The Art of Teaching Beginning Band
Greg recently commented on an article my site. As I typically do, I went to look at his blog Total Music Education and see what […]
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The First Ever Music Education Blog Carnival
Welcome to the very first edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! I have sorted through the submissions, weeded through them some, and now present […]
The Music Education Blog Carnival
On July 1st, 2008 the very first Music Education Blog Carnival was featured on So You Want To Teach? This is something that Joseph Pisano […]
Audio: 03/28/08
I recently got a little $20 voice recorded device for my iPod because I figured it might make good quality recordings of class. I was […]
Top 10 Things I Learned This Year At TMEA
I returned home from the Texas Music Educators Association clinic and convention this weekend. It was different TMEA experience for me than what I have […]
Clinicians
In the band world, we have a whole concept of bringing in a clinician. This is basically a chance for us to get another, more […]
100 MusEduBloggers by 2009
I have been blogging about teaching for a while. I came across a post by Joseph Pisano (the original post is here) where he is […]
Rethinking The Systems
I have spent much of last week and this week with one of the high school band directors thoroughly analyzing our marching fundamentals for the […]
The Vitality of Collaboration
Most of the band staff went to lunch today. We spent about an hour and a half at a pizza buffet, mostly talking and not […]
Finishing Strong
A band director I used to work with said this. The concept is that success comes from finishing something well. It’s easy to start something […]
8 Methods For Recruiting People Into Your Program
As a band director dealing with beginning band, a substantial part of my energy each year is spent on recruiting 5th graders to be in […]