Local Educator Judith Scharnberg Inducted to California Music Education Association Hall of Fame
This is a press release from the Humboldt County Office of Education:
Judith Scharnberg, a retired music teacher from the Fortuna School District, was recently inducted to the California Music Education Association (CMEA) Hall of Fame, honoring a lifetime achievement in music education. This is the highest award given by the CMEA.
Judi has been a music teacher for over forty years working abroad in Canada, Israel, Thailand, and throughout the U.S. in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and New Mexico. For the last nineteen years, she has taught in Fortuna and calls Humboldt County her home.
She is a graduate of State University of New York – Potsdam, where she received her BA in Music Education, Harvard University for a Masters of Arts in Teaching Humanities and an Orff Certification from University of Denver.
Ms. Scharnberg has the most fun when making music with young people. While teaching in Rohnerville Schools, she directed a fifth grade musical each year based on American history curriculum, in which every student participated. After school, ensembles frequently performed in the community and her performing groups consistently received ratings of excellent and superior. She has mentored over half a dozen student teachers and several teachers in their first years as part of the Beginning Teacher Support program.
In addition, Ms. Scharnberg has served as festival organizer and adjudicator, held many North Coast Section offices, including Section President for four years, as well as offices for the Rohnerville schoolteachers association.
She states, “I believe that passionate teaching coupled with reflection on how to be a better teacher each day and with each group of students, makes being a music teacher on the North Coast the most worthwhile job I could ever have.”
Former administrator Tim Parisi shares, “Judi motivated her students to be not only the best they could be, but better than the best they could be. She did this for her students by motivating them through inspirational teaching that included modeling and instilling self-discipline. She was the most organized music teacher, indeed one of the most organized individuals, I ever encountered during my administrative career.”
She presented at the CMEA State Music Education Conference on “Music and the Brain” this year, in addition to receiving her honor.
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Congratulations! How lucky to have had her here for so long.
Yes, Congratulations, Judith.
Music sets man free.
🕯👍🏾👍🏾👑
That’s really cool! Congratulations, Keep Music and Arts alive in the school system!
Well deserved
Wow! Really wow great teacher keeping music arts alive and passing the torch on to teachers and kids!!! Playing music is the best thing you can do for your brain!!! Blessings!!!
DEAR JUDI,
Congratulations. We are proud to have such an accomplished music educator in the family.
We will copy and read it to Maeluise.
Love
Julia and Gerald