Publications
September 2, 2020 - Boundaries for the 20/21 School Year
Crystal Pridmore shares her perspective and practical tips for creating boundaries in work/life balance for music teachers in a challenging school year.
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March 18, 2020 - 7 Self Care Tips for Quarantined Music Teachers
Crystal Pridmore and Zoe Kumagai share self care tips with the Orff Schulwerk community as we enter into a new season for everyone.
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March 17, 2020 - How to Create Virtual Lessons for Music Teachers
Crystal Pridmore wrote a quick start guide for music teachers scrambling to create their first virtual lessons during the COVID-19 nationwide school closures. View the Guide Here.
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March 8, 2020 - Crystal Pridmore on KUSI with SDYS
The San Diego Youth Symphony will honor Crystal Pridmore on Sunday, March 15 at 1:00 and 6:00 during their concerts at Copley Symphony Hall with the Profiles in Music Education Award.
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February 24, 2020 - SDYS Profiles in Music Ed
Mrs. Pridmore is a recipient of the 24th annual Profiles in Music Education Award presented by the San Diego Youth Symphony.
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January 29, 2020 - The Music for Every School Foundation
Mrs. Pridmore is proud to join the Music for Every School Foundation as an ambassador
Their mission is the be a resource to put music education back into every school in the United States.
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December 12, 2019 - Pridmore Named 2020 CMEA SBS Elementary Specialist Fortissimo Recipient
Honoring Imperial Valley and San Diego County Music Educators, Industry Leaders and School Administrators for exceptional work in music education.
The Fortissimo Awards are selected through an open nomination process, followed by a selection process from the CMEA-SBS Executive Board.
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December 6, 2019 - Pridmore Still in Running for Grammy
Allied Gardens resident Crystal Pridmore is still in the running to win a Music Educator Grammy Award.
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October 31, 2019 - Education Advocate: Crystal Pridmore
GRAMMY Music Educator Award Semifinalist teaches at Chula Vista School.
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October 26, 2019 - KUSI Features Crystal LIVE on Good Morning San Diego
Hunter Sowards @HunterSowardsKUSI @HunterSowards @HunterSowards3, at KUSI, followed up with Crystal Pridmore in studio at KUSI on Good Morning San Diego on Saturday morning.
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October 23, 2019 - Elementary school music director is a semifinalist for GRAMMY Music Educator Award
Hunter Sowards @HunterSowardsKUSI @HunterSowards @HunterSowards3, at KUSI, interviewed Crystal Pridmore in her classroom. Watch the video on the left!
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October 22, 2019 - Finney Music Director on a High Note
Finney's Crystal Pridmore Named GRAMMY Music Educator Award Semifinalist
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October 19, 2019 - Crystal Pridmore Presenting on Classroom Management for MEGA Arts Conference
Crystal Pridmore is presenting with 4 CVESD music teacher colleagues at the 2019 Arts Empower Mega Conference in Balboa Park on classroom management for teachers who process hundreds of students through their specialty classrooms. Special focus is given to practices that help students with special needs thrive.
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September 4, 2019- California Alliance for Arts Education
The California Alliance for Arts Education presents the results of research from the Chula Vista Arts Pilot Study with MUSE Research with this documentary short featuring Crystal Pridmore and colleagues at the Chula Vista Elementary School District.
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September 3, 2019 - Music Teacher Self Care
Article authored by Crystal Pridmore offering advice for how to avoid the cycle of stress that often accompanies the job of a music teacher. Published for members of the American Orff Schulwerk Association.
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August 9, 2019 - A Sound Education
The Mission Times Courier celebrates Crystal's status as a quarterfinalist for the 2020 GRAMMY Music Educator Award.
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July 12, 2019 - Music & Grit: How Music-Making Makes Us Tougher, Smarter, Braver, and More Resilient
How music education contributes to the development of confidence and perseverance in students, with contributing interviews from PLNU alumni in professional music fields, including Crystal Pridmore.
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March 7, 2019 - Peace Run Visits Finney
Sri Chinmoy Peace Run comes through Chula Vista and celebrates world peace with a visit to Finney Elementary. Mrs. Pridmore leads the students in songs of peace for the assembly.
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October 18, 2018 - Crystal Presenting Session for Social Media Advocacy at MEGA Arts Conference
In collaboration with CVESD VAPA Coordinator Lauren Shelton and arts teachers Jon Seligman and Sara Baldwin, Crystal Pridmore presented practical steps to using social media as an advocacy tool for arts education programs to San Diego County arts educators.
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June 1, 2018 - SAVE THE MUSIC + SOUND UNITED
Sound United announces a 4 year initiative with VH1 Save the Music to donate 10,000 instruments to schools. Finney Elementary School orchestra, under the direction of Crystal Pridmore, thanks Sound United and VH1 STM for our partnership.
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October 12, 2017 - Crystal presenting at MEGA Arts Conference with SDAOSA
Members of the San Diego American Orff Schulwerk Association presented active ways to engage elementary students of all ages to sing, say, move, and play their way in creative music and movement activities to arts educators from all over San Diego county. Crystal presented an activity for music that included computer coding connections.
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April 17, 2017 - The Case for Music Education Documentary Short
Created for the UCTV STEAM channel, this documentary short tells the story of Chula Vista Elementary School District's partnership with the San Diego Youth Symphony in bringing music education to every child during the school day. Mrs. Crystal Pridmore's general music class from Juarez Lincoln Elementary is featured at 3:17, 4:46, and 16:54.
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