THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, March 17, 2023 Page 11 At Linden STEAM Academy, music makes the world sound better Malden Public Schools fi rst-year music educator ‘pays forward’ her passion to students in new Music Club By Steve Freker J udith Albert says she has had a passion for music and all that it off ers for as long as she can remember. A fi rst-year Music Educator at Malden’s Linden STEAM Academy, she is already passing along her zeal for the musical arts to her young students. Albert is ready, willing and able to “pay it forward” when it comes to instilling a love of music and sound to her Linden K-4 music students. She said she fi nds the Malden Public Schools a rich environment for teaching and learning. “These students are so enthusiastic about music, and I love working with them,” Albert said during an afterschool Music Club she was hosting at the school for students in grades Kindergarten to Grade 2. The Linden Music Club also includes students in Grades 3 and 4, and the two groups switch off every Monday afternoon, for an hour-long session after school. Fell in love with music as a young girl When Albert was a student herself in the greater Miami, Fla., region, she fell in love with music as a young girl, in both performing on musical instruments – the piano in particular – and singing. She both played the piano and sang in her church, growing up, as well as performing informally in other diff erent venues. The year before graduation, she got lucky, due to the kindness and ingenuity of a passionate music teacher she was fortunate to take classes with in her high school years. This was the same teacher who “basically gave me all of my piano lessons for free. My family could not have afforded the going rate for lessons, and we were so blessed to have been treated so generously by Mr. Davis.” Albert said the Everglades High School teacher’s largesse continued the summer before her senior year of high school. “My teacher loaded up a bunch of us who wanted to pursue music studies in college into a passenger van and we went on a tour of Florida colleges,” Albert recalled. “We checked out many great colleges and had one goal in mind – to try and get a scholarship. Myself and others were successful and my college career began.” Grateful for the assistance she received in college search “It would not have happened 425r Broadway, Saugus Located adjacent to Kohls Plaza Route 1 South in Saugus at the intersection of Walnut St. We are on MBTA Bus Route 429 781-231-1111 ‘BOOMWHACKER’ CREW: Manning the tubular percussion Boomwhackers are kindergarten class members of Linden STEAM Academy’s Music Club. (Steve Freker Photos/Malden Advocate) We are a Skating Rink with Bowling Alleys, Arcade and two TV’s where the ball games are always on! PUBLIC SKATING SCHEDULE 12-8 p.m. Sunday Monday Tuesday MUSICAL MAGIC: Linden STEAM Academy K-4 Music Educator Judith Albert (left) is shown with a student, Silas (right) during a Music Club session. The first-year Malden Public Schools teacher is “paying it forward” due the help and support she received on her journey as a student toward a career in music education. She is now pursuing s Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA). (Steve Freker Photo/Malden Advocate) SHAKING A LEG: Silas shakes a leg at the Linden Music Club with Judith Albert. ty in West Palm Beach, Fla., on to Mercer University in Georgia and then, way up north for the fi rst time in her life, to one of the most well-known schools in the world, the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she obtained a master’s degree. After a few years teaching music at two Massachusetts charter schools – grades 5-8 Pioneer Charter and grades 1-8 at Sacred Heart STEM School – AlMUSIC | SEE PAGE 20 $9.00 Price includes Roller Skates Rollerblades/inline skates $3.00 additional cost Private Parties 7:30-11 p.m. $10.00 Price includes Roller Skates Adult Night 18+ Only Wednesday Thursday Friday Everyone must pay admission after 6 p.m. Private Parties Private Parties 4-11 p.m. Saturday 12-11 p.m. $9.00 $9.00 Everyone must pay admission after 6 p.m. Sorry No Checks - ATM on site Roller skate rentals included in all prices Inline Skate Rentals $3.00 additional BIRTHDAY & PRIVATE PARTIES AVAILABLE www.roller-world.com Read The Advocate online: www.advocatenews.net JUDITH ALBERT STEPPING UP: Singing along or showing a few impromptu dance steps, Linden Music Educator Judith Albert keeps the Music Club fl owing in her classroom. at all without that first scholarship,” said Albert, the daughter of immigrants to the United States and the fi rst of her immediate family to have attended college. Albert’s studies took her from Palm Beach Atlantic Universi
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