Think for a moment, what motivates you to achieve goals and complete tasks? What motivates you to practice?
SmartMusic Repertoire Update: June 2019
We are continually growing the SmartMusic repertoire library. This month we’ve added several large ensemble and solo titles.
Our Success Story: Contest Winners
Our Success Story was a contest created to celebrate the success students are achieving using SmartMusic. To participate, educators were asked to share short essays about their students’ SmartMusic experience.
Avoiding Complacent Teaching: The Importance of Mentorship
Mentorship is often overlooked in our profession. The right mentoring experience can mean the difference between a mediocre teacher and a great teacher.
Music Ed Mentor Podcast #049: Conferences on Your Couch and On-Demand PD
The underlying theme for this week’s very short podcast is innovation, something that we both love and hate in music education.
Promoting an LGBT+ Inclusive Classroom
A teacher’s moral disposition and personal bias often dictate the degree of inclusion demonstrated in the classroom. Unfortunately, at an institutional level, the term diversity is almost exclusively measured by race, cultural identity, and socio-economic status (SES).
Make Music Day is Friday, June 21, 2019!
June 21 is Make Music Day, a worldwide celebration of music. It’s an opportunity for you, your students, and everyone in your community to make music together, so spread the word!
Music Ed Mentor Podcast #048: Setting Realistic Expectations
Chris Munce is an accomplished choral performer, conductor, educator, clinician, and arts administrator. He’s also the host of the Choralosophy podcast.
Retention in Band from Middle School to High School
Sometimes I am amazed at where I ended up in music considering that I almost quit band after my eighth-grade year.
Featured Content: Habits of a Successful Choral Musician
This past February, at the 2019 TMEA convention in San Antonio, GIA Publications announced the release of Habits of a Successful Choral Musician by Eric Wilkinson and Scott Rush.