School teacher in our City and music students need your help: Ms. Tiffany Cox and the sax section at Lake Worth High.

UPDATE!

Find out what happened below.

First, the blog post from earlier today. . .

Some very sobering information: more than ¾ of Ms. Cox’s students are from low-income households.

She is still short of her funding goal. The sax section needs reeds, straps, harnesses, ligatures, and pretty much all those items music students need to learn how to play the saxophone. To learn more and maybe help out and contribute there is a link below.



“Ms. Tiffany Cox is the band director at Lake Worth High School . . . She has been passionately devoted to rebuilding the band program at Lake Worth High and returning it to its former glory.”

—Lake Worth Herald, July 12th, 2018: Nomination of Ms. Cox for national 2019 Grammy Music Educator Award for “commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools.”


About her funding project, Ms. Cox wrote:


My students need reeds, ligatures and neck straps to prepare our saxophone section for the school year.
     At our high school, we are fortunate to have an incredibly diverse student body. Our band students are incredibly driven young people who are working to become leaders and valuable members of our community through music.
     We are working together to create a culture that values music education, and all that music can teach us.
     We take our natural skills and talents and put them to work in our band program. We learn from each other and we teach others to love music.

UPDATE:

Ms. Cox’s project has been fully funded! She said, “Thank you so much for completing our project! We are so lucky to have your support!”

To see the funding page and the list of “Where Your Donation Goes” click on this link. Thank You to all the generous contributors.


For those of you who missed the news in the Herald about Lake Worth High School two weeks ago. . .

Events, community news, school news,

club meetings and so much more:

Click on this link to see the latest front page news. Herald is still just 50! To contact the editor call 561-585-9387 or by email: Editor@lwherald.com

Three excerpts from the feature news story about Lake Worth High School:

Across the United States, 2800 music educators were nominated for the 2019 Grammy Music Educator Award. Presented by the Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Museum, the Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools.
     Out of the 2800 nominees, 188 have been chosen as quarterfinalists. Five of the 188 are from Palm Beach County and two are right here in Lake Worth! Even more amazing is they are both from the same school! Mr. John Weatherspoon and Ms. Tiffany Cox are the chorus and band directors at Lake Worth Community High School.
     Mr. Weatherspoon, the chorus director, just completed his 26th year at Lake Worth High School. He was hired in 1992 by Mr. Dave Cantley, principal. Weatherspoon has created a legacy of excellence in choral music education at Lake Worth High. This year, his chorus received a superior rating at their music performance assessment and even brought home a first place trophy from the southern star music festival in Atlanta, Georgia.

and. . .

     Ms. Tiffany Cox is the band director at Lake Worth High School and just completed her seventh year of teaching though this is her first at Lake Worth High. She has been passionately devoted to rebuilding the band program at Lake Worth High and returning it to its former glory. Her hard work has not gone unnoticed by our community and apparently by the Grammy Music Education Foundation as well.

and. . .

     Both Cox and Weatherspoon have submitted their applications to become semifinalists. Out of the 188 quarterfinalists, 25 will be selected in September. After the semifinalist round, 10 finalists will be selected and one educator will receive the Grammy Music Educator Award. 
     Best of luck to Ms. Cox and Mr. Weatherspoon! Lake Worth is rooting for you!