What Music Teachers Can Learn From Coaches (and vice versa)

By |2023-02-14T13:15:29-05:00January 5th, 2023|Band, Choir, Inspiration, Orchestra, Stories, Teaching, Teaching Philosophy|

I have spent my entire life in the seemingly unrelated worlds of Sports and Music.  Thanks to High School Musical, the narrative that a teenager could live comfortably within the dual identities of Artist and Athlete in the mid-2000s was all but shattered.  However, with the anthem of [...]

Research to Practice: Informal Music Teaching

By |2021-02-02T07:35:12-05:00February 2nd, 2021|Research to Practice|

Action research is a great way to break into thinking about ways to improve what you teach, how you teach, and how students learn. I would even go as far as to suggest that most teachers are already doing this in their classrooms. Action research doesn’t have to be formal or fancy. It just starts with a spark of wonder or an idea. [...]

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