San Diego Union-Tribune
Ulli Reiner of Poway and Anne Fennell of Vista among 25 nominees for Music Educator award
Anne Fennell, pictured leading a drumming class for adults on the East Coast this summer. CREDIT: Anne Fennell
Fennell said she was “blown away” by the Grammy news this week.
“I’m so honored and humbled because I know there are thousands of great teachers,” said Fennell. “It’s great for the students. Their name is in this, really. It’s because of them that this all happened.”
An Oceanside mother of two, Fennell has been teaching music for 25 years in the Vista Unified School District, which named her Teacher of the Year in 2006. She teaches three levels of steel drum and music composition at Mission Vista High, which opened in 2009. Before that, she taught K-8 students at Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, where she founded the middle school percussion ensemble ZOOM.
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