People learn best when they feel safe to be fully themselves. More than ever, contemporary education research points to the need for social-emotional learning to be fully integrated into the classroom environment, which now extends and applies to remote learning.
Like many people across the United States and the world right now, I find myself tasked with the challenge of supervising the learning of my children while working full-time from home.
Continuing to teach music during school closure is a challenge, no doubt about it! Here’s a quick video activity you can put together for your students as a learning module.
So you’re an aspiring composer, hoping to make your mark in educational music publishing. You may be asking: “If I want to compose, how can I get started?” “How does someone actually get their foot in the door as a working composer?” “What does a composer need to do to become successful?”
To that end, I’d like to offer two perspectives: first, as a somewhat “new-to-the-scene” female composer, I’d like to share a little bit about how I found success writing for choirs; and secondly, as an editor, I’d love to offer some insight about how new music is selected for publication, and how composers can put their best foot forward when submitting.