By Angel Carpenter
EUGENE, OR – Louise Kienzle, music teacher at Humbolt Elementary
School in Canyon City, has won a state music education award.
She received a plaque for the 2011 Excellence in Elementary
Music Education Award on Jan. 15, at the Oregon Music Educators
Association State Conference in Eugene.
Kienzle teaches music to grades kindergarten through fifth at
Humbolt.
“It always feels good to be acknowledged for what you do,” she
said, “but I don’t feel like I do more than other teachers. All
teachers put in extra efforts to help their kids. I feel that my
job is to expose them to lots of different kinds of music and ways
that music is expressed.”
Children taught by Kienzle at Humbolt do have a variety of
musical opportunities, including performing in the yearly Dr. Seuss
Day musical event in March and the Voices for Africa program in
April last year. Kienzle was instrumental in bringing the
world-renowned musical group Synergy to Humbolt last April and she
also directs the annual Christmas program.
Kienzle introduces a new song to her students weekly, each
one featuring a different genre of music.
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