In June of 2014 the National Coalition for Core Art Standards released the new Core Music Standards. The overarching goal of these new standards is to foster Music Literacy defined as the ability to understand a medium and communicate in that medium.
We all should have a mission, right? In the last few years, my mission shifted from teaching students to love music, to teaching teachers to teach students to love music.
The best way to build better sight-readers? Make them sight-read!
Of course, teachers know that’s easier said than done, especially when students aren’t physically present in a classroom.
To all my fellow orchestra, band, chorus and music teacher colleagues,
How are you all? It’s crazy to think that it’s June!
This week’s episode recaps a webinar I recently hosted that wasn’t really a webinar at all! Not a lesson, not a lecture—it was a work session.
Not long ago, I met with a family to talk about beginning piano lessons. I chatted with the parents for several minutes and as our discussion drew to a close, their eight-year-old son exclaimed, “Mom!
Music is an essential part of every child’s education. Truthfully, it’s a fundamental part of the human experience. Scholars, poets, and philosophers throughout history have praised music as being one of the highest forms of art.
Learning to play a musical instrument is hard. However, my experience as a middle school orchestra teacher led me to discover that most adolescent musicians believe that learning to play an instrument is easy.
Have you been struggling to get funding for your growing music program? Though schools and districts have the bulk of the responsibility for providing the needs of school music programs, often they fall short of the mark.
As of June 30, 2020 New SmartMusic will be supported in the iPad Safari browser. It will have the same functionality as the New SmartMusic iPad app and increased benefits such as the ability to download WAV files and open shared links.