Meghan K.

Major
106 Green Street Somerville, NJ 08876
Phone: (908)-285-0524  E-Mail: meghankmajor@gmail.com
Portfolio: www.meghanmajor.weebly.com
2019
New Initiatives in North Brunswick

• Creation of a Select Choral Ensemble

o Purpose: to teach music that is more challenging
o Encourage more performances within the community
o Performances to date:
▪ Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration w/Livingston Park (2017-2019)
▪ Board of Education Meeting at Parsons (2018-2019)
▪ Patriots Game with Judd (2019)
▪ Music Café (2019)
▪ International Night (2019)
• Instituted new technological assistance
o Website: www.parsonschorus.com
▪ Includes:
▪ Music to practice with at home
▪ Schedules
▪ Copies of handouts
o Remind App
▪ Communication with Select Choir and Chorus parents
o Twitter Account for Parsons Music
▪ @MusicatParsons
• New music rules & awards
o New initiatives
• Assisted in planning/execution of a pep rally at the beginning of the year
o Powerpoint
▪ Included all staff members
▪ Shown at Back to School Night
o Running assembly
• Composed a new school song
o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YqOGzaVmPDKK4omAq3ZmFcTSpJq2OArI/view?us
p=sharing
• Collaboration
o Superhero videos
▪ Each month, collaborates with the Guidance Counselor to create a new promo
video for the character education lesson each month
▪ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWkxQEMtKQtHo7QUzouNcVnXcCUsi2tK
o Respect! Video (2017)
▪ Worked with a small committee of students and Guidance Counselor to bring to
fruition a student idea
o Music Careers
▪ 5th grade students worked on a small project using school-issued Chromebooks to
research a career in the music industry and create a “Now Hiring” poster
o Music Teachers within North Brunswick
▪ Assisted with the Summer Music Camp
▪ Joint performances with other chorus
▪ Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in North Brunswick with Livingston
Park (2017-2019)
Meghan K. Major
106 Green Street Somerville, NJ 08876
Phone: (908)-285-0524  E-Mail: meghankmajor@gmail.com
Portfolio: www.meghanmajor.weebly.com
2019
▪ Star Spangled Banner at the Somerset Patriots (2019)
▪ Performed/composed two tunes with instrumental colleague
▪ Spring 2017
▪ Winter 2018
• Committees
o Sunshine - executive board
o STEAM Night
o Assisted with International Night
o Yearbook
• Winter Concert
o Arranged a tune for combined band, strings and select choir
o Assisted Select Choir in arranging an accompaniment to a tune using Orff instruments, hand
drums and tambourines
o Taught sign language
o Collaborated with the PTO to sell Hot Chocolate at the winter concert
• Tegy School Scheduling Institute 2019
o Attended workshop with Principal and Vice Principal
o Hosted by Rutgers Graduate School of Education
• Professional Development
o Hosted a course for newly written 2 & 3 Grade Curriculum
o Attended New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference in February 2019
o Attended a workshop in 2016 with clinician Denise Gagne
• Curriculum
o Wrote 2nd and 3rd grade curriculum for General Music in North Brunswick
o Created digital resources for colleagues to assist with new curriculum