor Family, Panzer Family, Christian & Sheryn Payne Family, Perey Family, Pernice Family, Peterson Family, Picard Family, Pinkett Family, Putterman Family, Rapf Family, Ray Family, Rondell Family, Rosen Family, Ross Family, Roth Family, Rubenstein Family, Schaar Family, Sheridan Family, Simonian Family, Norton & Kim Smith Family, Spiner Family, Stack Family, Stockwell Family, Strickland Family, Swindal Family, Szczepanik Family, Tarlow Family, Taylor Family, Thonson Family, Woglom Family, Wolfsdorf Family, Zuckerman Family
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Family therapist Susan Stiffelman will be speaking to parents at PDMSS on Wednesday, October 28th at 8:30 am. She'll be discussing how to: