{"id":244309,"date":"2017-01-12T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=244309"},"modified":"2017-01-12T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:00:19","slug":"saipan-school-gets-new-music-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-school-gets-new-music-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan school gets a new music teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244318\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Anne-McCaslin-mug-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"McCaslin\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-244318\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McCaslin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan Community School announced yesterday the hiring of Anne McCaslin, who will be the new concert band leader and elementary music teacher. Music is a very important part of the full education our students at SCS receive due to the proven academic, social, and personal benefits that music education provides. <\/p>\n<p>McCaslin was born in San Jose, California, and raised in Spokane, Washington. She has an extensive background in both instrumental and choral music, having had ensembles showcased at such venues as Downtown Disney in Disney World, and various venues in Seoul, Sokcho, and Gyeongju, South Korea.  She attended college at Washington State University, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Music Education and a separate bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology.   <\/p>\n<p>While teaching at SCS, McCaslin will be responsible for directing the SCS concert band for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced band classes. In addition she will be teaching elementary music for Kindergarten through 5th grade, teaching ukulele to grades 3rd to 5th. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited to be working at Saipan Community School. I look forward to continuing and expanding upon the tradition of excellence SCS is known for, as well as learning from my students as I teach them,\u201d McCaslin said. <\/p>\n<p>Thus far on Saipan, McCaslin has enjoyed pounding mochi at the Mochitsuki Festival, paddle boarding, hiking through the jungle, and playing Ultimate Frisbee. McCaslin also enjoys the island\u2019s beaches and beautiful, welcoming people. <\/p>\n<p>In future endeavors McCaslin hopes to continue teaching music, while continuing her studies in psychology. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Community School announced yesterday the hiring of Anne McCaslin, who will be the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":244318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15083,1034,15084,15085],"class_list":["post-244309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-music-education","tag-scs","tag-ultimate-frisbee","tag-washington-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}