It is a great feeling when a member of your community is presented with an award
but that great feeling increases when it is a member that works so closely with
our children. Hanna Flewelling, orchestra and band instructor at Windham High School
was recently presented with the Maine New Music Educator of the Year Award this past month
at the President's Reception of the Maine Music Educators Conference at the
University of Maine.
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| Nancy Cash-Cobb, Richard Nickerson, Hanna Flewelling, Rose Underfofler, Morgan Riley celebrate Flewelling's award |
Each year The Maine Music
Educators Association (MMEA) awards a teacher with no more than five years of
teaching experience with this award. “The award recognizes an educator who
shows outstanding potential and is already making a difference,” said Richard
Nickerson, Director of Choral Activities at the Windham High School. The teacher
then has to be nominated by a member of the MMEA or by an administrator.
Flewelling demonstrated all
these qualities and did so with flair. “Since arriving at Windham High School, Hanna has shown an
infectious enthusiasm towards teaching,” said Nickerson. “The numbers for orchestra have doubled in
the past 4 years.” Nickerson presented Flewelling with this award at the MMEA
conference.
Flewelling, who has been the orchestra
instructor at the high school, recently took on the role of band instructor following
the retirement of the previous long-time band instructor. While taking on this
additional role, Flewelling has thrived and is making a difference in the high
school students she works with everyday along with the younger students as well. “She is a team player who always puts the
needs of her students first,” said Nickerson.
Congratulations,
Hanna! Thank you for your hard work for the students of RSU 14.
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