It is our extreme pleasure to welcome AUTHOR Friends: Kim Ankney & Dan Healy onto the show to chat about their new book: Music Discovery:...

In this episode, I go over 8 SUPER EASY Hacks for drastically improving your virtually teaching! Like so many things in teaching,...

Welcome to EPISODE 30 of #MusicEdLove! This episode is coming out via special request for those of you preparing for Assessment! Here are...

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Welcome back to an exciting new school year! In this podcast, we aim to get you off to a great start with a few overarching goals for...

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In this episode, we will have Tony Burriss speaking on Building a Community of Music Lovers, on the journey from band director to West...

In Episode 1, I will give you tips and tricks for eliminating boredom during those repetitious moments in class and making sure your...

Every day, many anxious students tap their feet, drum their fingers, and hum throughout “core” classes, anticipating the much favored...

Between my wordpress & tumblr followers, we are at last at 50!  I am just thrilled with this number and cannot wait to see it move on up....

Sweaty hands.  Shaking knees. Bow perfectly rosined.  Stan is ready for his audition.  He has worked countless hours, practicing,...

Okay, in favor of being parsimonious (per the title of my post…) this is going to be a quick post tonight.  I just want to reiterate to...

Are you already writing up your lesson plans for the 15-16 school year?  I know how stressful this time of year can be, so in this post,...

This past week, a few friends and I were chatting about various ways to increase students’ listening skills and I thought perhaps I would...

I spent this evening smiling, laughing, and listening to amazing stories and jokes by other musicians and music teachers.  I love to...

Sorry for the lack of more academic writing this week.  I am in a workshop all week and am getting in late every night.  So I just don’t...

In each year of teaching music, I have always had at least one student who was interested in majoring in music education.  Many of them...

The need for prison reform within our country is a well-supported and documented void within our social system.  While many efforts have...

Today I was super inspired by a post made by @thecandidchoraldirector  She was talking about the school year starting up again and it...

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