{"id":15288,"date":"2019-03-04T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=15288"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:46:18","slug":"pylusd-arts-coordinator-named-music-educator-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=15288","title":{"rendered":"PYLUSD arts coordinator named &#8220;Music Educator of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) Performing Arts Coordinator, Phil Mortensen, for being named &#8220;Music Educator of the Year&#8221; at the recent California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Awards Gala. Mr. Mortensen also serves as the Orchestra Director at Yorba Linda High School.<\/p>\n<p>According to CMEA,\u00a0the purposes of the association are to promote access to a sequential music education for all Pre-K through Grade 12 students taught by fully qualified music educators, to support and improve existing music programs, to promote quality pre-service and in-service music teacher preparation programs, and to create a greater awareness of the value of music education through partnerships with other associations and advocacy among state and local agencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Yorba-Linda-High-Phil-Mortensen-CMEA-Award-3-4-19-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15291\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Yorba-Linda-High-Phil-Mortensen-CMEA-Award-3-4-19-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Phil M at music conference.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Yorba-Linda-High-Phil-Mortensen-CMEA-Award-3-4-19-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Yorba-Linda-High-Phil-Mortensen-CMEA-Award-3-4-19-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Yorba-Linda-High-Phil-Mortensen-CMEA-Award-3-4-19-1.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) Performing Arts Coordinator, Phil Mortensen, for being named &#8220;Music Educator of the Year&#8221; at the recent California&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,15],"tags":[1694,1569,1532,1531,1505,1678,144],"class_list":["post-15288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-mustangs","tag-performing-arts","tag-placentia-yorba-linda-unified-school-district","tag-pylusd","tag-ylhs","tag-yorba-linda","tag-yorba-linda-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}